We woke up at first light. Today was going to be long and we were going to get moving as soon as possible. In any other situation I would have strangled someone for waking me up this early, but I was eager to go. We all put on our armor, or in Noble’s case his coat and left the hotel.

Hermes was waiting for us by the bridge. He was accompanied by a yellow unicorn mare. She was very young and had a hypodermic needle cutie mark. “You guys ready to go?” Hermes asked as we approached.

Noble looked at the mare, then turned back to Hermes. “Who’s this?”

“I’m Cure, I work at the clinic with Hermes.” She said with a polite nod.

“She’s a Remedium trainee.” Hermes corrected. “She’s up here learning how to be a doctor and well on her way I might add.” Cure gave a slight blush to Hermes’ complement.

“Let me rephrase my question. What is she doing here?” Noble gave Hermes an annoyed glare.

“She’s coming with us. We wanna be able to grab as many supplies as we can when we get to the hospital.” Noble went to open his mouth but Hermes cut him off. “I know, we’ll be quick, and don’t worry, she won’t slow us down at all.”

Noble sighed. “Fine, lets get going.”

The bridge was a giant metal structure with a paved road going down the middle. The river it crossed over stretched all the way through the city. From the middle of the bridge you could see all the way down and past the city is both directions. Looking west it wasn’t hard to spot the west bridge. Another massive metal path over the water, it looked small in the distance. We would have to make our way to it.

“So you’re Hermes’ student then?” Rose asked Cure as we started across the bridge.

She gave another nod. “Yeah, I’m in Trottingham to finish up my training. Once I’m done up here I’m heading back to Manehatten to officially join Remedium.”

“I’m glad to see there are ponies like you two.” Said Rose

“I just want to help whoever I can.”

At the end of the bridge was a large gated wall that spanned the width of the bridge. A couple of guards sat on top looking out onto the northern part of the city.

“Excuse me!” Noble shouted to them. “We’d like to get through here.”

One of the guards, a unicorn with a shaved mane, cocked an eyebrow. “Are you sure about that?”

Noble gave him a nod and the unicorn shrugged. “Alright then.” His horn lit up and the gate swung open. “Be careful out there.” He called to us as he closed it behind us.

Immediately I could see the difference between the two halves of the city. The buildings here ,while still tall, were much shorter and in much worse condition. Directly in front of the bridge was a completely collapsed building surrounded by two others that looked like the could go at anytime. The roads were so broken up that they were more a series of pot-holes than actual roads. There was more foliage this side of the bridge. The roads were wide and separated by lines of trees, all dead and blackened now, along with some old shrubs.

Noble made us keep a quick pace. I kept the EFS up to detect anything before we got to it, but Noble kept an eye out as he lead us. Hermes had no trouble keeping pace with the rest of us, his leg gave off a “Tink” with each step. Cure stayed by his side as we made our way to the hospital.

As we moved farther into the city the air started to take on a dark green hue and my Pip-Buck started to click. The area was radioactive, it wasn’t a lot of radiation but it was more than I was comfortable with. “I think we should find another way around. We’re getting more radiation as we go this way.”

“Rivet, are you seeing that?” Asked Deadbolt.

I turned my head to where he was facing. Two red lights were moving quickly around us. “Yeah, I do.”

“Noble, we might have trouble over here.”

Just as Deadbolt said that a horrible blood-curdling scream came from the direction of the lights. Two massive ponies came rushing around the corner. Both of them were hairless and their skin was a sickening yellow that was stretched tight over their massive muscles. One carried a plank of wood with rusty nails sticking out of it, the other one tossed a grenade as they came into view.

“Watch out!” Hermes yelled and we dodge out of the way of the grenade.

“BOOM!”

Pulling out my pistol, I turned to face the monstrous ponies. They were already on top of us by the time I got to face them. I flew into SATS and fired three shots, nearly point blank , into the first ones head.

“Bang, Bang, Bang!”

He reeled back in pain, but recovered quickly and turned to give me a powerful kick with his hind legs. The hit knocked the air out of me and I collapsed on the pavement. The massive pony turned and lifted up onto his hind legs to bring his front hooves down on me. Just before he stomped on me Deadbolt leapt over me, tackling him and stabbing into his neck repeatedly with his knife. The yellow monster fell, blood spraying from the holes in its neck.

