C.O.L.T.S II

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"PIP HOLD HIM DOWN!" Soarin yelled to the pony from Trottingham as he attempted to restrain Blitz.

"I'M TRYING!" Pip said as Shadow kicked Pip across the room. The COLT-II's had been called in to help restrain the COLT-I's so Twilight could perform the memory spell but the original COLTS weren't exactly compliant with this. It had become nothing short of a madhouse. Nearly a dozen COLT-II's and fifty royal guards were needed to subdue the COLT-I's.

"LET ME GO!" Autumn yelled as Skullcrusher, Featherweight, and several royal guards held him down. Autumn was violently thrashing around and it wouldn't be long before he broke free.

"TWILIGHT HURRY!" Spike cried as he struggled to hold down Deadeye. Twilight's horn began to glow as she approached Deadeye who was violently thrashing to get free. He snorted at her with an evil eye. She smiled gently as she gently tapped Deadeye with her horn. Deadeye suddenly saw his life flash before his eyes as Discord's spell was broken.

Born in Fillydelphia

Raised by royal guard

Captain of COLTS Omega

Son of Colonel Striper

Lover of Twilight Sparkle.

"Twi-Twilight?" Deadeye asked himself as Twilight used the spell on Autumn, Blitz, and Shadow.

"Deadeye! Is it?" Twilight asked as she got close to his face. Twilight suddenly felt hooves wrapped around her as Deadeye embraced her tightly.

"I MISSED YOU!" Deadeye said hugging the unicorn. Twilight smiled as she hugged back.

"What in the buck just happened?" Autumn said rubbing his head as his memories flooded back to him. "Rarity! Where are you?"

"OH DARLING!" Rarity said jumping on him and kissing him all over the face.

"I just had the craziest dream! We woke up and didn't remember anything and then Twilight did some spell on us and now we remember- Wait a minute!" Blitz said tapping his chin. Deadeye and Autumn laughed at Blitz's antics.

"Think again dummy." Autumn laughed.

"Where is Pinkie at?" Blitz asked.

"Uh oh!" The mane six thought to themselves, it Pinkie disappears it was never a good thing. Blitz looked up to see two large blue eyes staring at him with a smile so wide he didn't think it was biologically possible for a smile to be that big. Blitz moved his head up and kissed her before she jumped down.

"BLITZYBLITZYYOUREBACKOHMYGOS HTHISTHEHAPPIESTIVEBEENSINCE IWASAFILLYWHENISAWTHATBIGRAI NBOWTHINGANDNOWYOURBACKYOURB ACK!" She said hugging Blitz. Shadow was still rubbing his head, he began to remember everything. He saw a curled up ball of yellow fur not to far from him.

"Fluttershy?" Shadow said. "It's me! I'm back!" Shadow said. Fluttershy whimpered and slowly moved up to him. She looked at him in the eyes, she smiled and tackled him and began kissing him.

"Now isn't that just the most adorable thing you've ever seen!" Rarity said referring to Fluttershy and Shadow.

"Not as adorable as you toots." Autumn said making Rarity giggle. Rainbow Dash and Soarin looked at each other.

"What the hay c'mere!" Rainbow said as her and Soarin kissed. Skullcrusher figured now would be the best time to apologize and went up to Applejack ashamed of himself.

"Applejack, I didn't mean one word I said earlier. I love you and I probably would be dead if it weren't for you." Skullcrusher said with his head down. Applejack smiled at her husbands sweet words and went up to him and nuzzled him.

"Ah forgive you hon." Applejack said as the two kissed.

"C'mere you knuckleheads! I can't believe you are alive!" Autumn said grabbing Deadeye, Blitz, and Shadow and had one big group hug. They were all brothers to each other at this point.

"Wait where is Big Mac?" Blitz asked.

"Yeah where is the big guy?" Autumn asked.

"Gentlecolts, we have quite a story to tell you." Soarin said as he explained the past eight years to the COLTS. He said how Big Mac was the one who killed Gore and stopped the lava from flowing into Equestria, he talked of the COLT-II's and the mysterious creatures that had been attacking Equestria. He also said how Big Mac was never found. This news hit the COLTS hard but they all refrained from tears, except of course Blitz who was bawling his eyes out in the corner.

"You mean Big Mac is still in there?" Shadow asked quite upset. Soarin nodded his head.

"What are we waiting for? Lets go get him!" Autumn said jumping up.

"Sit down numbnuts!" Deadeye ordered as he grabbed Autumn's tail before he could run off. "You don't even know where the hay you are going."

"We can't just leave him there!" Shadow said getting up and walking next to Autumn.

"You think I wanna leave him down there? He is the one who pretty much ended the war! He is the one who deserves to be here not us!" Deadeye said. "We will find him, I don't care if takes us years! But you two almost ran off without knowing where you are going, not only that you are unarmed and have no armor."

"Oh oops!" Shadow said embarrassed.

"Oops is right filly." Deadeye said. He then fell over in pain as he clutched his chest.

"Captain!" Shadow said helping Deadeye to his hooves.

"Deadeye whats the matter?" Twilight asked concerned.

