the morning sandstorm and our introduction to buckshot's rangers- part 2

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As we all went our own ways for the night the wind just continued to remind us of how bad it really was by blowing dust, pebbles and any lose items around the town making it difficult to even see what was in front of us. Me and Harmony managed to make our way back to our motel which took about 30 minutes due to being blown back 2 feet every time we gained 4 it seemed. The wind kept us both up all night just blowing harder and harder until we thought the town was going to be blown off the maps, it was about 0100 in the morning when we both got to sleep and in all honesty it was the worst sleep I or her had ever gotten. Dinky was in the room across the way from us and she couldn't sleep either but kind of had to since she would be taking over the post office in the morning so she just let herself drift off, whereas me and Harmony allowed for some fun before taking a shower and trying to go to bed again. A fruitless act to be honest seeing as it was almost 0500 by the time we remotely were ready for bed.

Since it was already morning and we had no plans for the day I let her sleep in and went to check on Dinky who was already getting her morning coffee in the breakfast area of the motel along with Grey Hoof and Black Widow who both looked exhausted like they hadn't gotten any sleep either. I was going to say something but thought better seeing as Black Widow had the ability to read minds and was already shooting me a glare for my thoughts that had escaped my head, I simply blushed a bit and quickly went to sit with Dinky hoping that I wouldn't think anymore thoughts about the subject.

Dinky seemed a bit nervous and kept looking over her shoulder at a group of ponies that had just trotted in to the dining area and had taken seats along a back wall. I looked them all over and saw that the only weapons they had were pump action shotguns and .44magnum revolvers, and I also noticed that they were all colts and unicorns. I looked back to Dinky who was in a hurry to get done eating and get the hell out of there in a hurry and asked her why she was afraid of these ponies. She told me that it wasn't the ponies that were making her nervous rather the fact that she would be taking on the responsibilities of an all new post office, and in fact that the colts were in her own words very handsome to look at to which I simply laughed and nudged her with a hoof to introduce herself to them, something I in fact was about to do they were indeed very handsome and I also hadn't seen them around before so I figured we both had a reason to talk to them. I pretty much had to drag Dinky over to them and she fought me the whole way there but when she got to the table of the leader her shyness melted away and she actually blew me away with the way she seemed to gain his attention just by talking about nothing in particular.

"Hi there I am Dinky Hooves of the Equestrian postal service, you need it delivered I am the mare who can get it there day, night wind, rain, whatever the weather I am always on the job, ohh sorry allow me to introduce you to my friend, this is Ruby of the n.c.e military she is a major in the n.c.e. I was in the eqng before it was disbanded and now pretty much am also in the n.c.e military as the official mailmare/courier. Anyways boys I have to get going but uhhm I will be off work at 1700 so maybe we can get together than huh?" Dinky had completely caught me off guard on that one, she in fact was a very persuasive mare and they all agreed to meet back here for dinner, with that Dinky trotted out the door and was gone leaving me alone with the leader of the group of stallions who called himself Buckshot.

"Your friend seems quite interesting to say the least and it is interesting that we should come across some former eqng ponies, I thought that Luna ordered all eqng members to report to Shattered Hoof Ridge, oh well just goes to show that some orders aint worth followin. Allow me to introduce myself properly, I am Buckshot and these are my rangers. We hunt down the n.l.r wherever they happen to be hiding out and we got wind of a cell in this town, but the way it looks things here are pretty much covered to say the least, I mean gees we went by the diner last night and wow that’s a mighty big group yal got there makes mine seem a mite small to be honest. Anyways we aint planning to be in town that long, we have to get back to Dodge junction to check on our families, or at least what remains of them. The n.l.r made a raid on the place about 2 weeks ago and to be honest we have been out of touch with any pony living there, I’m just hoping that we can make it there before all the towns ponys decide to leave and we have no ponys to go home to. Damn n.l.r raiders I got wind of the attack from a single pony who happened to be in the town passing through as a trader, he told us the killing was intense and that the only reason they didn't kill him was he managed to trade some food basically for life. We are on our way back from a mission in Detrot and were low on a few things when we happened upon this here town, the towns ponys have been real nice and have helped us a bit with supplies so we should be out of here this afternoon if all goes well."