Duke Cooper is, among other things, arguably the worst and unluckiest war-gamer in town. He's also one of the only ones left in town, thanks to Ponification and Equestria.

A brief drive-by encounter with the PER and some experimental Ponification Serum leaves him dead… for about 30 seconds. Unfortunately, he's signed up for Life Insurance with SDC, and they pride themselves on being prompt about insurance payouts.

Payout is resuming life exactly as you were, five minutes before you died.

Duke's always said the world needed more people like him; although, perhaps not so literally.

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A psuedo-self-insert for the anniversary.