Fallout: Equestria - Heart of the Goddess .

Chapters

Ch.1
Ch.2
Ch.3
Ch.4
Ch.5
Ch.6

Ch.1

It was a beautiful day in Manehattan, one of those pleasant, warm and windless .
Not to mention the fact that it was a day off for the local gun manufacturing company, the Cog's Armaments .

The inn, a pile of sheets stuck on an old decaying building was full of workers, and even they were full, but of money to spend on whiskey, apple cider and other alcohol to drown the effort and awareness of working for one of the meanest ponies that the megaspells had spared .
However, it wasn't a problem for the innkeeper, that day .
Lots of drunks, lots of money...

" Hey, bartender !"

And a lot of pain in the ass .
A regular customer, a pony with a mane dirt of oil and a yellowish coat, always drunk and very whiny .
The innkeeper, Thin Chain, a ghoul, approached the pony and, after taking a deep breath, began to speak with him .

" What is it this time ?"
" This whiskey sucks ! I want to be refunded !"
" … really ?"

Knowing that the pony was just a whiny, Thin Chain pointed with her hoof other three empty bottles and, sarcastically, she asked him a question .

"Even those bottles were so bad ?"

Probably, it was a bad days for the yellowish pony .
The pony stood up and took Thin Chain by the mane, banging on the counter in front of the two and holding her head with a hoof, while pointing a gun .

" Listen to me, you kind of a ugly walking corpse, or you give me back my money, or I swear I'll -"

The pony was unable to finish the sentence that he was without one of the hind hooves .
Among his excruciating cries of pain and the blood spurted, he saw a huge white unicorn, with a cybernetic leg and, apparently, without the left cheek, coming towards him angrily .

" First, the customer has hardly ever reason. Second, if the customer disturbs other customers he will be escorted out by kicks in his ass ! And third..."

The pony on the ground felt something cold and sharp on the neck .
It wasn't a good sign .

" No one call my sister a walking corpse, you subspecies of ugly, rotten scumbag ."

The yellowish pony was praying the unicorn to let him go, and that he would never come into the inn anymore .
Obviously, the unicorn wasn't minimally listening, and was, instead, preparing to finish it .

" Bone Saw !" Shouted Thin Chain, " Don't do it !"
" And why ? This son of a bloatsprite would kill you if I hadn't arrived in time !"

Thin Chain looked down, speechless by her brother.

" Please ..." said the yellowish pony , almost half bled and crying, " I... I will c-change city, I swear! Please don't kill me !"

Bone Saw, if somewhat reluctantly, decided to let the pony go and took him out of the inn, leaving him with two customers who had offered to take him to hospital.

-=0=-

later, that night, after closing the local and having activated the alarms, the two went to their apartments above the Scrambled Wings.
Although it wasn't the best place that that sewer hole of Manehattan could give them, it was still better than where they lived as foals.
Thin Chain was still angry with his brother, and Bone Saw felt the same feelings towards his beloved sister.

" I would have killed him ."
" That's what you say ."
" We were born and raised in Fillydelphia, Sawie. Do you really think I couldn't manage to resolve the situation ?"
" I remind you that I'm the one who, between you and me, risk his own skin !?"

Inside the room, a deep silence fell down. The day had gone completely wrong, and the following day the two would have to discuss with the local authorities and with those of the Cog's.
Or both.
Without even looking at each other, the two stretched on their beds and turned off the lights, looking for, if not to sleep, at least to relax a bit.

" At least you were close to something to break his head on ?"
"... I had one of my hoofs on one of those bottles that asshole had drained. A few seconds and I would knocked him out ."

" Well done, my Thinny ."

-=0=-

Sultriness, air laden with toxic fumes and clouds full of ashes that almost covered the sun, that's how the day was for the workers of Steelhoover, the "Little Fillydelphia", as it was called by the locals, a concentration of slaves and desperate, to work in the biggest venue of the Cog's, in appalling conditions and risking their lives every day.
And in his office, Melting Cog, the undisputed president of the Cog's, a ghoul dressed in a pre-war suit all patched up, was arguing with a quartet of his slavers partners of some problems encountered in Manehattan.

"My dear fellow, may I know what's happening in Manehattan ?"
"You tell him ." Whispered one of the slavers to another.
"Fuck you, he's gonna kill me !" whispered the another.
"You ! Tell me what's happening in Manehattan, now !"
"Well... uhm... I don't know how -"

The slaver even managed to finish speaking that found himself with a bullet in his head.

"Now, you filthy, stupid bastards, or you answer me or you need to deal with Broken Horn ." said threatening and with clenched teeth Melting Cog.
After a minute of silence, everyone present began to yell something confused on a stallion and an inn, but with all that noise, the ghoul couldn't understand anything.
To fix everything, Melting Cog took the microphone of the facility's speakers and shouted the name of his most trusted mercenary.
From the large office window behind him, entered a reddish alicorn, with a lightweight battle armor and a kind of metal plate anchored to the horn. The alicorn landed in front of the slavers, muting and paralyzing them in fear of being killed by that beast.

"Now, one at a time, can someone tell me what you were talking ? Who is this "unicorn" you were talking about !? "
"Sorry, uh, boss," said, raising a hoof, a slaver, "from what little we seemed to understand, there is an innkeeper who... well... bated up some of your workers, all here. "
"It's true! is a giant unicorn, white and bald!"
"Yeah, sir, It's high as... well... as Broken Horn, I swear !"

Melting Cog began to think.
This mysterious innkeeper has been a problem in recent months, but on the other hand the headquarter of Manehattan began to be profitable only recently, so the problem could also be dealt with another time, more calmly. Also because there was the other question, more important of the loss of a few months of profit.
But he judged that it was better to do something right now, so at least the innkeeper wouldn't have caused problems later.

"Broken Horn,take a couple of mercenaries with you and go find this innkeeper, and remember to bring him my regards ."

Having said this, Broken Horn nodded and flied away, out of the window.

"And you all," said again irritated Melting to the slavers, " if you don't have to do something, at least try to fix my window !"

Ch.2

The inn was more empty than usual that day.
It was largely due to the fact that the employees of Cog's were at work, but on the other side it was for the incident that happened the day before, and everyone knows it's best to stay away from there, for at least a couple of weeks. Only the most loyal (or drunk) customers would not move a meter from there. One, however, attracted the attention of Thin Chain: it was a pony with a gray coat, wearing a long jacket with a hood that left only uncover a bit of muzzle. And from what seemed, that guy had a cybernetics jaw.

"Can I help you, sir ?" asked Thin Chain, who had approached smiling the mysterious costumer.
The gray pony began to think, then he looked up and said, with a metallic voice: "Yes. There's a little something you can do for me, young mare ."

Meanwhile, on the back of the inn, Bone Saw was arguing with two local agents, who were questioning him for nearly an hour and a half, and were now tired of been there.

"Look, agent, write anything ... you just have to write, I've just rescued my sister and that's it."
"Yes, and so then who hear my superior ? That ass just sit in his chair and follow the orders of Mr. Cog. "
"... Look, tell me if these may change your mind."

Bone Saw took a sack full of caps, earned from his last job as a mercenary.
The two officers looked at each other, and then one had a look as if to say " oooh, come on, let him go and let's take the caps ".
And so they did, without saying so many things. Finally, Bone Saw could take care of his customers and enjoy those few caps that remained, enough to buy a few stocks of whiskey and extra-alcoholic cider .
And his weekly doses of med-x.

"Hey, Sawie, there's a guy who wants to talk to you."
"Where he is ?"
"It's down there on the right, next to the entrance."

Bone Saw, before going to talk to the mysterious pony, took his shotgun, in case it was one of the mercenary of the Cog's.
Once arrived in front of the pony, he sat down and began to talk to him.