"Ah, Its where that bucker Gore stabbed me! AHH!" Deadeye said as he fell down again. If felt like something was stabbing the inside of his heart. He was confused, this injury should be healed! Unless...

"Twilight, do you know any x-ray vision spells?" Deadeye asked.

"Yes I do why?" Twilight asked.

"Use it and scan the area around my chest." Deadeye said. Twilight nodded as she begun the spell. She scanned Deadeyes chest and saw a piece of metal still ingrained in the muscle tissue next to his heart.

"There is a piece of shrapnel embedded in you still!" Twilight cried.

"Ah I knew it! Those doctors bucking suck!" All the moving around he had done over the past week must have pushed the shrapnel around. Deadeye moaned as he tried to figure out what to do about this. If he moved too much the shrapnel would impale his heart and kill him. Deadeye then realized what he had to do.

"Ohh this is gonna suck. Shadow come here." Deadeye said pulling out his dagger.

"Yes sir?" Shadow asked worried for his commanding officers life.

"Your gonna have to carve this thing out of my chest." Deadeye said. Everypony's mouth dropped when they heard this.

"Captain you can't possibly be serious!" Rarity said.

"Believe me I wish I wasn't but if I don't get this out now it will impale my heart and kill me." Deadeye said. Twilight nearly fainted at this thought. "You all might wanna look away, this might be a little messy."

"Uh captain?" Shadow said. "Would it be possible for Autumn or Blitz to do it?"

"Don't pull this on me now Shadow! Autumn is too rough and Blitz can't stay still for more then ten seconds, you have the steadiest hooves out of anyone here."

"But I don't want to hurt you!" Shadow said now petrified of what he had to do.

"Shadow if I die because you don't pull this out I'll be a lot worse off than hurting do you copy?" Deadeye asked.

"I-I-I can't" Shadow said ashamed at his cowardice. Everypony looked to Shadow shocked.

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! YOURE JUST GONNA LET ME DIE?" Deadeye yelled. "For bucks sake I'll do it myself!"

"Shadow, why couldn't you do it?" Fluttershy asked.

"I just don't want to hurt him, he's like my father now and I hate the thought of hurting him." Shadow said slightly crying.

"It's okay Shadow, He'll understand." Fluttershy said nuzzling him.

"Deadeye please have some sense! We can call the hospital!" Spike said thinking the captain had lost his mind.

"Those doctors bucked it up the first time! I'm doing it myself. BLITZ!" Deadeye yelled.

"Yes sir?" Blitz said as he finished crying over Big Mac's fate.

"Take these." Deadeye said pulling off his dog tags. "And go tell that coward son a bucker that when I'm done I'm gonna go over there and kill him!"

"Yes sir good luck sir!" Blitz said. Blitz ran over to Shadow and whispered into the guilt ridden stallions ear.

"Captain says when he is done he is gonna come here and kill you." Blitz said to Shadow. Autumn face-hooved. Blitz may have been the most common sense deprived pony he had ever met. This wasn't a lie, Blitz isn't the brightest pony and he often takes things seriously and clearly doesn't understand the concept of sarcasm.

"Ah buck!" Deadeye said as he gritted his teeth and embedded the dagger in his chest. Fluttershy, Rarity, and Twilight immediately fainted as Deadeye's blood sprayed across the mirror he was using. Deadeye hadn't been in this much pain since his alterations at COLT training. He continued to dig the dagger further as he felt it dig through skin, muscle, bone, nerves, and finally...

"AHH!" He yelped as he yanked out the piece of shrapnel. It hit the ground with a bloody thunk. The bleeding stopped within a minute and the wounds began to heal.

"Captain are you alright?" Autumn asked helping Deadeye to his hooves.

"I am never doing that again!" Deadeye said. Shadow had broken down completely, his cowardice to do what was necessary almost cost Deadeye his life.

"It would have been better off if they never found me!" Shadow thought to himself as he ran out the door.

"Shadow!" Autumn yelled. "Great, Blitz go get him."

"Roger dodger!" Blitz said as he took off super speed to get his friend.

"It's amazing how that non existent brain can even generate enough power to keep his legs moving." Autumn said.

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Clawthorne carefully aimed his throw as he chucked a dart at the dartboard. His dart landed straight in the middle unlike Goldbeak's who had all completely missed the board.

"Thats right boy! You owe thirty bits!" Clawthorne said.

"You suck you know that?" Goldbeak said as he gave Clawthorne the thirty bits. Clawthorne was a legend at darts among the griffons. No one had ever beaten him. That was probably why he was so accurate with a spear. Clawthorne quickly burned through his money on cider. Goldbeak went to go sit down with Gilda who was reading a magazine on a lounge chair.

"You get your butt kicked again?" Gilda said without looking up.

"Yeah." Goldbeak said sitting down. "Did the captain find out what those things that attacked us were?"

"Yeah they are called Mordras or something like that. They have the same augmentations as we do which would explain why it was so hard to freakin kill!" Gilda said. "I don't think I've ever gotten ravaged that badly before.