“You okay?” Deadbolt asked as he jumped off the corpse.

“I’ll be fine.” I said, standing up and trying to catch my breath.

The one with the nail-board rushed at Hermes and Cure. Hermes pulled out a massive revolver. “Bang!” He shot at the beast’s leg. The bullet tore straight through but it did almost nothing to slow him down.

Rose grabbed her energy pistol and fired. “Kzoo!” A red laser shot out the magical weapon. The yellow monster screamed as the laser left a burning scar on its shoulder.

Noble unslung his rifle. “Boom!” With expert skill he sent a single shot right into its forehead and out the other side. Blood and brains exploded out the back of its head and left red splotches on the ground behind it.

“Umm, guys…” Rose started, looking out the way the monstrous ponies had come from. More red lights began to appear on the EFS “We got more coming!”

“What the hell are those things? ”Deadbolt asked as he saw the lights.

“Super Mutants, we need to get out of here!” Hermes shouted.

Noble nodded and threw his rifle onto his back. “I agree, we shouldn’t fight them. We need to go.”

We turned and ran. The mutants weren’t going to let us get away easy. Every time I turned my head back they were a little bit closer. I counted at least five more, one of them wearing makeshift metal armor and held a sledgehammer.

“Quick, through here.” Noble shouted. There was a hole the side of building, big enough for a regular pony to fit through. The massive Super Mutants would have no chance to fit through.

Noble turned, pulled out his pistol and began to fire. Hermes was the first through the hole. I stopped to help Noble hold them off. One of the Super Mutants carried a rifle and began to fire. Cure and Deadbolt rushed through the hole in the wall.

Noble and I started to unload our pistols towards the mutant with the rifle. It took both of us putting several shot into him to take him down. Just before Noble’s final shot, the Mutant fired. I could feel the bullet rip into my right shoulder. “Shit! Rivet!” Noble shouted as he saw me fall.

I dropped my pistol and fell onto the ground clutching at the bleeding hole. Rose and Deadbolt grabbed me and pulled me into the building. Noble quickly followed us in. Hermes and Cure had found a book shelf and pushed it over. They used to block off the hole just after Noble entered.

The mutants shouted and banged on the other side of the case. Deadbolt and Noble turned and braced themselves against it.

Rose swung her saddle-bag off and grabbed a healing potion, but Hermes stopped her before she could put it to my mouth. “It’ll only be a temporary fix if we don’t get the bullet out.” The White unicorn said as he levitated some long tweezers from his bag. “Rivet, hold still, this won’t hurt much.”

He drove the tweezers into the burning wound in my shoulder. “ARG!”

“I lied.” Pain shot through my entire leg as he finally grabbed onto the bullet. “Okay, one, two, three!” He yanked the bullet out sending another shock of fire into the wound.

Rose handed me the potion and I shakily put to my mouth. As I drank the fire in my foreleg settled and the wound stitched itself back together. I laid panting for a few moments.

The shouting on the other side of the bookcase stopped. “I think they gave up.” Deadbolt said, slowly standing back from the case.

Noble let himself relax for a moment. “I think you're right.” He said with a relieved sigh. “Rivet, you okay?”

I gave my foreleg an experimental shake. “Yeah, I should be good.” I was still panting and shaking, but the wound was healed.

“This was a stupid idea.” Deadbolt complained.

Nobled nodded in agreement. “Yeah it was. Little late to stop now.”

“If Rivet’s alright, can we please just get moving.” Hermes said. He had moved over to the door to take a look at the building we found ourselves in. The room we had entered through looked like some kind of office. A desk with a broken terminal was flipped over in the corner and an old bulletin board hung on the wall. It still had a few faded pictures and notes pinned to it. The rest were scattered around the room.

The door lead into a hallway lined with more offices. At the end of the hall was a large reception area. Skeletons of ponies laid near chairs and over the front desk. Where they had been when the mega spells hit.

According to the EFS, the way out through the front was clear. I took one step out before Noble yelled. “Rivet stop!”

I froze and looked at him confused.

“Look down.”

A few feet away in front of the main door was a small disk with a glowing yellow light on top. “Thats a mine, take another step and it’ll activate.”

I slowly began to back up. “Thanks, how do we get out if the can’t get close to that?”

“Back up and get ready to run.” He said as he produced his pistol.