"I don't care who you are or why you're here, I just want to know what you want."
"I see you don't go so well in the use of grammar." said, chuckling and with his metallic voice, the pony, "you just did a contradiction."
Bone Saw made a false laugh, saying how funny he was .
"Look, I'm back from a small job recently, and I don't want problems."
" I know. The Gore twins , if I'm not wr - "

Bone Saw snapped and, while struggling with his hooves the pony for the jacket collar, pointed his shotgun against him .

"No one had to know of that job ."
"I've heard about."
" And how ? It was they who entrusted me to search them , and they haven't ended good . "
"There are many ways to fin-"
"Cut short, or I'll blow the other side of your head."

The pony swallowed a lot of saliva, and said he had bypassed the systems of some sprite-bots to monitor certain areas of Equestria, and have stumbled accidentally in Bone Saw, while he was completing his job . Bone Saw, however, said that to bypass one of those things it was wanted someone experienced in robotics.
The pony replied saying only that he had a long experience in robotics, and that had a certain familiarity with the sprite-bots's systems .
But the discussion was interrupted when two ponies, wearing the uniform of the Cog's mercenaries, one armed with a bat and one with a gun, entered the inn, breaking the door.

"There he is!" Shouted one of them, then rushes against Bone Saw to hit him with his bat.
But the unicorn had faced similar situations, and two little bastards were not a big problem. The first thing to do was to disarm the other pony, the one with the gun.
So, after avoiding the hit of the pony armed with the mace and hitting him with its metallic hoof, Bone Saw levitated his shotgun to the mercenary, but that armed with the bat managed to deflect the blow, hitting the gun and knocking it to the ground. Then, while the pony with the gun was going to shoot Bone Saw, the latter pulled the pony armed with the mace in front of him, using it as a shield.
After shooting three or four fatal blows to his companion, Bone Saw decided to hurl the body against the mercenary, so that the pony lost the gun from his mouth. Fortunately for the mercenary, he was still armed, and took out from a holster a combat knife, and then loaded against Bone Saw.
After dodging three or four swipes and being slightly scratched, Bone Saw struck the mercenary with his bare hooves, and managed to throw him away thanks to a magic arrow. The opponent, however, fell in front of his gun and managed to get it back, and fired a shot, hitting the non-metallic part of Bone Saw's left leg, making him fall to the ground.

"Mr. Cog wishes you his most cordial greetings." said ironically the mercenary, as he approached Bone Saw.

Just prior to being close to the tall white unicorn, the mercenary was hit by Thin chain with a spiked club in the head, killing him.
Finally, the fight was over. Thin Chain came suddenly to his brother, trying to lift and carry him to the back of the local, where there were a pair of pliers and healing potions.

"Hey ... uh, young mare !" Said the pony Bone Saw was interrogating, which in the meantime had hidden behind a small overturned table , "Wait, I'll give you a hoof."
Thin Chain told him that she knew what to do, and she had taken care of the worst wounds to his brother, in the past.
Then, the gray pony took off his hood, revealing to have more of a mechanical part on his head.
"Trust me, I have some experience about "worst wounds". Said so, he helped Thin Chain to take Bone Saw on the back, and put him sitting on a chair.
"But where are the damn pliers?" wondered Thin Chain to herself.
"Wait, they aren't needed ." Said the gray pony, as he raised one of his hooves, who was robotic too.
Now, Thin Chain and Bone Saw wondered what of that pony wasn't mechanical.
By it came out something like a small metallic appendix , ending in a small pliers.
Bone Saw eyes widened, and he continued to stare at that... thing .

"Oooh no, I don't allow anypony to put their things inside of me !"
"Come on, don't be such a wimp, you'll barely feel a bit of pain."
"Would you like to have the appendix of someone else stick inside your body !?"

The gray pony withdrew the pliers and the appendix, and stared into Bone Saw's eyes, with his robotic, blacks and reds eyes .

"Okay, now I tell you what happens if I don't remove that bullet. It ends up into your circulation, it get stuck into an artery and makes you have a heart attack, and bye bye to Bone Saw. "
The tall white unicorn stared at the gray pony, scared by the words of the latter.
"Okay, take it out as well, but don't mess me up this leg any further ".

The pony, once re-extracted his pliers, set to work.
Two minutes later, the operation was almost complete when the three herded the sound of an explosion coming from the main room.
The gray pony put everything away, and looked out the door leading to the room.

"... We're fuck ." He said, after seeing Broken Horn approaching with four levitating machine guns .

Author's Note

I know, this was maybe a bit too long.

Ch.3

Broken Horn entered in the inn, not seeing his companions come out. Seeing the dead mercenaries, she realized that the innkeeper had to be a tough nut to crack, and that therefore she shouldn't underestimate it and be faster than him.
If only she could know where he was.

"Ok, don't panic." said the gray pony to Thin Chain and Bone Saw softly, "we just have to leave the room."
"How ?" asked agitated Thin Chain, "There's a fucking alicorn heavily armed out there, and don't seem to have an happy look !"
"Well, there's an exit on the back ?" asked the gray pony.
"It's out there, the back door !" Replied Thin Chain stressed.

The gray pony gave a hoof on his face as if to say "how could you been so stupid !", as he thought of a plan.
Bone Saw, meanwhile, removed the bullet by itself ( so, now, it was enough to pull it out ) and drank a healing potion, so as to close the wound quickly. in the mean time, they could hear Broken Horn approaching with heavy and slow steps .

"I have a plan !" said the gray pony, while his hooves seemed to emit... sparks ?

That noise caught the attention of Broken Horn, who began firing bursts of bullets against the wall plates that separated her from her goals, razing it to the ground. Fortunately, Bone Saw created an energy shield strong enough to stop the bullets.
Broken Horn, now, knew what face had its objectives.

"Well, well, then you two are the ones that have created problems to my boss ." said Broken Horn to Bone Saw and Thin Chain, "which is not a problem for me."
"Who are you ?" asked through clenched teeth Bone Saw, staring at the alicorn with a look of flame.

Broken Horn re-pointed the guns, and now that the magic shield of Bone Saw was gone it was a game for foals to kill him and his sister.
But before she could squeeze the trigger, she was hit by a powerful electrical discharge from the gray pony that had sneaked behind her .
This was enough to stun the reddish alicorn.

"Come on, we gotta go !" Shouted the gray pony.

While they were to leave the inn, something struck on the head of the gray pony, who stopped to see what it was. A Matrix-Disruption Grenade, which exploded and sent him in tilt.
So, Bone Saw had to carry the gray pony on his back.

"... This will... not appeal the boss ..." said, while recovering, Broken Horn.

Later, somewhere in the Fetlock, the disparate trio had taken refuge in the small shack of Bone Saw, a bunch of metal sheets and a few pieces of brick here and there.
The gray pony was still stunned by the MDG , And the other two were thinking for what to do. Partially because going back would be a risk, with that armed beast out there to look for them, but the cabin wasn't the best place to live.
Of course, there was always a cabin not far from there, and the owner didn't show up for some time, but it was better not to go there because it was well protected by laser traps and other serious stuff .
As they thought, the gray pony began to recover, mumbling as if he was in the throes of an hangover. Bone Saw came to speak to him again, as they had been rudely interrupted.

"Uuuuh, my poor metal head... hey, where are we?"
"In a safe place."
" Are you sure ?"
"Of course."
" Sure sure ?"
"Look, if you're trying to irritate me, congratulations, you're doing it !"
"... how touchy ."

Bone Saw gave him a resounding punch on the muzzle of the gray pony, and began to tell him that he could at least thank him for saving his ass . The other, holding a hoof on the muzzle, sarcastically thanked him and asked if there was a radio that could be used to call for help.
Thin Chain, who meanwhile had set up around a bit, he said that the radio was in the kitchen, near the cooler.
The gray pony, after rising heavily and doing some meter staggering, came into the kitchen and turned on the radio.

