"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