“Bang! BOOM!”

The mine exploded leaving a black mark on the pavement and we took off. The Super Mutants couldn’t have gotten far and they probably heard that. We followed the river as much as possible without staying next to it. We made sure we could see it between buildings as we moved. Collapsed buildings and pockets of radiation were making it a lot harder to navigate through the city and slowed us down.

We ran for about an hour before we decided that it would be okay to take a short break. We hadn’t stopped running sense the run in with the mutants and all needed a breather. We found a building that was mostly collapsed, except for a few pillars and parts of the second floor. Noble climbed up to one of the few pieces of the second floor that was left to keep an eye out. Everyone else slumped down in the most comfortable spot they could find.

“Rivet, how far are we from the bridge?” Noble asked from his perch.

I opened up the map on my Pip-Buck. I wasn’t a great judge of this kind of thing, but I could tell the constant running had sped us up a little. “Still pretty far. Maybe two hours if we keep this pace.”

Deadbolt gave a sigh. “Great…”

“Any sign of the mutants?” I called to Noble.

He climbed back down and set his rifle to the side as he relaxed. “Nothin’, I think we lost them.”

“Still, we should probably not rest for too long.” Hermes said. “There's probably more around.”

Noble nodded to him, then took a large drink from one of his water bottles. I took a drink from mine and heard the click of the radiation as I drank. That reminded me, we had been running through a radiated area earlier. I open up the medical data section on my Pip-Buck. the radiation meter was dangerously close to the first tick mark.

“Alright, we should get moving.” Noble said reslinging his rifle. we all repacked and started back along the river. We were now staying alongside the river. The water was a sickly green and probably radioactive. It was about a ten foot drop from the walkway to the water.

I could see the west bridge slowly getting closer. We were about halfway, but we still had another stop. “Hermes, how far are we from the museum?”

He looked around for a minute, getting a bearing on the area. “We shouldn’t be too far. If those old maps are good, I think we should be able to see it here in a few pretty soon.”

He wasn’t wrong. Soon enough The Museum of Medical Sciences came into view. It was a massive building, one of the bigger ones on this side of the river. You could clearly see where the Museum ended and the Hospital began. The museum half was a brown with pillars lining the entrance. A border of white bricks surrounded the outside, doors and windows. The Hospital section was a sterile white. The entrance had a ramp that was covered. The ceiling over the ramp had collapsed, blocking the entrance to the Hospital. We would have to go in through the museum.

The entrance to the museum was a single massive room with a hallway going out from each side. Red velvet separators that would have formed the lines were knocked over and thrown about the room. The front desk seemed untouched, some of the terminals still gave off a soft green glow against the wall behind it.

“This place is huge.” Rose said looking up at the high ceiling, which must have been three stories high.

“It’s also really creepy, can we please hurry.” Cure looked nervous about being here.

The hospital was off to the right side of the building. The hall had a sign that said “Today’s Medicine” though it was faded and hard to read. A picture hung on the wall as we entered the hall. It was of a yellow pegasus mare. She had a soft smile and was waving a hoof into the museum welcoming you. “The Ministry of Peace welcomes you.” was written on it. I recognized the mare, she was one of the mares from the picture of Pinkie Pie. She looked older on the poster, slight wrinkles had started to form under her eyes.

“Rivet? You coming or what?” Deadbolt called seeing me stopped at the poster.

“Oh, yeah, sorry!”

The hall opened into another large room. The room was full of glass display cases set in rows. Each had a small plaque describing what was in the case, or in some cases what had been in the case. Most of them were full of small medical tools.

“Some of these things are kinda scary lookin’” Noted Noble. I agreed, many of the tools seemed to be various blades or painful looking clamps. One particular tool that was used to hold rib cages open looked particularly disturbing. I was not a fan of this place already. Hermes and Cure however were stopping and reading most of the plaques with noticeable interest. The disturbing tools combined with the silence of being the only ponies here made it easily the creepiest place the wasteland had showed me.

“Hey Rivet, come look at this.” Rose was standing next to a bookshelf full of various medical books. “Think any of these might come in handy?”

I shrugged, I wasn’t a doctor and probably wouldn’t understand half of the words in those old books. Rose had a crash course from Daisy on wasteland medicine while we were in Marefield but it was far from decent training. “I don’t know, maybe.”