"Do you think we can trust him ?" asked to his brother Thin Chain.
"I don't know, it reminds me of someone ..." said Bone Saw, "but he saved both our bottom , then we can give him a chance."
Thin Chain sighed and said to his brother that if was fine for him, then it was fine for her.
"Don't worry, Thinny," said Bone Saw after putting his cybernetics leg her around sister, "at most I'll blow his head, if only try to do something."

In the kitchen, the gray pony was trying to tune in a radio station somewhere, cursing the fact of having a good part of its systems fried and couldn't call his assistant with the radio system's mechanism implemented in one of his ears. But finally, after several expletives and interference, he managed to find the signal, and began to call.

"Snow Flank ! Snow Flank, answer me !"
"Shn..ow ?"
"Yes, it's me, Cyber, come and get me !"
"Shno fllaank ...?"
"Follow the radio signal and that's it, Snow. I'm waiting you !"

Once finished talking to his hoarse assistant, Cyber returned from the two, who were monitoring food and weapons.
Bone Saw turned to Cyber and asked what kind of name is, and the latter replied that it was always better then called as an object to amputate limbs. I'll let you imagine what a commotion broke out, between flying fists and firing insults.
Fortunately, Thin Chain calmed the two again enough to get them away from each other.

"If you are interested, my assistant will come soon ." said Cyber while re-adjusting his mane, "Take what you need and get ready to leave."

The two took the indispensable minimum: Bone Saw his black leather jacket, a club created by metal scraps, some healing potion and a large stock of med-x, while Thin Chain all the food and drink that she found.
A half hour later, the three found themselves out of the shack, waiting for Cyber's assistant .

"What did you say his name was ?" asked Bone Saw.
"Who ?" asked airhead Cyber .
"Your assistant !" Shouted against him Bone Saw.
"Stop yelling, you look like my brother !" responded in kind Cyber, "however, he's called Snow Flank."
For a few minutes, silence fell.
"Curious name." Said Thin Chain, trying to have a conversation.
"It's not that took me a lot of imagination to give it to him." He replied Cyber.
"Is your son?" Asked Bone Saw, also trying to speak to him, even though it was felt that he could not care less.
"Oooh, no no no, he isn't ." replied Cyber chuckling, "is only a snowflake."

Bone Saw and Thin Chain looked at each other, a little confused and without understanding what Cyber meant with "Snowflake".
"Presumably, he was still stunned by the MDG of before," surely thought the two.
Thin Chain asked Cyber , however, with what Snow Flank would come and take them, and Cyber replied that it was a surprise.
Soon after, the three felt like a rumble, coming from the clouds above them and, looking up, they saw an blue airship , great about twenty meters, with the initials engraved on the sides C.C.Science .
The ship stopped some meters from the shack, enough to bring down a walkway in front of the three ponies.
Cyber ironically asked what his two "fellow travelers" thought, and they were speechless.

"For Celestia's holly ass, how the heck did you get an airship?"
"Let's just say that I borrowed it. Many years ago ."

So, they boarded on the airship and it took flight toward the southwest, moving away in a hurry from Manehattan.

=-O-=

Melting was enjoying, sitting on his favorite chair, a nice evening in his bedroom, reading an old prewar book , when Broken Horn entered tumbling from the door, knocking it down. After being briefly scolded by her boss, the reddish alicorn told him what had happened to Manehattan. Melting stood up and gave the book he was reading in his face in Broken Horn, making her bend toward the ground.

"How did you fail in a mission so simple !?" he yelled at her.
"I... I'm sorry, boss." said softly Broken Horn.
"you have already disappointed me twice, species of goose with half horn." said angrily Melting , "I remind you that it was me who've find you in the wasteland out there, and I have helped you to get back on track. "
"... breaking my horn." Replied almost growling Broken Horn, only to be hit again from the book of Melting.
"Okay, enough now." said quietly Melting, for then prepare himself to exit, "prepare the Omen Lead, calls all the mercenaries you find and then meet me, understand ?"

Broken Horn said nothing, she just nodded and flew away, to execute the orders of Melting. Now alone, the ghoul could think on what to do.
Finally, the time who he waited for half a century had arrived and if he achieved his goal, a simple shabby innkeeper would no longer be a problem, nor anything else would be.
He just had to solve a ... family matter.

"It's about time that you decided to move from your little mountain, brother." Said to the horizon, in the south-east direction.

=-O-=

Two hours later, on the border with the Everfree forest, Bone Saw and Thin Chain learned that the gray pony was Cyber Cog, the brother of Melting, who survived the great megaspells's bombardment due to his cryogenic technology and the replacement of body parts with mechanical substitutes . The reason, however, Cyber wanted to hire Bone Saw was not yet clear to the two of Manehattan, but the explanation would had come during dinner. In the bridge deck of the C.C.SCIENCE, the trio had settled around a long table of fine wood, ready to receive a hot, delicious and fresh meal , not canned food barely warm or full of radiation.

"Well well, the dinner will be here any moment now ." said cheerfully Cyber, sniffing the air.
"Listen Cyber," began Bone Saw, while giving quick glances to his sister, "can you tell us now why you wanted me ?"
"...You're very repetitive, you know ?" said Cyber annoyed by the insistence of the unicorn.
"Well, you know, this morning a damn alicorn didn't riddled me but instead destroyed a good part of my inn !"
"... Alright, maybe I have to agree with you this time. So I hired for- "

From the door behind Cyber appeared a small colt, looking creepy: sunken and wide eyes, with an almost anorexic physique and with a vague expression on his face.

"Dinner !" Said Cyber smiling, "Thank you Snow Flank !"
"Wait, that thing is ... Snow Flank ?" asked half curiously and half disgusted Thin Chain.

Snow Flank served the dishes based of sauces, soups and roasted radroach.
Although Cyber was used to the sight of his assistant, it couldn't really said the same for the other two. Bone Saw pulled back his iron hoof and drew aside a few centimeters, disgusted and disturbed by Snow Flank, while these poured the soup, slightly drooling .

"Hey ... uh ... look, I can serve myself, okay ?" Asked impressed Bone Saw.
"Sssnoow ..." said Snow Flank staring straight to Bone Saw disturbingly, even doing some guttural verses. At this point, Bone Saw didn't know whether to run before that thing could ate him... or just shoot him in the face, but fortunately he left in time, to serve Thin Chain.

"Beautiful..." said Snow Flank to Thin Chain, looking her with what presumably was a smile.
"... Oh, yes, thank you ... thingummy ." replied quickly Thin Chain.
"Mmooommmyyy... Snooow Flaaank?" asked with his usual calm and ethereal tone Snow Flank to Cyber Cog. The two felt an embarrassment pervade them both, and for a minute there was silence.
Then, Cyber said no to Snow Flank, and the other made a sound of discontent, and went with his head bowed, back in the kitchen.
Now, Cyber was ready to explain why he chose Bone Saw for his ( as yet unspecified ) mission.

"I need to retrieve something, my friend, something very powerful in the south-west, somewhere in the desert of San Palomino."
"What is it?"
"Ah, I do not know."
"How great ..."
"But I just know that it has the same power of something similar I pointed out four years ago in Splendid Valley."
"Hm, from what I know there is only Maripony down there."
"I have to correct you: there was ."

The speech went on for another quarter of an hour, and Cyber explained that the energy source was the same of Maripony, just... more irregular and less powerful, as if something had damaged it. The cyber pony speculated that someone or something had moved it, though he didn't know why. That said, Bone Saw asked just one thing: how much lavish would have been the reward ?
Cyber replied that it would be the highest that the unicorn had ever received.

"Twenty thousand ".