"I could change that!" Clawthorne said. Gilda growled as she picked up a dart and threw it at Clawthorns face.

"AHHH! OW!" He screamed as the dart embedded itself in the griffons cheek.

"Hmph!" Gilda said sitting back down.

"Gotta give him credit for trying." Goldbeak laughed.

"Hay no!" Gilda said.

"Anyway back to these Mordras, where did they come from?" Goldbeak asked.

"I dunno, wish I could tell you." Gilda said as she sipped her cider.

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"SHADOW! SHADOW!" Blitz called out for the grey stallion but got no answer. Blitz decided to just listen for him. His ears perked as he heard sniffling and crying. He followed it till he saw Shadow sitting on a cliff with his head in his hooves.

"Shadow? You alright buddy?" Blitz asked as he out his hoof on Shadow's shoulder.

"No!" He screamed in between tears. It was muffled since he his face was in his hoofs but Blitz was able to hear it.

"Come on buddy!" Blitz said but Shadow didn't move. Blitz started making faces so Shadow would laugh but it wasn't working. Blitz frowned, he would make Shadow laugh. He hopped on one hoof as he juggled three pineapples.

"Hey Shadow look at me!" Blitz said as he juggled the fruit. Shadow just looked down as the three fruits hit Blitz in the face covering him in pineapple juice.

"Please just come back Shadow! You crying is making me wanna cry!" Blitz said as he started to sniffle. Shadow didn't want to cause anymore drama so he quickly got up.

"Please don't cry! I'll come back!" Shadow said. Blitz felt a grin move across his face.

"Works everytime!" "Well lets go then!" Blitz said grabbing Shadow and sprinting back to Ponyville.

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Deadeye's wound had stopped bleeding and was patched up. He was glad he got the shrapnel out but man did it hurt. His injury wasn't the only thing hurting him though. All of the COLT-II's had left including Skullcrusher and Soarin. The only ponies remaining were COLTS Omega and the elements.

"I can't believe I did that." Deadeye said.

"Neither can I! I can't imagine just stabbing myself like that!" Rainbow said as she poured water over Rarity's face to wake her up.

"*Cough* Autumn? *cough*!" Rarity said as she woke up.

"Not that Ms Dash, What I did to Shadow." Deadeye said looking down.

"Come on it can't be THAT bad!" Rainbow said.

"But it is. I know how sensitive he is and it was wrong of me to put him in that situation." Deadeye said. "Boy am I crappy captain or what?"

Not at all! I mean you know all those cool moves and you won all those battles!" Rainbow said.

"Being a good leader isn't about how good of a fighter you are, It's how well you treat your stallions. I made Shadow do something I easily could have done myself, so much for 'never having your stallions do something you wouldn't be willing to do yourself'." Deadeye said.

"You know I kinda know how you feel, you know Fluttershy?" Rainbow asked.

"Yes she is the quiet one." Deadeye said.

"Ten years ago we had to stop a dragon who was snoring cause he was making this huge cloud of smoke over Ponyville. Fluttershy was terrified of dragons but I kinda forced her to come the whole time despite how scared she was. It wasn't nice of me to do but she overcame her fear and she talked the dragon down all by herself!" Rainbow explained.

"Well I guess that is similar to my situation. Thank you Ms Dash." Deadeye said. Twilight had awoken from her unconsciousness and immediately ran over to Deadeye.

"Deadeye please don't tell me you actually-!" Twilight said noticing Deadeye's bloody bandage.

"It was that or death Twilight." Deadeye said as he wrapped his hoof around her.

"You had me so worried!" Twilight said as Blitz and Shadow walked in.

"Heres comes the great shit storm!" Autumn thought to himself as he prepared for Deadeye to explode.

"Captain I-" Shadow began to say.

"Shadow I am totally, completely, 100%, utterly pissed off at you!" Deadeye said standing at his full height. Shadow shrunk away. "For allowing me to be so selfish."

"What?" Shadow asked.

"I know you are sensitive and I know you would never want to hurt anypony. It was wrong of me to put you in that situation when I could have done it myself from the beginning." Deadeye said in a fatherly tone. "I'm sorry."

"Captain." Shadow said as he moved into hug Deadeye. Deadeye was caught off guard by this but he returned the hug.

"GROUP HUG! Blitz said as he joined in with Autumn.

"I already lost one of you boys, I won't lose another." Deadeye said referring to Big Mac.

"Alright this is getting kind of gay." Autumn said noticing how long they were hugging.

"Hey Autumn?" Deadeye said.

"Yeah sir?"

"Shut up." Deadeye said as they all started laughing. The elements sat there with d'awww expressions.

"Oh this is so cute!" Pinkie said hopping up and down.

'Thats just the sweetest dang thing ah've ever seen." Applejack said taking her hat off.

"GROUP HUG!" Pinkie said as the elements also hugged. They were interrupted by Pipsqueak who ran in to a group of full grown stallions hugging each other and a group of mares hugging each other.

"Bloody hell did I miss something?" Pip said to himself he then remembered why he came here in the first place.

"What is it Pip?" Applejack asked the COLT.

"They found him! They found Big Mac!"