One of the books did catch my eye as something that might be very useful. A book on breaks and fractures and ways to treat them. Rose put it into her pack and we continued through the museum.

The next room was full of medical robots. Personally, I wouldn’t want any of them working on me. “The Auto-Doc” read one of the plaques. It was a terrifying machine. You laid on a steel bed while a machines that consisted of a small screen and keyboard and three mechanical arms, each wielding a different tool, performed various operations on you. Another version was meant for you to be standing and had the machine in the top of a large metal tube that you would stand inside. Probably the worst one looked like a giant floating spider. Each of its “Legs” had a different tool and it came equipped with what looked to be a buzz saw.

“Who would be insane enough to let one of these things operate on them?” Asked Deadbolt as he examined the various machines.

Each room was just a bit worse than the last. The next was dark, the only lights being small ones that illuminated that walkway and yellow spot lights that shined down on various skeletons and what I hoped to Celestia weren’t real ponies that had been stuffed.

“I really don’t like it here.” Rose said, trying to say as far from any of the room’s exhibits as possible.

“I know what you mean.” Nobled answered.

A large sign hung over the exit to the room. “Medicine Of Tomorrow.” It was a single large room, only a few exhibits were on display. A large portion of the room was taken up by a small theater that had been set up. The screen was cracked, but a loop of some old movie was playing. I assumed it explained what some of the machines in the room where meant to do, but the speakers just gave off short, quiet bursts of static.

One of the exhibits was missing. Hermes was standing in front of the empty display area reading the description of what should be there. “A stasis pod.” He said as I approached.

“I’m sorry?”

“That’s what this was supposed to be. Says here it was meant to pretty much stop the body while surgeons worked. Would have made it a lot easier to perform complicated surgeries if you didn’t have to worry about the patient bleeding out.”

I looked up at the empty space. “Yeah, wonder where it is.”

“Would have been a prototype. Probably never actually arrived.” He said with a sigh. “Come on, we have to be near the entrance to the hospital.”

The actual entrance to the hospital was harder to find than we thought it would be. It wasn’t in plain view, but instead hidden behind on of the larger displays. The transition from museum to hospital was less than seamless. One side of the door was a dull brown with soft lighting and carpet, the hospital was white tile with a green line going down the middle, white walls and flickering overhead lights.

We came out in a long hall lined with rooms. Each had a window to look in at the patient that would be occupying it. Most of them were pitch black or had flickering lights.

“Okay, where would the supplies be Hermes. This place give me the creeps and I’d like to get out as fast as possible.” Noble said moving a little slower than usual.

“There are a few places I want to check. The ICU, the nurses station and surgery. There should also be a few closets with supplies throughout the place.”

Deadbolt sighed. “Fantastic, this is gonna take forever.”

We found the nurses station on this floor first. A counter with more terminals in front of a set of filing cabinets and a closet. A skeleton with torn scrubs laid behind the counter. Hermes slowly stepped around it as he moved to the closet. He opened the door and slowly peaked in. Then he let out a sharp gasp that nearly had us all pulling out our weapons.

“No way!”

“What is it, Hermes?” Cure asked before the rest of us could.

“Come look.” He moved out and we all stepped in to look in. Shelves completely stocked with supplies filled the closet. “If the whole hospital is stocked like this then we’ll have no trouble getting some of the others to help us retrieve it.” Hermes was nearly jumping with excitement. Even this much would be enough to help a lot of ponies.

“Thank Celestia.” Rose let out a sigh of relief. “I was worried we might be coming here for nothing.”

Even Deadbolt had a slight smile. “I guess we’re not wasting our time here then. We still have a lot more to search though.”

Hermes cleared his throat. “Right, right, Cure, grab some supplies and lets keep going.” Hermes and Cure partially filled their saddle-bags and we continued through the hospital.

We were moving to a more populated section of the hospital. The rooms that had working lights almost all had the skeleton or rotting corpse of a pony in the bed. Most of them were attached to various machines. A single heartbeat monitor was still working and gave off a high pitched whine as it read a flat line.

*RRAAGGH!* A gargled scream came from one of the rooms and a ghoul slammed into the window and started pounding on it. I reached for my pistol, that’s when I realized I dropped it earlier. “Shit.” The door was closed and I think it lacked the capacity to open it. The scream had us all draw our weapons on it, nearly made my heart rip out of my chest.