Bone Saw blinked, and faltered the digit for a moment, stunned, while on the face of Thin Chain was forming a broad smile. Once recovered from his astonishment, Bone Saw looked straight into Cyber's eyes, and asked him if he was joking.
In response, Cyber called Snow Flank again, telling him to lead the advance.
Shortly after, the repulsive colt took a big sack, throwing it on the table and doing so pour the content. Bone Saw's eyes sparkled at the sight of all those caps.

"Did I convinced you ?" asked ironically Cyber.
"I... oh, for the Tartarus, yes !" Said Bone Saw wile taking and squeezing the caps at him.

Finally, even if cold, the three began to enjoy their dinner. A half hour later, Bone Saw went on the main deck, admiring the stars.
He hadn't seen a sky so beautiful since when he escaped from Fillydelphia with his sister, during the revolution of Red Eye. They reminded him that moment all the ponies and slaves are waiting to obtain: freedom.

"Suggestive view ?" asked with his metallic voice Cyber.
"Very ." answered him not angrier Bone Saw, "Listen... um... I just wanted to say I'm sorry, you know ? For the matter to the shack . "
"Don't worry, Bone, I and Melting had always fought like that."
" ...can I ask you a question ?"
"Let me guess, why we hate each other ?"
"Exactly."
"Heh, if I could know. Before the war, before... this, he was already competing with me, but I don't know why. "
"Well, you are brothers, it's natural to be in competition."
"Arriving even to sabotage the personal stable of your brother because he'll have ruined your life ?"

The two fell silent, and they began to observe again the night sky.
Cyber was staring it lost in the memories, something that hadn't happened for a long time.

"I look at the stars from before you, Bone." Said Cyber melancholy, "I did it with my wife, long ago."
"Is she dead ?"
"Something similar ."

So, after wiping a few tears, cyber said it was time to sleep.
Finally, Bone Saw and the others could sleep a good night's sleep, relaxing in their comfortable beds. Bone Saw fell asleep quickly, very heavily, while his sister, in the next room, was trying to get some sleep.
Unfortunately, in the room, entered Snow Flank, and that surely wasn't helping.

"Uh ... hello, dude." Said disquieted Thin Chain.
"Ssnooow ..." said the other.
"Yes, well... look, why do not you go to your room... or wherever you sleep in ?"
"Snooww Flaaannk ... shnooow."
"Look, I don't understand what you..."

Snow Flank came up a bit to the bed of Thin Chain, looking distinctly sad. Thin Chain felt a little guilty about how she had treated him. Thus, the mare asked what the colt wanted, and he stood next to the bed of Thin Chain, lying. Apparently, he just wanted to have someone next him with sleep, for once.
Thin Chain putted one of her hoof on one of Snow's shoulder, and Snow Flank took a deep, rattling sigh, and then make a soft verse of happiness. Now, even the two slowly fell asleep.
Too bad that the free ride didn't last long.
A couple of hours later, a loud explosion, coming from outside, woke the four, who rushed out to see what that loud sound was.
Outside, they saw a huge Airship much bigger than their, a Raptor D-class, with the words Omen Lead on its side, with his cannons armed and pointed at them. Looking closer, Cyber recognized a pony he well known and hated.
Melting.

Author's Note

How much quotes to the original Fan fiction you can find ?

Ch.4

" Cyber," said Bone Saw, as he stared stunned the huge airship, " there's... a fucking giant airship in front of us ."
" I hadn't noticed ." Cyber replied.

At the edge of the desert of San Palomino, at several meters from the ground, Bone Saw and the rest of his group were preparing for the worst, knowing that perhaps they couldn't stand against Melting. The latter, meanwhile, was giving orders to his mercenaries on the pilot bridge to stay alert, and report any possible malfunction on the ship, and above all to be ready to shoot.
Then he picked up a microphone, connected to the airship's radio.

" Cyber !" shouted, shaking the speakers of the C.C.SCIENCE's radio , " this is the last time that I warn you. Go away and turn back on your little mountain !"
"And you go to get burned by another megaspell, brother." Cyber responded in kind, using his cybernetic trachea .

Melting, then, called his top gunboat, and told him to give another warning shot, but this time a little closer. The shot shook the C.C.SCIENCE, and the group of Bone Saw felt on the floor for the impact. By now, they had few options: flee or die .
Then, Bone Saw remembered something .

" Cyber, you said that you had bypassed the sprite-bot ."
" It's not that I want now to speak about spr-"
" Just tell me if there are some on the ship ."
" What the ... oh."

Cyber made a quick scan, while his brother was beginning to give the order to prepare for attack . On the ship, there was a good number of sprite-bot, ready to be bypassed by Cyber and to be used as a diversion. It was necessary, however, to stall, since the circuits of the cybernetic pony were still damaged.
Bone Saw went on the radio, and began to distract Melting and those present in the control room.

-=0=-

Meanwhile, in the main deck, a group of mercenaries were trying to understand why a sprite-bot had turned off, and why did it was making a noise similar to a sizzle.
After bringing it into the maintenance room and get away from there, the sprite-bot was activated, and flew out of there, to the engine room.

-=0=-

In the meantime, Melting had lost his patience, and was about to give the order to attack and break down the small airship of his opponents, while Bone Saw beginning to feel the abstinence for med-x.
However, he couldn't leave, or Melting had would surely opened fire.

" Cyber !" He shouted, calling his companion, " you have to... ah damned..."
" What do you want ? Don't you see that- "
" The cannons ! You must disable those cannons !"
" But I'm almost at the engi-"

A cannon shot and almost grazed the C.C.SCIENCE, followed by many others.
So Snow Flank raced at the helm, and began to make some quick evasive maneuvers, dodging the heavy blows, while Bone Saw and Thin Chain went on the lower deck, leaving Cyber on the main one.

-=0=-

Aboard the war airship, another sprite-bot had been bypassed by Cyber, this time closer to the cannons. With no time to get undiscovered, Cyber then gave the order to the sprite-bot to kill anyone it had found on the way. Gradually, the sprite-bot opened the road, killing mercenaries but being damaged and almost unable to shoot .
So, Cyber was forced to having to change again sprite-bot and waste time, while the Omen Lead was beginning to get the better.

" Uh, sir ?"
" What's there ?"
" From the lower decks our mercenaries are reporting that some sprite-bots are like... going crazy ."

The look of Melting was spurting anger, when he realized what his brother was doing , and so he gave orders to his engineers to turn off all the sprite-bots ship and hitting harder the C.C.SCIENCE .
Moments later, all the sprite-bot fell to the ground, except for one that had been bypassed by Cyber in time .

-=0=-

On the C.C.SCIENCE, meanwhile, Bone Saw had made a double dose of med-x, making his abstinence passing and putting him back in the field .
After running as fast as possible on the main deck, between a shake and the other he said it was time to fight back.

" I hired you because you're good to survive, not to kill yourself !" shouted Cyber, while he was driving in the meantime the sprite-bot on the Omen Lead.
" Now we are going to die anywhere !" shouted, laughing strangely, Bone Saw, " we might as well groped to take with us that ugly son of a bitch of your brother! "

Bone Saw shouted to Snow Flank to veer to the left, so that he could turn and fire with the frontal plasma cannon of the ship, but as soon as Snow Flank tried to tack, one of the bullets of the big cannons of the Omen Lead touched them, damaging the ship .
Bone Saw said to groped again, and the result was more disastrous than before, and a large part of the steel cables that was held the balloon of C.C.SCIENCE was damaged, unbalancing and making the ship even more staggering.
Thin Chain came running on the deck, shouting to don't listen her brother, since he was under the influence of the med-x.
Bone Saw began arguing with her sister and Snow Flank, creating more to stress Cyber, who was weary and tired.

