Fallout: Equestria - Heart of the Goddess .

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 .