I gave a sigh as I realized it wasn’t getting out of there anytime soon.

“What are we gonna do about it?” Deadbolt asked. “Shooting might attract attention.”

Noble put his pistol up the glass at head level with the ghoul. “If there is anything else in here it probably already knows we’re here. We didn’t exactly stay quiet at the nurses station. Besides are far as ghouls go, I doubt there are too many here.” *Bang!*

“What’s wrong Rivet?” Rose asked seeing looking annoyed.

“I dropped my pistol back when those mutants shot me.”

“I’m sure we’ll find another one for you. You still got your shotgun. Just gonna have to settle for that for a while.” Noble said

The ICU was just around the corner. It was an open area, sectioned off by curtains. It looked a lot like the Remedium clinic at The Junction. Most of the beds here were filled with bodies and what appeared to be the corpses of doctors littered the room. There were closets on either side of the room. Both of them were full of supplies and tools. The more we searched this place, the more I was happy we came here.

Hermes turned back to us with a wide grin. “Okay, just one more place to check then we can get out of here.” We all took some of the supplies this time. There was clearly enough to go around here and while we wanted to give as much as we could to Hermes, we were still going to need some.

We made our way to surgery. The white walls transitioned to a muted green as we entered the wing. There were a lot less rooms on this side of the hospital. Most of them were large rooms with smaller viewing rooms attached. They all had an Auto-Doc attached to the ceiling that hung over a bed in the middle of the room.

The lights had completely failed as we went further in. We had to navigate by the lights on our Pip-Bucks. “Hermes, do you know where you're going?” I asked.

“Umm, I think so. It’s hard to tell. Maybe we can find a breaker and get these lights back on.”

Moving through the dark surgery wing was nerve wracking but we kept moving farther in. The occasional skeleton came out of the darkness as we progressed.

*Clang!* We spun around to see Noble holding his hooves up to a cart full of tools, ready to keep it upright if it fell. “Sorry.” We all let out our held breaths and kept walking.

There was a loud whirring sound and the lights slowly came to life. “What the hell?” Deadbolt said looking up at the now working lights.

“The generators are probably just starting to fail. Hospitals all had their own magical generators just in case the city lost power. The ones powering this wing but be on their last legs.” Hermes explained.

Once the lights had come back it didn’t take us long to find the surgery supply room. It was a much larger room than the previous places we checked and had even more supplies. It even had a more portable Auto-Doc than the ones in all of the surgery rooms had.

“This is amazing. I can’t believe all this stuff has just been sitting here.” Rose said as she sifted through some of the boxes of supplies.

“Most of it is still in great condition. This is the biggest medical cache I’ve ever seen.” Hermes said excited.

“Okay, we found that the place has a giant stockpile. I’m happy, really, but can we please leave now.” Noble said.

“What’s wrong Noble? Don’t like hospitals?” Rose teased.

“This is my first time in one. Apparently not.”

Hermes and Cure filled the rest of their packs. “Thanks for bringing us here.” Cure said. “We can help so many ponies with all these supplies.”

Hermes nodded to her. “Okay, let’s get out of here.” The lights turned off almost on queue.

“Fantastic.” Sighed Deadbolt

Making our way back didn’t take us nearly as long. Even through the darkness we navigated the halls much faster. “I can’t wait to get back to Junction 26. Once the others see this they’ll get a team together in an instant to collect the rest.” Hermes said with a giant grin.

“I’m sure the entire Junction will be grateful to you four for getting us here.” Cure Said to the rest of us.

We almost made it back to the museum when Cure noticed another supply closet that we hadn’t checked. “Hold up, I wanna check this one too.”

She opened the door to a floating spider bot. The single light of its eye looking right at her. “Hold still while the doctor operates.” It said as it raised it’s saw blade.

Time seemed to slow as it happened. Everyone drew their weapons and took aim.Cure froze as the medical bot swung its arm down at her. We opened fire on the robot, but it was too late. The saw blade slammed into Cure’s head. Pieces of skull and brains flew into the air. Hermes dropped his gun as he saw his student’s head torn apart.

The robot ripped the blade out of the unicorn's skull and tossed her to the side as it came for us. I was one to bring it down. It closed in at me and I sent both barrels of the sawed-off into its eye.

Hermes rushed to yellow unicorn. She laid motionless, her eyes wide. “Please no, no. I...I can fix this. Just hold on.” Tears streamed from Hermes’ eyes has he held her. He swung his pack off and grabbed various tool and some potions.

Rose slowly put a hoof on his shoulder. “Hermes…”

He was shaking as held the tools and potions. He looked up at Rose, then back to his dead student and slumped down crying. We all stood quietly as he mourned over Cure. Rose wrapped him in a hug and he cried into her shoulder.

“I’m sorry Hermes.” Was all I could think to say.

“It’s not your fault.” He said through his sobs. But it was our fault. If it wasn’t for us she wouldn’t have been here. If it wasn’t for us she would have finished her training and went on to help countless ponies in the wasteland. If it wasn’t for us she wouldn’t have died. Hermes’ crying slowed as he got himself under control. He stood up slowly, shaking.

“We can go back to Junction 26. You don’t have to keep going.” Noble said.

Hermes shook his head. “No, no, I’m coming with you. I just need another minute.”

“We can’t bring her with us.”

“I know.”

He finally turned to face us. “When we get back, I’m getting some ponies to come get these supplies. and we’re coming back for her. She shouldn’t stay in this place.”

Hermes let us take her saddle-bag with us. We didn’t want to be disrespectful but anything we could carry back would be immediate help for the rest of Remedium. Deadbolt volunteered to carry it. He was a strong pony, he wouldn’t have much trouble carrying a second bag.

We were quiet making our way back through the museum. No one knew what to say. The trip back through seemed to take even longer than the first.

“We’re going to need to pick up the pace when we get out of here. Do you think you’ll be okay Hermes?” Noble asked as we passed into the entrance hall of the museum.

He gave a slow nod. “Yeah, I’ll be fine.” His eye were still red and tearing up.

He was right though, as we left we picked up back to our earlier pace. He didn’t have any trouble keeping up with us, but anyone could see that he was distracted, not that you could blame him. As we moved we ran into more radiation, my Pip-Buck began to click as we passed through. We tried to move as fast as possible to avoid exposure any longer than necessary.

I was starting to feel a bit nauseous by the time we got out of the area. “Hermes, what are the symptoms of radiation sickness?” I asked out of both concern for myself and to try to give him something to think about.

“Um… it depends on how bad you have it. What are you feeling?”

“A bit nauseous and getting tired.”

He thought for a moment. “Yeah, that sounds like minor poisoning. We’ll get you some Radaway when we get back to the clinic. You’ll feel sick for a while but as long as you're not vomiting blood, your hair isn’t falling out and your skin isn’t falling off, you’ll be fine.”

Oh great, my skin could fall off and I could go around looking like a ghoul. Assuming I didn’t just die. I could deal with the feeling like I could vomit anytime. I don’t think I could deal with that.

We made good time getting to the west bridge. It was late afternoon by the time we made it to north side of the bridge. This one was clear, no wall, no wagons. It was wide open, I had a terrible feeling about it.

We got about halfway across before that feeling came to fruition. “There they are!” Shouted a voice from behind us.

Four Super Mutants were rushing at us from the end of the bridge. The were lead by the armored one we had seen earlier, still wielding his sledgehammer. The others had various clubs and nail-boards.

Deadbolt pulled out a grenade and tossed it their way, payback for earlier. It flew right into the middle of the group, but one of them was fast. With a quick swing of his club he sent flying away before it exploded.

Hermes and Noble were quick to draw and start firing. The two dropped one of them before they had a chance to react. One came running at me. Just as he reached me I went into S.A.T.S.. I unloaded two shots from the shotgun into his head. It exploded sending gibbs flying backwards.

I jumped to the side as the mutant fell toward me. “Rivet look out!” I heard Noble shout. I turned to see the metal clad mutant feet away. I didn’t have time to reload. He swung his hammer and I tried to jump back.

My head exploded in pain and I fell to the ground clutching my skull. Blood ran down my face as I rolled and screamed. It felt like someone was sticking a power drill into my face. My ears rang and I couldn’t force my eyes to open.

“Rivet!” Rose screamed and started firing on the mutant that hit me

I could barely hear the fight. The pain in my head was the only think in the world then. Everything slowly faded as I blacked out from the pain.

Author's Note

Once again special thanks to Snowfall1775 for helping editing.