-=0=-

On the Omen Lead, the sprite-bot was at the cannons room, and now he just had to destroy them .
Too bad they were much bigger than him.
Then, Cyber gave the order to the sprite-bot to fire the ammunition with his small laser beam of which it was equipped, and so he searched the big cannons ammunition, potentially explosive.
Finally, after a few minutes, he found the giant bullets, who one by one were went to reload the huge and destructive cannons .
Shortly before he could shoot, though, the little robot controlled by Cyber was thrown away by an old acquaintance.

" Hold still, you stupid can of my ass !" shouted Melting's favorite alicorn.

Broken Horn had managed to arrive in time in the cannons room, and began to bombard the robot with her rifles, missing it and beginning to damage one of the cannons . This gave an idea to Cyber.

-=0=-

On the small ship, meanwhile, Bone Saw was trying to take control of the ship, while Snow Flank and Thin Chain tried to unseat that crazy unicorn .

"Leave the helm !" shouted Bone Saw.
"Shnooow !"
"Let him, I said, you filthy bastard freak !"

Snow Flank, angry, baited Bone Saw on the left shoulder, above the mechanical prosthesis .
The unicorn, then pulled out his sawed-off shotgun and pointed it against Snow Flank, ready to shoot .
Fortunately, an heavy explosion from the Omen Lied stopped the unicorn .
Apparently, Cyber was able to use the fury of the alicorn against the ship, putting down the cannons, but consuming all his energy, causing him to faint.

-=0=-

" What's going on !?" yelled in panic Melting to his mercenaries, who where sitting around the command consoles, " It wasn't the engine, right ?"
" No, sir, it came from the bow ."
" We have the frontal cannons out, and the sensors detect a fire ."

Melting was grinding his teeth compulsively, while pummeled one of the steel walls of the room with his hoofs .
While everyone was trying to fix the mess that was it created, the members of the C.C.SCIENCE were preparing to attack.
With a few strokes of plasma cannon, the quartet of the small airship damaged part of the Omen Lead, while the crew of the latter began firing with the machine guns located on both sides of the huge airship.
Slowly and after dodging all shots they could, the C.C.SCIENCE managed to win, and began to turn upward, toward the control room, to finish once and for all the question .

"Bone Saw, look !" said Thin Chain, pointing her hoof towards a strange green light coming from the south mountains, " what is it ?"
" Wait, it seems... "

While Bone Saw were spoke, the light became more intense and close, while causing a shrill sound .
When the unicorn knew what was it, he yelled agitated to Snow Flank to turn away, but it was too late.
A powerful Balefire egg hit the small ship of the quartet, making her fall to the ground quickly .

-=0=-

"I did it ." began to say, more and more strong and happy Melting, "I did it! I killed that cyber beggar ! "
"Uh... sir ?"
" For over two hundred years I waited for this moment. Thanks Ancestor, thanks you so mu- "
" Sir, look that-"
" I hope it's important to your life, you worm ."

The mercenary reported at Melting that to hit the airship of his brother hadn't been them. Then, Melting began to ask everyone to understand from where that blow came from.

-=0=-

"Straighten the ship ! Straight it immediately ! "screamed in panic Bone Saw to Snow Flank.
"Shnoo Flaaank !" shouted the other, equally panicked .
" The engines are gone ! We will all die !" shouted Thin Chain while embracing his brother, afraid of what was coming.

As the ship fell, they heard three more whistles like the ones of moments ago, and three more explosions coming from above them. Probably, what had shot them down had also hit the Omen Lead, but now it wasn't the time to think about it, because a little later they would had die.
Unless...

" All around me, quick !" shouted Bone Saw to his traveling companions.

Once all three began near Bone Saw, the latter created a magic shield that enveloped them and cushioned the impact, but not without consequences. Thin Chain broke one of her legs, while Cyber was entangled between cables, which made him impossible to move, and Bone Saw had fainted for the exerted effort to create and maintain the shied.
The only one left standing was Snow Flank who, looking up to the sky, saw the Omen Lead falling right over their heads. Suddenly, he untied Cyber and woke Bone Saw with another bite, making him scream.

" Why in Tartarus did you..." said middle dazed and angry Bone Saw to Snow Flank.
" Snooo Flaaank !" yelled loudly the horrid colt, indicating the huge airship of Melting that was going to break down on them .
" Oh shit !"

Once he picked up Thin Chain, the unicorn teleported all four quite far away, so as not to be hit by the ship, and then all four run, if they wouldn't die for the flames or the debris, and were able to take shelter in time behind a rock, while the Omen Lead exploded on the ground, firing chips and other pointed sheets as if they were bullets .
Shortly after the explosion had end, the quartet decided it was better to move away, until Melting was still recovering on the lifeboats, who were floating above them.

" What... what was that thing ?" asked Bone Saw to Cyber, " I have never seen such a... thing like that in my life ."
" That's why I hired you ." said looking to south Cyber.
"... what ?"
" Do you think I would have paid so well to retrieve a whatsoever power source, Bone ?"

-=0=-

Up in the sky, meanwhile, the few troops of Melting who were saved, including a seriously injured Broken Horn, were regrouping, while their boss seething and shouting, cursing his brother and anyone who was follow him, while he settled his wig.

" Boss !" Shouted one of the mercenaries who was on the bridge, " what are we going to do ?"
" What seems to you ?" said, through clenched teeth, almost foaming at the mouth Melting, " We go south, you idiot !"
"But... Sir, with all my respect, they may attack us aga-"

Melting fired with his gun to the mercenary, hitting him in the chest and knocking him down.
Now, the crazy ghoul was knowing where to go, and he knew how powerful it was what he wanted, more than he thought.
The only thing now was to be faster than his brother.

Author's Note

I must say that I had almost no Idea for this character, so here we go, hope it is a bit good .

Ch.5

Much later, in the meantime, Bone Saw and the group had managed to camp in a cave far from the wreck of the Omen Lead, and finally were enjoying a few hours of peace, while the flying boats of Melting where flying over the area .
Cyber had also arranged as best as he could to fix the leg of Thin Chain, so that the poor ghoul hadn't had too many problems during the trip .
Now, Thin Chain was sleeping soundly, while Snow Flank tried to guard, although he was more sleeping than watching, but there were the other two awake, talking .

" And here's how one of the Gore twins had almost ate one of my buttock ." said Bone Saw, trying not to make too much noise .
" Very suggestive ." Cyber replied .
" Well, I had only two options: or I let myself get eat or I killed them ."
"... Look, I wanted to ask you, how long you're addicted of med-x ?"

Bone Saw sighed and looked Cyber while he thought if was better or not to tell him about his addiction.
So, he turned, he drew off his leather jacket and the shirt he had under it and showed his battered back, full of scratches and scars at the shoulder blades and spine, which some were even inflamed .
Cyber then scanned quickly the back of the unicorn, and he understood the gravity.

" I have these since I escaped from Fillydelphia, the day that certainly Red Eye made the revolution ." said with a melancholy tone Bone Saw .
" Who made them ?" Asked curious Cyber.
" I'd rather not talk about it ."
" Well, we're a team now, so it might as wel-"
" I said that I will not ever speak of when I ran away from that shit hole full of slavers !"

The scream of Bone Saw made slightly startled in her sleep Thin Chain, which now began to stir in her sleep, tossing some little kicks .
The big unicorn approached her, and put on her a hoof on her forehead to calm her down, so that her dreams were not bad memories of that hellish place she came from .
Once back from Cyber, the latter came with a proposal: in exchange for the story of Bone Saw, he would tell his .
Thus, the big unicorn prepared to tell, with the eyes to the past.

" Twenty-three years ago, there was the revolution of the Red Eye, and Fillydelphia was in the throes of revolt. No one would have paid attention to the slaves of the suburbs, so my sister and I took advantage of it, helped by one of our... friend ."
" Another slave, I suppose ."
" No. A former slave who become a guard."
" A slaver, then ?"
" Not exactly. He took care that the slavers not kill us and if we worked. However, he helped us get to the galleries, and from then on we would have to get by on their own ."
" And so you run away ?"
" Not until a slaver asshole discovered and tried to kill us ."
" Bad end ?"
" Check out my cutie mark. It's thanks to him that I've received it, along with a big hole in the cheek ."
" And then ?"
" And then the desert, the journey to Appleloosa, thirst, hunger, radiation and... well, my back. Damned Hellhounds ."
" And your... hoof ?"
" I work as a mercenary, so you should know ."

The two fell into a short silence, broken only by the snoring of Snow Flank, then both returned to talk, while Bone Saw continued to tell of the time when he worked for the Desert Crotales , the loss of the left hoof and how he came to Manehattan . Then, he asked to Cyber for tell his story, just to understand a little more about his cybernetic companion.
The story of Cyber not dwelt much on his wife, but rather he spoke of his family, the Cogs, and remarked one more time of the rivalry with his brother Melting, and then finally he added something new .
Bone Saw learned that the passion of Cyber for circuits and electronic mechanisms was born thanks to his uncle, a representative of the Ministry of Arcane Sciences, which often took him at work when the father was busy with Melting .
So, once he graduated in electronics and computer engineering with the maximum grades, he decided to work for the Ministry and, one day, he was also called by the Ministry of Morale to improve and fix some codes and routines of the sprite-bot project, succeeding in it, along with other scientists and engineers, to create the key codes of the robot-speakers. The speech was very long, but the two had to stop due to some boats of the Omen Lead that were beginning to fly very low and really close. And so, they decided simply to sleep and leave that place early .

-=0=-

The next morning, though still asleep, Bone Saw heard the voices of some ponies resounding in his head, causing him to wake up so .
When he turned to see of who were those voices, a quintet of pony pointed him machine guns, pistols and rifles. Raiders, there was no doubt.

" What are you doing here, you bastards ?" asked a pony with an all spiky armor, like a porcupine and a mangy mane, " you want to steal our ammunition, doesn't you !?"
" What ... look, beauty mane, take that little gun you have off my face or I swear that-"

Do the hard face didn't worked for Bone Saw, since they were five to one, also armed too . So, he decided it was time to wake Cyber, who was sleeping heavily.
After giving him two strokes on the back, the cybernetic pony sat up and jumped, staring at the weapons of the riders, and began to speak.
In a few times in his life Bone Saw thought he had made a suicidal move. The raiders took them out of the cave, and threw down the two. only now Bone Saw realized that someone was missing.

" Where are Thinny and that freak of Snow ?"
" Why, didn't you seen them ?"
" No. Maybe they've went to explore the cave ."
" I don't think ."
" So where do you think they a-"

A cry of pain came to the attention of all, from the bottom of the cave.
After a few seconds, a screaming pony left the cave, with his muzzle and a hoof half-chewed and torn, bleeding .
Bone Saw and Cyber immediately knew who had done that .

" Oi oi ! Calm down, dude ." said one of the raiders to the bleeding one, " What... what's in there, a hellhound ?"
" No, damn it !" Yelled frightened and shocked the other, " There is... a damn thing white and horrible in there!"
" One thing what !?" Screamed the mangy maned raider .
" A... but what the fuck I know, look what it did to me !"

Indeed, the mangy maned pony was quite horrified at the sight of the wounds, but he decided he wanted to send out a couple of those who were accompanying him, and even the two raiders didn't wanted to meet the beast that had reduced their mate so badly . Making himself courage, then, slowly walked to the cave, and took out his gun, a rusty piece of metal that would be more useful as a paperweight.
Minutes passed, and still nothing of the pony. By now, the other raiders were beginning to think that maybe it was better to go back to their base camp until they had their legs to run with, but then the mangy maned raider reappeared, full of bites and scratches, and with something on his back .
A white colt, dead .

" And this would be the thing that did this to you ?" asked angrily the mangy maned pony, while throwing the body of Snow Flank to the ground .
" No, no, no !" cried in fear the other, " bring it back, burn it !"

Bone Saw, meanwhile, was sorry for the loss of Cyber, but then realized that the latter was chuckling, and had a smug look.

" But... aren't you... ?"
" He's faking. Wait and see ."

The three Raiders who were next to Snow Flank, meantime, were examining the grotesque colt, getting closer and closer .
One, then, decided to approach in front of the colt, wanting to prove that he have more courage than the other two .

" You see, bunch of musk balls ? It's as good as de-"

The raider didn't finish the sentence that Snow Flank snapped to his muzzle, severing good part of meat and leaving the bone of the nose discovered, with ripped, blooding muscles . With his mouth covered in blood and with a furious expression, all hunched Snow Flank turned to the other two, emitting a terrifying verse.
The pony that run away from Snow Flank and the other with the mangy mane aimed their weapons, while the other two who kept an eye on Bone Saw and Cyber aimed their weapons against the two prisoners, urging the albino colt to not make false moves. Cyber told Snow Flank to listen, and to come to him, and so did the colt, sitting between his two companions .

" How many were you ?" asked the mangy maned pony .
" What do you care about of how ma-"
" Just us !" replied abruptly Cyber before Bone Saw say something that could complicate the situation .

The now four predators began to discuss whether to kill or take them to the base camp and, after some argument, they decided to take and then selling them as slaves. Bone Saw scowled Cyber, as did Snow Flank, while the cybernetic pony said it was the only logical option to do at that time, to then get sent to go to hell by Bone Saw and, in part, Snow Flank.

Now, only two questions leapt into the head of the big white unicorn, while the raiders were putting a magic-canceler ring on his horn and some chains: where the hell was his sister and who was the head of those stupid raiders .

" Hey, beauty mane !" shouted Bone Saw to the chief of the group, " where are we going ?"
" Shut up !" screamed the mangy maned pony, pulling punches to Bone Saw .
" Hnf... just wait until I can use my magic again and you'll see what..."

With a powerful kick, the mangy maned pony made Bone Saw unconscious, and so he remained in catalepsy for a while. Once awakened, he was together with some other ponies in a big open space, surrounded by a barbed wire fence and, outside of it, a large encampment of raiders .
In getting up, the big white unicorn felt like a weight around his neck and, reaching a hoof until it, he felt something cold and metallic. He really forgotten how is having an explosive collar around the neck.

" Hey, you're finally awake, Bone !" said in his unmistakable voice Cyber, " I thought that kick had procured a cranial hemorrhage, you know ?"
" You're very comforting, Cyber." said all groggy Bone Saw.
" However, I have to ask you something about some slavers said about you ."
" Oh yeah ? And what ?"
" Who is Scarred Bolt ?"

As might this could be difficult, Cyber saw Bone Saw suddenly get pale, while on his face was created an expression of fear and tension.
Can this Scarred Bolt could be so terrible to frighten a brave (and probably a bit suicidal) stallion like Bone Saw ?

" Hey, you, beanpole, come here !" shouted a pony of a purple color, and with a harpoon instead of the right hoof to Bone Saw, "The boss wants to talk to you ."
" Oooh, we're just not gonna talk about it." replied while snuggling Bone Saw.

The purple pony took, as best he could, a small remote control and pressed a button . The collar of Bone Saw began to vibrate, and a little green light lit .

" If you don't come here within thirty seconds, I'll have to send someone to clean your exploded brain ."

Bone Saw, then, got up and walked quickly toward the pony with the harpoon, for then get escorted out by the latter and three others .
While he was going to perhaps the only mare that could scare him in all the wasteland of Equestira, he looked for good the camp, observing possible escape way and supplies to reuse, along with a structure similar to a semicircular cage made of metal sheets and, nearby there, a stage on which slaves were sold.

" Here we are ." said the pony with the harpoon to Bone Saw, while they were in front of a very big tent, " Now, try doing something really stupid and I'll gonna shove my harpoon up your ass ."
" Why so much attention ?" asked, with a cold sweat, Bone Saw, " are you by any chance her boyfriend ?"
" Yes, you asshole beanpole ." replied the other very serious.

Inside the tent, there were eight raiders, heavily armored with steel armor and armed with machine guns. And at the end, sitting on a throne of pillows and scraps, Scarred Bolt, the fastest mare across Equestria, famous for having kill fifteen Pegasus of the Enclave with only a knife, as is said around.
Bone Saw had never forgotten the time he stole more than a thousand caps to that fast, attractive mare, with a Mohawk mane black and yellow and with two tails that passed the side of her face till the shoulder.

" Honey, I have a surprise for you." Said cheerful and smiling the pony with the harpoon.
" Oh yeah, and what is this ..." said, a little bored, Scarred Bolt, " you ."
" Eeeh yup ." said Bone Saw , staring at the mare.
" You ugly sleazy caps thief piece of shit !"

The mare pulled up and, after taking her beloved hunting knife, put it to the throat of Bone Saw, ready to open his carotid and so making him suffocating in his own blood .

Ch.6

"Uh, sir !" shouted one of the mercenaries of Melting, " we are running out of fuel !"
" Why, Ancestor, why now !?" yelled Melting from his boat .

By now, it was hours that they were flying to the south, and the boats weren't designed for long trips .
Melting was attempted to continue his aerial navigation, since he and his mercenaries were in advantage of his brother, but the reason prevailed, and he decided to go down and walk . While they let down, however, one of the mercenaries saw a lot of movement down there, on the ground, a huge fuss of sand, and he pointed it out to Melting .
Looking closer, the ghoul noticed that there were many ponies, or perhaps zebras, since they were whites and blacks, and the border of the land of the zebras was not that far away, but they were too distant to understand it . In any case, Melting gave orders to not land and to continue the navigation, with the full disapprove of his mercenaries, who began to complain the fact that, with the few fuel they all got, they would had fall shortly thereafter, and then they took out their weapons .
They were sick to follow their leader, who was still not listen and was sacrificing them, and now they no longer remembered why they decided to follow him . So, Melting refreshed their memory .
With its horrid hoof, the ghoul pulled out a remote control, the kind used to detonate explosive collars and, holding it, he showed the device to everyone .

" Listen to me, you miserable, filthy, shitty idiots ! When you first arrived in Steelhoover, you were all not more then slaves, and I've given you a second chance ."

Melting was about to press the button, while his mercenaries put the hooves at the neck, letting go all their weapons and imploring their leader to not push the button, and saying that they would carry on with the journey.

Meanwhile, in the camp of Scarred Bolt's gang, Bone Saw was trying not to get slaughtered like a pig from the gang leader mare .

" And what about the time I saved your fabulous buttocks from those slavers ?"
" You have knocked me out with a punch, you idiot !"
" But then I paid all the caps, though !"
" That I used to repair the damage you've caused to my old camp !"

The two went on for quite a while, while Harpooned Hoof bet with other riders that his " girlfriend " would first emasculate the large white unicorn and then kill him.
Scarred Bolt was increasingly tempted to stop with all those speaking, and now the knife she was holding on the neck of Bone Saw was beginning to make his mark, while the unicorn was sweating cold .

" Oh, I know, you're angry about that question about the whis-"

Scarred Bolt set a hoof on the muzzle of Bone Saw, for not making him finish his sentence. The mare, now, was really pissed off, and was only a breath was needed that she slaughtered the big white unicorn .
Harpooned Hoof went to Scarred Bolt, and offered her a little thing, just to entertain the other members of the group .

" Why don't you make him fight in the arena against Tanker ?"

Bone Saw felt the knife become loose, as well as the taking of the mare, and then he saw a sinister smug grin forming on Scarred Bolt's face .
Thus, he proposed a small bet: if Bone Saw had won the match, he and his two companions would be released without problems . Surely, there was a rip off somewhere, but he might as well die at the hands of someone else, rather then for of a angry mare ready to rip off his connotations .
So, he was brought back to the fenced area, so as to prepare for the meeting which would take place that evening .

" Hey, Bone Saw, look here !" said Cyber, cheerfully, " tah-dah !"

The cybernetic pony pointed to that grotesque being of Snow Flank, who now was wearing a red bandana on his head. At least now he seemed less creepy .
Bone Saw said what had happened and, in addition to the questions of Cyber regarding Scarred, he said what would had happened that night. Cyber began to make calculations, and now that its circuits were at least at half of their power, he could ensure that Bone Saw could do it, if he hadn't to fight against an alicorn or a hellhound.
The time passed, and it was almost time of the fight, but the head of Bone Saw was only on one thought: where the hell was his sister ?

" Sawie, over here !" said an unmistakable voice, on the other side of the fence .

Bone Saw immediately recognized his sister, who was disguised as a rider and had also changed hairstyle. His brother asked her where the hell she have been, and she said to have saw approaching some ponies, hours before, and that she had tried to wake him and Cyber, but the two were sleeping very heavily, and then she took refuge in the bottom of the cave, together with Snow Flank .
Apparently, that monster wasn't so bad, after all .
Thin Chain said that she had a plan to help his brother to escape, but he would have to take time in the arena, as she would have detonated the ammunition's tent, where there were also explosives .

" Stay calm, Thinny," said Bone Saw casual, " that crazy of Scarred Bolt have pr-"
" Scarred Bolt is here !?" said the mare, drawing the attention of a few raiders .

Fortunately, the sound of a siren did made the two raiders go away. The time of the clash had come for Bone Saw. Where there was the arena, there were approaching a small group of predators, and Thin Chain knew it was time to act. And to tell something very important to his brother .

" Sawie, be careful ."
" But why ? Cyber said that- "
" Forget Cyber and listen me. I saw your adversary and... "

The group of raiders hurried, seeing Thin Chain, and then she went away quickly .
Bone Saw, then, went out escorted by the raiders, which brought him in front of the large metal cage, made of metal sheets and iron bars, all surrounded by the members of the gang of Scarred Bolt, screaming with joy for the fight and insulting the unicorn . After a few meters, the white unicorn came in front of the iron gate that led into the arena, and there Harpooned Hoof was waiting, with an evil grin printed on his face, which opened the door . Once inside, Scarred Bolt prepared to talk to over the arena, on a treadmill right above the white unicorn, but she was interrupted by one of his guards, who told her that it was an important thing and that she needed to come immediately, and so the mare couldn't make her speech, with the regret of all .
But Harpooned Hoof taken her place, very happy to be able to dictate the likely end of his hated prisoner . After a brief thank to all the raiders of the group and some dig, he presented the adversary of the unicorn, Tanker . Everyone began to beating their hooves on the ground or on the cage in rhythm, repeating the name of Tanker, getting louder, while the main gate in front of Bone Saw opened .
Slowly, it entered in the arena with really heavy steps an earth pony: it may be difficult to believe, but the stallion was much taller than Bone Saw, and incredibly muscular, with his legs full of cuts and with his face disfigured on the right side and without an eye, while on the back he had a strange and somewhat disturbing device, which was pumping a crimson liquid .
Once inside, he looked down upon Bone Saw, with the astonishment of the latter, which had always thought to be the highest un-alicorn of the wasteland .

" I'll spare you the usual line of ' what your mother had gave you to eat when you were just a little colt', " said Bone Saw all tense and ironic, as he stared at the giant in the eye," but seriously, what in Tartarus have gave you to eat ?"

Tanker was getting furious, and charged against Bone Saw, who dodged the attack and gave a punch on the side of the giant with his mechanic hoof who, however, turned out to be completely ineffective . The huge stallion then turned, and gave in turn a couple of punches to the little unicorn on both sides and head, to then thrown him a few meters further on .

" Tanker no big !" shouted with his cavernous voice the giant, " pony be dwarfs !"
" Hnn... well, let me tell you..." said, as he tried to get up, Bone Saw, " at least all the other ponies are smarter than you ."

Once again, the giant charged Bone Saw, who now was beginning to understand how, perhaps, give more time to his sister to blow everything up. After having barely dodged the attack once again, the unicorn tried to move to the right side of his opponent, so to have a hope of using the partial blindness of the brute .

" So, let me understand, you shows up after nearly two years and you want... that I free him just right now ?"
" Exactly ."
" Forget it, my sweat hearth."
" Scarred, please !"

Thin Chain was desperately trying to convince Scarred Bolt to end the fight and to free his brother and the other two, but the leader of the gang of raiders wasn't listen to any reason . The ghoul, then, tried to remember the mare of the old days ( which is about two years earlier ), as when Bone Saw saved and cured her.
Then, Thin Chain tried to remember even the fact about the bottles of whiskey, but again Scarred Bolt didn't want to hear anything of what happened that night, becoming clearly sad . After a moment of silence, the rider decided that she would think of, but that she would have left to finish the match .

" Now Tanker stew horned pony ." Said the giant pony, as he held with a hoof Bone Saw, " Tanker slays and eats pony !"
" Well, be quick ugly retarded, your breath is already killing me !"

By now, the time of Bone Saw was near, and yet the unicorn wondered what the hell was doing his sister . The raiders was yelling at Tanker to kill Bone Saw, and the giant seemed to be happy to hear the crowd. Too happy. And too distracted .
Bone Saw took the opportunity to take off the magic-canceler ring who, in the clash, was getting loose and now, with his horn free, he could easily fight against the brute .
With a magic arrow shot in the giant's face, Bone Saw broke free from the grip of Tanker, who was now even more angry, and tried to hit the unicorn again with his powerful hooves, failing . Bone Saw was gaining time and energy, managing to parry with a magic shield the attacks and the hits of the giant, which became more and more angry .
However, each hit was heard, especially on the back of the white unicorn, which was beginning to feel strong thick, while his protective barrier was slowly failing .

" Tanker sees pony pain ! Tanker knows !" said the brute, shouting furiously," Tanker's tanks relieves pain !"

Bone Saw then thought of a crazy and even dangerous idea: if the tanks of that abomination didn't make him feel pain, then it meant that they were full of med-x, and then remove them would be enough to beat him. Too bad that this meant lower the magic shield .
There was not much time left, the pain was too strong and the giant was quite out of his mind to try something .
Suddenly, Bone Saw lowered the barrier, and dodged to one side of Tanker, while this was on both hind legs .
Thus, thanks to his magic, the unicorn tore from the device placed on the back of the giant one of the two tanks, together with one of the tubes which were stuck in one of the arteries of the brute. Thanks to the med-x content in it, Bone Saw felt he could face a hundred ponies, and now he could finally put an end to his abnormal issue .
Using a magical charge, he flew the stallion toward one of the walls of iron of the arena, making him slam and, meanwhile, breaking part of the device that the brute had on his back. The giant now seemed to suffer a lot, without the full help of the x-med, and Bone Saw began to beat him in rage, caused in part by his priceless drug .
Then, as the crowd shouted joyful, cheering now the unicorn to kill Tanker, one of the guards ran screaming in panic towards Harpooned Hoof, stumbling and stamping the hooves of other raiders, for then take among his filthy hooves the microphone .

" The Foals !" cried the pony panicked, " the Foals of the Apocalypse are here !"

While everyone, suddenly agitated, were preparing to their attack positions, Tanker laughed with joy, saying that his brothers and sisters had come to take him back at home . An explosion caused by a missile opened a breach in the arena, and in it entered four ponies, painted white and black, with motifs like stripes, and armed with guns and rudimentary weapons.

" Let our brother go, walking meat !" shouted a mare of the quartet, pointing his machine gun between his teeth .
" Yeah... walking meat !" said another pony, as he licked his teeth from the appetite .

Around the arena, the chaos was spread among the raiders of Scarred Bolt and the Foals of the Apocalypse, who were having the best thanks to their attack surprise . In the clash, Bone Saw sees coming toward him, running at an incredible speed for a earth pony, Scarred Bolt, with her knife in the mouth. With a jump, the mare attacked one of the four striped raiders, ripping his throat, and then move on to another and another again, very quickly, and letting run the last .

" So you love me now ?" said sarcastically Bone Saw, only to find himself again with the knife of the mare to the throat .
" I'm not doing this for you, you bag of..."

Tanker hited the mare, bumping her against one of the walls still standing of the arena and making her unconscious, and then run away screaming from there . Bone Saw was tempted to leave and let the mare to die, but in the end decided to carry her on his back, and then go away . Now, all that remained to do was to find his sister and the other two . Thin Chain, meanwhile, had freed Snow Flank and Cyber, and they too were trying to find Bone Saw . While roamed the devastated camp of raider, they were attacked by the Foals, who in some cases turned to flight the three, thus increasing their research and risking to couldn't get of that hell that had been created .
Then, after killing and have escaped from those crazy painted savages, they managed to find Bone Saw, which was massacring one of the Foals . Thin Chain called him, and so the quartet was reassembled. Cyber asked what the hell he was doing with the mare that nearly killed them on the back of the unicorn, and Bone Saw said it was time for repaying an old favor .
So, without too much chatter, they fled, leaving the field and heading southwest, far from there .

Hours later, there remained only rubble of the camp and the few survivors, taken from the Foals of the Apocalypse who were celebrating by eating the corpses of the dead raiders, much to the disgust of the prisoners .
Then, all those wild savages stood up, when they saw a vehicle being transported by another eight Foals, armed with mortars, with a tent attached to a rear cockpit full of spikes, and from which came down a zebra, wearing a long red tunic with circular yellow motif on the flanks .
What scared the survivors was the face of the zebra, or rather, the skull carried on him, with a lots of tongues attacked and stitched as if they were long dreads .
All the present Foals bowed down to what, clearly, was their leader, who was approaching the poor survivors, and aiming directly to Harpooned Hoof .

" Where is the cyborg ?" asked with a hoarse and raspy voice the zebra to Harpooned Hoof .
" And what the fuck can I know, you piece of striped shit !" replied angrily Harpooned Hoof, spatting on the mask.
" Don't ya say that to daddy, you maimed eat... bastard !" shouted a pony, hunchback, scarred and with part of the right face crippled, with a welder's google on the right eye as a monocle .

The zebra motioned to calm down to the pony, and going to lend a hand to Tanker, rather, only to turn back to the raider with the harpoon .
Looking him straight and with eyes narrowed, the zebra told his Foals to bring out Harpooned, and to take him at the center of the camp. Then, with a knife literally attached to his right front leg, the zebra began to rip the tongue of Harpooned off his mouth,making him scream in pain and making the prisoners turning pale.
Once completely detached, the zebra put his trophy in a pocket of his tunic, and said to tie Harpooned to a pole.

" Blasting !" cried the zebra, to a pony with two flamethrowers and with half of his body burned.
" Tell me, boss ." said the pony with the flamethrower, with his voice clogged by the respirator that covered his muzzle .
" For how we hadn't eat yet ?"
" Well... maybe six hours ?"

The zebra turned to Harpooned, looking pleased for his agony, and said to his precious ponies that was now to have breakfast.
And that food wouldn't be missed for a while.

" Uh... don't you all feel like an inviting smell of grilled meat?" said, sniffing the air and with the mouth-watering Cyber to his traveling companions, who were now long gone from the camp from hours.

Author's Note

I... don't think this is a good chapter, but let me know if I'm wrong, guys and whoever is reading this story.
Btw, thanks to everyone who is reading this FoE side story :twilightsmile: