Fallout Equestria: Bloodsisters

Chapters

Prologue: Abandoned
Chapter One: Memories
Chapter Two: Bounty Hunter.

Prologue: Abandoned

Prologue: Abandoned

* * 10 years ago * *

It was a beautiful day outside, birds are singing, grass started regrowing, brahmins were grazing, and on days like these foals should be having fun playing games like tagged, but today we will be focusing on three specific foals. There do you see them running happily through the hills? Running up the hill were two little white unicorn fillies, and rolling down the hill was an energetic blue unicorn colt, but little did they know that tragedy would strike that day. Each foal had a name that represent their special gifts, one filly could hit a moving bird meters away with only a pistol, though the weapon proved too strong for her, the other filly was fast, and was claimed to see a bullet that was shot at her, but nopony ever tried so we don't know for sure, but she was also good with sharp objects being able to slice a cement slab with a swift, but strong slash, and the colt was a magnificent spell caster being able to become a spectre at any giving time, but this colt follows the hoofsteps of his father in becoming a doctor, these foals like many others are special in their own way, but two of the foals in particular will experience something in their lives that will change forever.

" Hey, Deadshot, Razor Edge, would you like to come over here and give this old stallion a hoof?" a silver haired Stallion called out. The fillies looked down to the stallion, and happily rolled down the hill to the stallion's aid.

" You know you're not that old Silver Gun." a blue stallion objected, the Silver haired stallion looked over to him with a scrunched up face.

" Well, you see String Cutter, I count as old, because of all this back pain I'm feeling." Silver Gun snickered.

" Well I'm an actual doctor, so I say you need to relax a bit." String Cutter replied, and giving off one heck of a laugh too, on the other hoof Silver Gun was snickering trying his best to hold in a laugh, but failed to do so as the two fillies were trying to pick up some of their father's tools with their still developing magic.

" Well daddy isn't old, but he's still way older than us." Deadshot pointed out, in a squeaky high pitched tone.

Silver Gun just gave a smile and got back to work along with the fillies helping him, Silver Gun is now a carpenter for new Ponyville, ever since Ponyville was taken back from raiders, with the help of a lot of ponies, he and String Cutter were among the group of ponies that cleared out Ponyville of the raiders that inhabited it, it took three days of fighting until Ponyville was cleared of raiders, it was also during those three days when he met his wife, this was 5 years ago.

The stallion and his fillies were walking back to Ponyville, but when all of a sudden smoke was sighted in the center of town, as all hell broke loose, fires were started and buildings were being destroyed, but who could have done this. As Silver Gun ran down the streets of Ponyville, he made it to the center of all the chaos as he stood face to face, with a black earth pony with a large scar across his face wearing heavily armored raider gear, but he was definitely no ordinary raider, he's was the leader of this attack. String Cutter and his foal were following closely behind Silver Gun and the his fillies, but Silver Gun knew it was too dangerous for them to be there. Silver Gun thought to himself that either himself or String Cutter would have to take the foals while the other fights off the raiders, so Silver Gun made up his mind on what to do.

" String Cutter I need you to get the foals out of here, you got that?" Silver Gun ordered in a calm tone, String Cutter didn't try to argue as he swooped up all three foals and made a break for.

When String Cutter thought they were safe from the chaos and disorder, they all decided to retreat to the fillies home near the edge of town but only to find it in ruins and burning to the ground, but among the rubble laid a mare trapped by the debris of her own home, as the fillies Attempted to save her String Cutter was hold them back. Since he was unable to help, with his magic not being strong enough, he couldn't have lifted the debris crushing the mare off, and the foal's magic aren't fully mastered, so they too were unable to help either. But that didn't stop Deadshot from trying, as she ran to her mother's side trying to push the debris with all the might her tiny body could muster.

" Just forget about me, I'm already done for, but if you don't get away from me you'll get crushed too." the mare tried to warn, but Deadshot wouldn't stop she just couldn't.

" We can't just leave you here!" Deadshot contested, not wanting to leave her mother's side. The mare looked up at String Cutter to request one last favour.

" String Cutter, get them as far as possible from here you got that, and you two." the mare looked at her two fillies, coughing and spitting out blood. "Take care of your dad for me." the mare added with a sad smile as String Cutter pulled Deadshot away before more debris fell and crushed her too. So there they were, two fillies crying for their mother as String Cutter carried them to safety. String Cutter spotted an abandoned hospital which to him looked like a good place for them to hide. As String Cutter opened and stepped through the door he was greeted by the barrel of a rifle, held by a cloudy blue pegasus stallion wearing a brown trench coat.

" Don't move or ah'll shoot ya." the stallion ordered.

" Don't shoot!"String Cutter pleaded. " It's just me Swift Nimbus ." the blue unicorn added.

" Ya know ah could've killed ya, String Cutter." the cloudy blue pegasus mumbled with his rifle's mouth grip in his mouth.

" Well I'm glad you didn't." String Cutter replied relieved that he didn't get shot.

* Three hours later *

Later that day after Silver Gun was able to fight off the slavers with the help of the town's ponies who were willing to fight. Silver Gun was soon searching for his family and friend. He was able find out that String Cutter and the foals were hiding in an abandoned hospital from a pony who saw where they were headed, as Silver Gun galloped passed his house and got a glimpse of the aftermath, after seeing his home in ruins, he was praying that his family was safe, as he approached the hospital he heard somepony talking inside.

" Longshot ah need you to go over there with the foals, String Cutter, come with me." the voice whispered, and quite loudly too. Silver Gun slowly pushed the door open with his magic, and as he entered he expected somepony to shoot him, and he was kinda right as he was greeted by the barrel of a revolver and a rifle.

" Don't move or we'll shoot." String Cutter ordered after he appeared pointing a revolver to Silver Gun's head, but he was stunned at the sight of his best friend Silver Gun, because he knew full well that he's the only one that can break the bad news to his friend.

" For the love of Celestia, we almost shot ya Silver Gun!" mumbled Swift Nimbus as there was a mouth grip of a gun in his mouth.

" Have you seen my wife, String Cutter?" Silver Gun asked, worried about the safety of his wife and foals, but since the foals were with String Cutter he didn't worry much.

" I-I'm sorry Silver Gun, she didn't make it." String Cutter replied with sorrow in his voice, clearly mourning the death of a friend that he couldn't save.

" No, this can't be happening." Silver Gun whispered as he slumped on the door behind him, but then remembered something very important too.

" W-what about Deadshot and Razor Edge, they must be ok, they were with you right?" Silver Gun asked frantically, fearing that he'd lose his foals too. String Cutter didn't speak, but he nodded and pointed in the room where they were hiding, thus putting Silver Gun to ease.

After reuniting with his foals, Silver Gun couldn't help but noticed that Deadshot's face looked as cold as ice, so he thought to himself that she must have been affected the most by her mother's death since she had a deep connection with her mother. So Silver Gun pulled her into a tight embrace, telling her that everything was going to be ok, receiving a quiet giggle from Deadshot, as she nuzzled up to her father's warm embrace, and so Silver Gun kept her company throughout the whole night.

The next day all the survivors of the attack gathered and started clearing up the debris, one of the first houses to be uncovered was Silver Gun's home, and under the debris laid a white unicorn mare, Silver Gun had immediately recognized the who it was and started to sob.

After all of the dead were uncovered they were all given a proper burial with grave stones, except the dead raiders. After the burials Silver Gun was seen talking to String cutter wearing an old dusty cloak, and a silver and gold revolver with a small metal pony skull hanging on a chain from the mouth grip was holstered to his side.

" I'm leaving for a while, so don't expect me coming back for a every long time, this'll be my last adventure so I'd like you to take care of those two bundles of joy for me." Silver Gun requested walking off into the horizon. The two sisters, but mostly Deadshot, were heartbroken by the news that their father had left, and Deadshot had believed that she was abandoned by her father.

The day of the tragedy, now named the Ponyville Massacre by the survivors of the attack, and it was also the day Deadshot's home was destroyed and the day her mother died right in front of her eyes, and on the next day Silver Gun left Ponyville, leaving Deadshot in the care of his friend, and for all it was worth changed Deadshot entirely either for better, or for worse, but little did she know that another life changing event was just lying in wait for her.

* two years later*

" Hey check this out sis." a blue maned unicorn filly called to her sister.

" What is it?" a white coated unicorn filly asked.

" I don't know, some kind of sword?" the blue maned unicorn filly answered.

" Maybe you should have it Razor Edge, I'm not good with swords." the white unicorn filly suggested.

" Sooo, whatcha doin Deadshot?" an electric blue unicorn colt asked.

" None of your business Spectre." Deadshot replied. As the three foals walked back home the colt ran ahead. But soon the two fillies ran when sirens were sounding off, as the foals made it back home a vicious group of raiders attacked, Deadshot and her sister were not ones to back down, as the raiders came closer to the town Deadshot was on a building's rooftop holding a .308 caliber rifle, Deadshot was aiming for heads as every shot she makes would take off a raider's head, while on the other hoof Deadshot's sister was slashing away at raiders, as Deadshot was about to reload she saw a raider jump on her sister, with no time to reload Deadshot jumped down and ran to her sister's aid, Deadshot kicked the raider off of her sister and stayed by her side shooting at raiders while Razor Edge slashed any raider too close for Deadshot to shoot, all of the raiders were being killed quickly as a single raider would drop for every shot Deadshot made and every slash Razor Edge made.These two are those that would fight by each other's side end until the bitter end, these two fillies are young but they were Bloodsisters until the very end.

*End of prologue*

Chapter One: Memories

Chapter One: Memories

"War, war never changes…."

….But ponies do. My name is Deadshot, I am a unicorn mare with a white coat, and my mane and tail are an awesome black and white, with a stripe of red, my eye colour is Silver, kind of like my mom. My cutie mark is a sniper rifle's reticle, but I also have a twin sister named Razor Edge, and she's a total sword nut, she'll go on and on, about the sharpness of blades and their quality, if you've guess it already my sisters' cutie mark is two swords in an X shaped cross, she's a white coated unicorn, with an electric and ocean blue mane and tail, both tipped with red, and her eyes are a dark blue colour. Oh, and I tend to ramble a lot, so please bear with it.

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The day was cool as always, my sister and I were out scavenging like normal, until I saw something at the corner of my eye.

" What the hell was that!?" I shouted as I ran to where I saw a shadow duck behind some rubble.

" What did you see sis?" Razor Edge asked while walking up to me.

"Well, I thought I saw something ran passed here." I answered, now I was really befuddled, because it was just here.

" Was it a raider, or a ghoul?" Razor Edge curiously asked.

" Not a chance, it was too small to be a raider or a ghoul." I replied, but I was thinking of something small, like a radroach or something.

" Maybe it was a midget raider, or feral foal ghoul?" Razor replied back snickering.

" This is no laughing matter Razor Edge! We're facing an unknown creature here, and possibly an enemy!" I retorted. We searched around the area for about half an hour, then I tripped over something, and with a quick *eep* escaping my mouth just before I hit the ground. I looked up to see what I tripped over, but I wish I hadn't as my eyes widened in horror as to what I saw.

I screamed at the top of my lungs, I never knew that I could scream at such a high pitch, but the object that I tripped over was a corpse, I dared to look at the body again, and saw what was once a pegasus. The wings were a dead give away, but the equipment was in good shape, and the body was still fresh. A few minutes later I awoken from my shock when I heard Razor Edge's hoofsteps coming closer towards me.

" What's wrong sis, I heard you scream, so I thought you were hurt, or some-" her voice at first was worried, but then trailed off as she saw the body, then she too let out a scream, but it wasn't because it was a dead body that made us scream, it wasn't because the body is still fresh, but it was because the body was brutally ripped to shreds, it looked like it's guts were ripped out of it, and the face was ripped up really badly to the point you can't tell who it is, but I think it was once a mare due to the body size and image, wow she must've been really pretty, then a thought occurred, so something recently killed this mare, meaning it's probably still around, so I said the most obvious thing anypony would if they were a leader.

" We gotta go, now!" I shouted, something about that dead pony just doesn't feel right to me, so we ran as fast as we could away from the body.

While running we saw a decent building to hide in, so we proceeded to run into the building to find shelter. Once inside we had to calm down to assess the situation, we were thinking about what could have left that body in its state, only one thing we know around here could have caused it, a feral ghoul, they are especially known to eat pony guts, and they only like to eat the organ, mostly since it's easier for them to chew it, but that doesn't explain why the pony was brutally ripped to shreds to the point where it was beyond recognition.

* * * *

We must've sat there for a few hours, because when we first saw the body the sun was a little bit away from setting, but now it's just halfway passed the horizon. Luckily I made my very own night vision goggles, since it would take a half day or so to get back to Tenpony tower from where we are, we were planning on leaving near sunset, but I guess not, luckily only the ghouls here are active at night, but lucky for us they suck at searching, they just wait for a pony to get close to them and then they pounce on you.

" I guess we'll have to set up camp for tonight, let's check the whole building so we don't have to worry about a feral in here." I suggested, but right at that moment we both heard something moving in one of the rooms. I slowly approached the door with Razor Edge following close behind me, I opened the door expecting a feral ghoul to jump at me and bite my face off, but instead a dog jumped out of the room and knocked me over onto my back licking my face, like, a lot. This dog was really strong, it had a brown coat with a big black circle or oval on it's back, and I think it's a female.

" I think it likes you Deadshot." Razor Edge said with a snicker. While on the other hoof I'm pinned to the ground being licked by a probably 130 to140 pound dog.

" Ah! Stop licking *pfft* my face!" I said, as I now gently pushed the dog off, if she's going to live with us then we need to give her a name.

" What should we name her sis?" I asked Razor Edge.

" Well, she did jump you good, how about Jumper?" she suggested.

" How 'bout it girl?" I asked the dog. The dog licked my face again, making me spit like crazy all over again.

" Jumper it is then." my sister said with a giggle following those words.

" Well I don't think she caused the dead body we saw earlier." I stated, one reason being that a dog would stick with their food, and guard it from other creatures.

" Why not?" Razor Edge asked, second reason.

" Well there's no smell of on her, and the body was still fresh." I answered, now I'm curious, what kind of ghoul could cause that. Whatever it was, we'll have to find out, plus we need to go back for that gear anyways.

" How 'bout we go for that gear first tomorrow morning, then we can get the hell out of here." I suggested, Razor Edge just simply nodded.

" Good plan, this place was giving me a bad vibe since we got here." Razor Edge replied, with that she went to sleep, as always I start the first half of the night watch.

*Later that night*

I was staring out onto the streets of the city ruins which I think this was once Baltimare, the signs on the way here were faded, but you could make out some words. An hour later I snapped out of my daydreaming when I heard some ponies walking along the street, so went ahead and got my night vision, and by the looks of it, they were raiders, I really hate raiders, then something or rather somepony caught my eye, there they were pushing a mare in chains ahead of them, as I watched a little longer I finished checking what kind of weapons they had, as luck would have it they have really bad weapons, one of the raiders had a pool cue, four of them had 10mm pistols, and one had a riot shotgun and in good condition as well. I guess I'll take out the ones with the pistols first since they'll have better accuracy, then I'll shoot the one with the shotgun, then the pool cue wielding raider can go last. There were about six raiders walking along casually, I had 10 shots thanks to me customizing this rifle. I took aim for the first target's head, I calmed my breathing, and pulled the trigger. *suppressed gunshot* and whoa! The raider's head goes flying off, the others were looking around trying to find where the a sniper could, but there were tons of places where a sniper could be, and I was lying on my belly shooting at them through a large hole in a wall, and luckily I attached a suppressor on my rifle, I lined my shots five more times and shot five more times. *suppressed gunshot* oh, shit! Right through the eye and out the upper back of the head, that's where the brain is, and exploded in a big bloody explosion, that bullet must've moved a lot in there. *suppressed gunfire* Ow, right through the lung, that raider collapsed and started coughing up blood. * suppressed gunshot* aw gross, that shot just took the raider's privates off, *Gack* I can't even look, the raider fell over clutching his privates, saying one thing.

"FUCK!" screamed private no privates, I'm called him private now because he seems to be a newish raider, and no privates because, you know.

"Show yourself you cunt!" one of the raiders shouted, they really love that word, but there's no way in hell a sniper would give away their position, the raider that told me to show myself was the shotgun carrying one, but not for long. * suppressed gunshot* perfect hit, I shot his neck as the bullet went through his windpipe and jugular, I'd like to see him try and talk now. Hey I'm no doctor, but when you're a sniper you've gotta find fatal spots to shoot at, the raider was coughing and spitting out blood, not so tough now huh, but there's still one raider left. * suppressed gunshot* holy mother of celestia, I just shot a mare through the heart, and out through the same area where her uterus should be. Welp, I guess you can say that I broke her heart, haha, those raiders never stood a chance. I waited a few more minutes just in case there were more raiders, but when the coast was clear I walked out of the building to find the mare. Some of the raiders were still kicking, but they've all received fatal injuries, so they'll die no matter what, but I walked up to the pony who had the shotgun, I spat in his face, as I pulled out a long rebar from the rubble with my magic as I stared into the eyes of the raider with an emotionless face, he returned a smiling yet pained look. My mouth made a wide smile from ear to ear as the raider soon looked at me in horror, why should he look at me like? Raiders will kill anypony they see just to eat them, so in anger I stabbed the shotgun using raider in the heart. As I walked up to Private no privates who was still clutching the area where his privates used to be, he looked up at me in terror, as did all the other survivors, so I stabbed all the surviving raiders in the heart, they screamed in pain but I blocked out their screams, I could care less about their pain.

Soon after I finished off the remaining raiders it started to rain heavily, but it kinda fits the mood, but not too long later I found the mare hiding behind some rubble still in her chains, I slowly approached her not sure if she'll attack me or not, but I think she's too scared to do that, mostly because she was curled into a ball, I couldn't blame her, I just finished off five raiders, without any remorse, albeit nopony would really care if I killed a raider or not.

" Hey, are okay?" I asked in a calm warming tone, she slowly uncurled but still too scared to move, I reached out to give her a hoof, but she was looking back and forth from my hoof and my face, why my face? After a few minutes of this akward of staring contest she reached her hoof out and wrapped her hoof around mine, I walked her back to the building we were in and woke Razor Edge up to ask her if she could take other watch, she just closed her eyes and told me to wait, a few lockpicks later I got the cuffs of off the mare. Razor Edge finally switched out with me and took over the night watch a couple minutes after I got the chains off of the mare, so while Razor Edge stood watch I was comforting the mare, I lit up a fire with my magic so that it could warm the mare up since she seemed really cold, and it was also cold at night here, but now that I look closely her coat was white too, but a little dirty probably due to the raiders, and she's a pegasus too, how awesome is that, all we need now is an earth pony. Her mane and tail were really long, and they were a light pink and white colour, but what caught my attention was her cutie mark, and no I was not staring at her flank, I don't swing that way, but her cutie mark was a light blue caduceus which is an ancient medical symbol that I found in an old book back in tenpony tower, the symbol sits in the blank space of a crescent moon.

" Umm..are you a doctor?" I asked curiously, because there weren't many doctors in the wasteland.

" Uh…y-yeah." she replied shyly, okay then we're dealing with that kind of pony, huh.

" My name is Deadshot what's yours?" I asked, this is going to be hard to talk to her.

"Moonstone s-stitches." she whispered.

" I-I'm sorry, what was that?" I asked kind of stumbling with my words.

" M-Moonstone S-stitches." the shy mare replied again, but slightly more louder, wow, what a long name.

" Okay then, if it's ok with you I'll just call you Moonstone." I asked, the shy mare just nodded her head, I kind of think she'll agree to anything.

" Allow me introduce you to the the family, the mare over there is my twin sister Razor Edge, the dog's name is Jumper, and she's a recent member, and now we have you, if you want to join us of course." I added, talking really quick.

" Wait, you'd actually let me be a part of your family?" Moonstone asked, as she started to tear up, but excited at the same time.

" Sure why not, plus my sister and I suck when it comes down to medical issues anyway." I answered chuckling, but I soon remembered something important.

" Anyway, how and why were you captured by raiders in the first place?" I asked, because one does not simply give themselves to raiders.

"Well, I'm a medic for a caravan, or was, but we were hit by raiders on our way to tenpony in manehatten, but we decided to go through Baltimare, and that didn't end well as you can see." Moonstone replied slightly shaking, oh the horrors she must've seen, somepony should have told them about the Devil's jaws gang which is a gang of raiders, but they're quite small in numbers though.

" Well no need to fear, because you're safe with us." I remarked, wow, what a bold faced lie.

" Ha, safe my flank, we're running into danger all the time." whispered Razor Edge as she grimaced at the thought, but with a slight amusement in her tone, it's as if she's implying something, or foreshadowing something every time she says something like that.

" I-I'm sorry, d-did I say something wrong?" the questioned sheepishly.

" Ahhh…n-nothing, nothing at all!" Razor Edge denied, though she's bad at hiding a lie, I can easily see a sweat drop sliding down her face.

" Anyway that was a nice chat and all, but*YAWN*I think we should catch some sleep before sunrise." I suggested, tired from my shift of night watch. After I got a sleeping bag out for our new friend/family, both Moonstone and I tucked ourselves into our sleeping bags, as my blue haired sister got back to work guarding us from an attack, or wake me up to start shooting ponies, and so we closed our eyes and fell asleep, but not before Jumper gave me a goodnight lick.

* * * *

I opened my eyes to an empty white space, this place felt so peaceful, so calm, I feel like I've had a dream like this before, but most of the time I'd forget the dream, I was feeling peaceful, but when all of a sudden out of nowhere*Deadshot* somepony called out my name. *Deadshot* there it is again, I was curious yet a little frightened, so I did the obvious.

" W-who's there!?" I demanded, but for some odd reason, I kind of feel like I knew who it was.

" Have you forgotten me already Deadshot?" a ghastly female voice echoed.

" W-who are you?! what do you want from me?!" I demanded again, but I was legitimately scared now.

" Don't you remember Deadshot?" the voice asked, just before the atmosphere changed from warm, to cold as a chill went down my spine.

" YOU LET ME DIE!" the female voice boomed, then a flash image of a house burning flashed in my mind for just a second.

" What was that?" I cried, but nopony answered. After that everything around me faded to black

* * * *

I jumped out of my sleeping bag as I woke up from my dream with a loud thud, I had awoken in shock and at the same time, I had a really bad headache now as my forehead had just bashed itself on something hard.

" Ow ow ow." a voice said whimpering, I looked up to see Moonstone rubbing her forehead with her hoof.

" Careful Moonstone, you don't wanna get close to her, Deadshot is a huge drama queen every morning." Razor Edge teased, she does this every time we meet somepony new, and sometimes it really annoys me, but I was kind of getting into a joking mood today.

" *Gasp* oh, I am not, I can't believe you, my own sister, would say that!" I sassed pretending to be shocked with my hoof on my forehead, pointing in the other direction of me looking like I was going to faint.

" See, what did I tell you, drama queen." Razor Edge chuckled, Moonstone was laughing too, which kinda made me blush.

" Whatever, anyway lets check that body one more time before whatever left that dead corpse behind come back for seconds." I suggested, it's never a bad time to joke around every now and then, Moonstone looked confused, but she went with it, and with that we were heading off to where the corpse was, when we stepped out of the building, the bodies of the six raiders from last night were still lying on the ground, they may as well be asleep, if it weren't for the fact they, I guess you could say, have a hole in their hearts, eh? Anypony, really, oh come on that was funny, so they now have holes in their chest that went through their hearts, courtesy of yours truly, so as we walked past the raider that had the shotgun, I saw the shotgun lying there just waiting to be picked up. As I picked it up with my magic, a light blue aura enveloped the gun, just then I realized that Moonstone didn't have a weapon, but of course, unicorns can cast a magic bullet, but I'll give to her just in case if she can't.

" Hey Moonstone, do you know how to use a shotgun?" I questioned, it would suck for me if I had to explain how to use a gun to her, I tried to teach a foal how to use a gun before, and she almost took my head off.

" Oh, y-yes I've learned how to work one, but I've never actually used one." the medic pony stated, thank you for knowing how to use a gun, it makes me happy to know that she knows how to use a gun to the point where I could just kiss her, but I won't.

" Great, here you go, don't be shy take it." I urged her to take it, at first she was hesitant but I reminded her that she can trust us and we trust her with the gun, hopefully she won't shoot me with it.

It was about a good 30 minute walk, but we made it to the where the dead pegasus was, wait a minute, Moonstone is a pegasus, so how would she react to a fellow dead pegasus?

" Finally, hey check it out the gear is still here!" I shouted as I ran to the corpse, eager to find some good loot.

" Keep it down Deadshot, do you want whatever creature that did this to come back!?" my oh so wonderful sister whispered, I kind of wish she'd stop trying to be my mom sometimes, but this time she's right, I gotta keep it quiet.

" Wow, look at these assault rifles, and this helmet could fetch a good price, but look at this battle saddle." I excitedly whispered, this is a good find, it's not everyday you find two assault rifles in this condition, it's just about brand new, kinda, Moonstone walked up to the body to inspect it too.

" Hey look at this!" Moonstone called quietly, she was holding something with her hoofs, some kind of large rectangle box with a trigger.

" What is it?" I asked confused with what it even was, I'm not that good with technology.

" It's a, um…let me take a look." Moonstone said as she looked very closely at some very small letters and numbers.

" It's an AER-14 laser rifle!" she shouted in glee, an AER-14, what in the name of celestia is that, so decided that I'd ask the most obvious question on my mind.

" What's an AER-14?" I questioned, I was kinda feeling a little stupid for asking, I feel like I should know what it is, but I don't.

" Well, it's only a prototype, but Deadshot this weapon is priceless, you don't know how excited I am, only a hundred of these were ever made before…well…you know, the balefire bombs fell, too bad there's no ammo for it, but maybe I can modify it to use save more energy, with some work, and maybe...!" she rambled on and on about this and that to the point my ears flopped down to cover themselves and so did Jumper as she covered her ears with her paws, until all of a sudden all four of us heard a blood curdling screech. From behind some rubble a red light started to glow brighter and brighter, and then a ghoul appeared, but this was no ordinary ghoul, it's what many call the glowing ones, by the looks of it this ghoul used to be a raider, this one was wearing hoof claws, I quickly took out my rifle and took a shot, but only grazed the left cheek of it's face, I was surprised that the ghoul was already getting close, but before I could take another shot the ghoul was right on me pushing me to the ground, the ghouls face was peeling off, it's maw was hanging only by a few clumps of muscle, and most gross of all it's left eye was dangling out of it's eye socket, truly a face even a mother couldn't love, Razor Edge tried to get the ghoul off me, but the ghoul kicked her in the gut with it's hind legs, Razor Edge few into a wall knocking her unconscious, Jumper also threw herself at the ghoul, but ended up the same as my sister, I on the other hoof, am being clawed at by a radioactive ghoul, but then the ghoul swiped a hoof at my face for a killing blow, I tried moving out of the way, but I was too slow at dodging, resulting in the ghoul cutting my left eye, great now my left eye is gonna be my blind spot, Moonstone on other hoof was struggling to put the shotgun shells in, it's probably not easy to shove a bullet into a shotgun with you hooves, she was starting to line up the shot, but she hesitated to shoot.

" What are you doing!? Shoot the gun!?" I screamed fighting off the ghoul, wow I'm starting to feel sick, might be the radiation, or from the face of this ghoul.

" I-I can't I might h-" she tried reply , but not before I cut her off, since I knew what she was about to say.

" If you were about to say that you'd hit me, that's ok, because you know what, I've been shot before, and I'd prefer to either get shot or die then become a ghoul right about now!" I babbled, and with that she took aim and hesitated, but steadied her aim again, got a little closer and shot the ghouls' head, which is now flying off to celestia knows where, spewing irradiated blood all over me. A few minutes after that hell of an encounter, I drank some radaway Moonstone found on the dead pegasus, but Moonstone said I still had a large trace of radiation in me, but not long after my sister finally regained consciousness, a little bit alert at first, but all in all she's fine, Moonstone scavenged a little more through the dead pegasus' bags and found three healing potions, awesome we'll need 'em, and a few spark cartridges. And so we finally left that hellhole with two new family members/friends, and I've gotten for the first time, three gnarly scars on my left eye now, although it sucks because the downside is that I'm probably blind in my left eye now.

*2 hours of walking later*

" Hey did anypony hear that?" I asked as I was pretty sure I heard somepony just said something about 2 hours of something.

" Hear what?" my shy pegasus friend questioned, she must think I'm going crazy.

" Oh don't mind her Moonstone, she'll also hear things every now and then." my blue haired twin advised, hey I'm not crazy I swear I heard something, but anyway, as we approached a building we all decided to check the place out for possible loot, my sister and I have gone past this building before, but every time we were near this place we were being chased by raiders, but once we entered, I stared at a sign on the wall when we entered, why does it have my attention, you may wonder? It's because it said "Welcome to stable-tec labs" with branch 12 under it, must be good stuff here if it's from stable-tec, as we wandered around the building, I turned a corner of the building and stared down a hallway, when I walked down the hallway I heard some movements inside a room when I entered the room there was nothing inside, as I exited the room a ghoul jumped at me from behind the door, I was pinned to the ground with a ghoul trying to bite at my stomach, but luckily my sister was close enough to hear the ruckus, so when she got to the room where I was pinned down she immediately dispatched the ghoul's head with a swift slash of her sword.

"You know what, I don't get why ghouls always like to attack you." Razor Edge said as she recalled our last ghoul encounter not to long ago.

"Oh you're just jealous that even ghouls love me more than you." I teased, Razor Edge just scrunches her face and looked at me while blushing. I was being checked up on by Moonstone, as my sister took a look at a special room, there was only one room that caught our eyes, since there was only two floors, and the fact that there was a locked steel door to some kind of basement, we all thought there might have been some good loot or anything behind the door, so I put down my bag, pulled out some lockpicks, and started working my magic. It was about a good ten minutes, but I finally got it unlocked, when we entered the room, we learned that inside the room was dark, really dark, so to find the light switch I casted a light spell, only find the switch right next to me, never expected it to be there, so as I flipped the switch, all of us excluding Jumper were horrified by the grim image before us, hundreds of bones littered the ground, at first we were shocked, but then realized we need to check the whole room, if these pony were here before the bombs fell then it's possible that one of them could become a ghoul, I was searching near the back of the room when all of a sudden, I was attacked by the dead.

" GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!!!" I screamed while repeatedly saying gross, there were two skeletons lying on top of me, but in my defense they were heavy, Moonstone gently moved the skeletons off of me smiling, hey if skeletons came to life a started to attack me I'd be scared shitless, the dead should stay that way, so after we confirmed that there were no ghouls, we all walked up to one of the steel tables in the room that actually had something that looked useful, there were three objects sitting on the table, where a sign also sat saying, " V.1 armored frame modifiable self removable pip-buck model 3600" wow that's long, and there were some tapes lying around, and I so happen to put into a random tape into the tape player, we waited and then a male voice came through.

" Day six after bombs fell, we're still working on pip-buck model 3600, but it's only 46% finished, we still need a little more time." the voice spoke weakly, then I picked another random tape to put in the tape player next, I think this is the last tape, but this time it, same male voice kinda came through, but he sounded really sick.

" Day 38 after bombs fell, finally *cough* I've finished it, hehe, who'd have thought that the missing component was to just add magic, but not just any magic, no, it needed the magic of friendship, too bad *cough*, but either way I've completed it, if only my friends were around to see this, but if anypony finds *cough getting worse* this place, I want you to know*heavy *that my final wish is for somepony to * violent cough* take my creation and use it well, haha, with me completing it I can finally rest easy, and maybe just maybe, see my friends again." the tape ended there, I turned around to see my sister and and Moonstone in tears, so I asked them what was wrong, oblivious to myself crying, I didn't even know I was crying because my left eye isn't tearing up, and then both of them answered simultaneously after gulping down some sadness.

" It's just *sniff* so sad!" they said crying their hearts out, for the love of Luna they're like foals crying for their mom.

" Anyway, if you want to make it a happier end, then take a pip-buck, it was his final wish after all." I suggested, and after putting the pip-buck on, it started calibrating and a small white me appeared and wow was my health low, but I was upset at the fact that it said I had minor radiation poisoning, and that I've mutated somewhere, it just says mutation detected, at this point I was freaking out, what could have mutated!?

" How do I look?" I asked my sister panicking, but she looks confused at my answer.

" What do you mean, I mean you look beautiful as always." she questioned, I must sound stupid right about now.

" My pip-buck says I've mutated something, but I don't know what!" I squealed, now I'm just crying at what could've changed, did I grew an extra organ or did I have a split tongue or even another*AHHHH*.

"No, stop thinking stop thinking stop thinking!" I mused, looking at me panicking, Razor Edge and Moonstone got me out of the building, it was about 4 more hours before we'd make it to tenpony tower, and I know this isn't a good idea, but I was too stressed about this mutation thing that I fainted, and I was out cold making me an easy target for slavers, or even worse raiders, my soul quivered at the thoughts.

* * * *

I awoke to a strange white place, but then I remembered where I was.

" Oh, not this place again." I whined, but then the female voice from my last dream spoke again.

" Well look at you, all roughed up, wasn't an easy fight was it, must have been tough for you, although it could have been worse you know, at least you weren't slowly BURNED TO DEATH!" she raged, there weren't any more voices after that, as if waiting for me to give an answer, so I did.

" Look I know I didn't help you, but I couldn't have help you, I was too small to ok, if only my magic was stronger back then, then maybe I could've, so please stop haunting me." I responded sobbing, falling to the ground sitting on my rump, something my mother always told me never to do, all because it would make her sad, but then all of a sudden out of the blue two hooves wrapped around me as I sat on my rump, so I just sat there feeling the warmth of the embrace, then a beautiful calm voice spoke out.

" The creature that is haunting you is only your imagination, this is your mind, there's no need to be scared here, so just close your eye and relax." the glowing white mare assured, as if responding to my cry, so I closed my eye, relaxed, then opened my eye again giving a quiet *sniff* and wiping away my tears." After all, mothers knows best." the glowing mare added, as she turned into a bluish white coated mare, with dark and light blue mane and tail with a stripe of red." I did die, but it was never your fault, you were still very young back then, but even so you tried your best to help me." my ghost mom reminded, as a memory of a little white filly trying to push some of the remains of a house off of a mare flashed in" But for now, live your life to the fullest Deadshot." she smiled, as the world around me began glowing brighter until I too was engulfed by the light, was I dead?

* * * *

* 3 hours and 37 minutes later*

As the dream faded and I was awake, I was shocked by my dream and the very first thing I said was.

" MOM!?" I shouted, but quickly fell back asleep, but Razor Edge woke my back up after 3 minutes of sleeping when she realized I fell asleep again.

* 6 minutes later*

"Who's there?" I mumbled, kinda sluggishly as I opened my eye, I fell asleep again so my sister was kinda mad at me.

" Did you hear something again? " Moonstone asked, awe how nice of somepony to care finally care about poor me.

" N-never mind I'm just hearing things, again." I answered quickly knowing I'm just hearing things, or I'm going crazy, then I looked around.

"W-where are we?" I asked, as I starting to panic since my vision right now is still blurry, but then a familiar smooth and young male voice spoke out to me, which gave me a chill and an idea of where I am.

" No need to worry lovely, you're back in tenpony tower." a stallion's' voice answered, and for some reason gave me a chill that shot through my whole body, as my vision was clearing up, I looked up and realized that an electric blue coated unicorn stallion, with a blue and light yellow mane and tail stood before me, I remembered that my mom said something about his ancestor being a musician before the bombs fell, I think her name was Lyra heartstrings, anyway, the stallion had a scalpel with a stitching needle angled above the scalpel, with the thread wrapping around the scalpel for a cutie mark, but had one thing to say about him.

" The wasteland's most devious, bottom feeding scumbag alive, *dramatic close up on Deadshot's face* Spectre." I hissed as I looked him in the eyes.

" I-I'm not devious, or a scumbag." the electric blue unicorn whimpered.

" Give it to me straight doc, am I gonna die?" I dramatically asked sarcastically, 'cause a lot of other ponies who normally comes to him would end up dead anyway.

" What, no, why would you think that?" he asked confused, jeez, he never changes, but I gave him a reason anyway.

" Well how many patients actually left this clinic alive." I replied smirking, if I weren't a regular patient I may have just ran out of the front door after hearing the death count.

" Many, but in truth not all, but they were at death's door already, so just relax and I'll quickly examine you." he said calmly, then start walking slowly towards me, but before he got anywhere close to me, I immediately crossed my hind hooves to cover my nethers, because I know for a fact and through experience that this doctor was also a huge pervert, after looking around my body for mutations he gave me an answer.

" Well I don't see any deformities on your body, but~ just to be sure." he put a hoof near my rump, and before I could react he pushed me over and immediately moved me back, and with that I slapped him hard across the face while my face was about completely red from embarrassment.

" PERVERT!" I screamed. This is the number one reason why I hated being in his clinic, but sadly he's the best doctor around, Spectre was rubbing his now swollen right cheek as he responded to my action.

" Yep, I deserved that, but luckily no mutation, but I did noticed that you bandaged your left eye, why?" he questioned, really, the dried blood stain doesn't mean anything?

" Well I got it from a hoof claw wearing radioactive ghoul." I answered, I was about to puke at the thought of that ghoul, all that glowing flesh peeling off, that eye ball dangling out of its' socket, it's maw hanging down wide open, just makes me shudder in disgust.

" Well the mutation might be your eye, here let me unwrap that." he volunteered, as he was unwrapping the bandage he asked me if I'd liked to go to dinner with him tonight, and sadly I agreed to it, but I thought that my sister, and especially Moonstone needed some rest, as he finished he asked if I could open my eye for him, so I did.

" Amazing, well there you have it I think the mutation is you eye." he stated, seriously, my eye was probably clawed out.

"Har har, very funny, my eye was clawed at, how could it be muta-" I mocked, but didn't finish what I was about to say as I zoned out. There standing behind Spectre, a stallion was showering, and his-" LUNA'S HOLY OVARIES, I DO NOT NEED TO SEE THAT!" I shouted, I must have been really red because my entire body was heating up, and Spectre was laughing his head off like a maniac, and he looked confused at the same time.

" What are you talking about Deadshot?" Spectre chuckled as he pulled me close to him.

" What?! you don't see the stallion taking a shower?!" I cried as I was covering my face. How does he not see that!?

" What stallion? there's no shower except the one next door, and tha-" he cut himself off, oh no, he's thinking of something I wouldn't like to do.

" Can you look at the stallion again, but this time cover your left." he requested, I was unsure at first, why would I do that. But I covered my left eye and looked in the same direction of the showering stallion, when I uncovered my right eye and looked I expected a showering pony, but all I could see was a wall.

" Wait what? it's just a wall?" I said, ok now I'm confused, this time I opened both eyes, and the wall was the only thing there.

" Why can't I see through the wall now?" I questioned, waiting for an answer from Spectre.

" Well, to be honest I don't really know, this is a new kind of mutation, tell me, what colour was the ghoul?" he asked, why does he need to know? Whatever, I told him that it was a red glowing ghoul.

" Fascinating a red glowing one, I've seen blue and green ones, but never a red one, but somepony else has, but he split town years back, you may not believe me, but it was your dad, he'd tell stories of his adventures to me all the time, and one of them had a red glowing ghoul in it, he said that if you can survive an attack from one you'd get powers from it." he explained, well this got even more confusing, my dad left town after my mom died, but he never told anypony where he went.

* * * *

*Later that night on Deadshots' date*

" It's not a date!" I shouted to the weird voice, seriously where is it coming from.

" If it's not a date, then why are you in a dress, and wearing some make up?" Spectre asked, well how rude of him, he should appreciate the fact that I'm even wearing this.

" Well, I have to look nice, and not look like a stereotypical scavenger, plus, both my sister and Moonstone, and even Jumper kept bugging me about it until I said yes to going with you in this stupid dress." I explained while trying my hardest not to trip on my dress.

" Well I'm in this suit, so I guess we're both in the same boat, but where we're going to is the best and most fancy restaurant in tenpony tower." he added trying to sound all fancy like.

" You're liking this aren't you?" I questioned, as we were now standing in front of the restaurant, Phoenix paradise, what a name.

"I'm not gonna answer that." the electric blue stallion answered, and received a death glare from me as we were led to our table, Spectre looked at me with a 'you needed to relax' look on his face. A few minutes later a waiter came to our table and asked what we would like to drink, they had all kinds of alcohol here, so Spectre asked for the Dashing pegasus Vodka, while my answer was this.

" Raspberry sunrise, with ice, Oh and a little umbrella too." I ordered, the waiter simply nodded his head and left to get our drinks prepared.

" So, I've been thinking." said my friend sitting opposite of me, I didn't like it when he says that.

" I'm not going to kiss you." I quickly interjected, because I would never, he's been my friend since we were foals, so I'd probably never think of him as a suitable lover, maybe, but he ended up saying something else anyway.

" You're so cold Deadshot, but that's not what I was going to say, I was going to tell you that maybe you can see through objects only if you're thinking of looking through a wall, and I was also going to say that your mane looks beautiful too." he added, the last one caught me off guard making me blush.

" Well I figured that out already, but I found out that I can't see through ponies, clothing and my own mane, so after testing it for a while when I looked into a mirror I was freaking out, because my whole eye turned black and that my pupil is just nothing but a white dot with no iris." I responded, but whispered the last part to Spectre as the waiter came back with our drinks.

* * * *

*Later after the date*

I was now in the room of my worst nightmare, Spectre's room. The place looked nice, but I knew there had to be some hidden secret here. Spectre walked up behind me putting a hoof on my neck running it down my back which made me jump away.

" Care to join me?" he asked putting on a seductive look on his face, which would've worked on any other mare but me.

" Thanks, but no, I'll just sleep on the couch." I responded not wanting to share a bed with this creep.

" Well no worries, your sister said she'd cut me up if I did anything to you, and I don't think she's kidding about it." he assured as a sweat dropped thinking about what my sister probably said to him.

* An hour before date *

" If you dare do anything to my sister Spectre, I'll personally cut your dick off and shove it down your throat while I'm cutting you to pieces, you got that!" Razor Edge threatened, while Spectre was shaking in fear.

"Y-yes, I've got it." Spectre answered still quivering before Razor Edge.

"Yes who?" Razor Edge asked.

"Y-yes ma'am!" he quavered.

* Present time *

I was happy my sister got to talk to him, now I can sleep in peace, as I was lying in the bed sleeping Spectre said something to me.

" You know, I kinda miss the old you from when we were foals." said the stallion laying next to me.

" You know full well that's impossible." I replied, remembering that day when everything changed.

" Well you won't know unless you try, anyways goodnight Deadshot." he added before he went back to sleeping, I wish we could go back to those times but you can't bring back the dead.

* * * *

I awoke to the white plain again, and sitting on the ground was my mom, I walked up to her to see what she was doing.

" You know I've been with you and your sister ever since I died right?" my mother asked, but I kind of already knew.

" Yeah I kind of knew, I always had a feeling I've was being watched every now and then." I answered. But then a thought popped into my mind." Why can't my sister see you in her dreams like I do?" I questioned, because Razor Edge never had a dream like this before.

" It's possible that you're more spiritually sensitive than your sister." my mother responded as she smiled at me." Why don't I show you a few of your most happiest memories?" the ghost mom suggested, I don't know how she accessed my memory but I just simply nodded wanting to see what my own happiest moments were. The first memory was my fourth birthday when I got to go scavenging with my dad for the first time, with my very first pistol, it was a small but useful weapon.

My second memory was the day after my fifth birthday, the day of the massacre, when my dad stayed with me throughout the whole night keeping me company, since I was really broken ever since my mother died, but he kept me happy, although he caused the second most saddest moment in my life.

The third and final memory was of me and my sister raiding with a large group of ponies in a raider's base near Ponyville, now that was really fun, I think my kill count was at least ten raiders that day. My mom didn't like that last one much but she didn't seem to mind after seeing me happy. As the dream began to glow brighter and brighter I knew that the dream was ending, so till everything faded from white to black, I hugged my mother before I left.

* * * *

*The next morning*

I woke up checking every part of me trying to make sure Spectre didn't try anything while I slept, but I was happy to find that he didn't do anything to me, I looked around only to find him still asleep, he kinda looks cute sleeping, no get your mind out of the gutter Deadshot. It was 9:00 am after I showered and brushed my mane, and I found Spectre still sleeping, so I try calling his name to wake him up but he kept saying that he's not home, so I tried poking him to wake him up but he said 5 more minutes, after many failed attempts at waking him up, I did what any mare would do in this situation.

*SMACK*.

" Ow! Ok ok, I'm up! Deadshot, why in the name of Celestia did you slap me for, I didn't do anything I swear!" he complained rubbing the left cheek of his face as it starting to turn red.

" Well it's because you looked impossibly too cute." I answered with a smirk.

" Well that's a bit dramatic." he mumbled, well it could have been more dramatic if I shot him with a shock spell.

" Anyway, I'm gonna visit my mom's grave, care to join me?" I offered, Spectre as always happily agrees. After his rather quick shower he followed me down to the cemetery, my mom was originally buried in Ponyville. My sister and I used to live there when we were around 8 years old, so when Spectre's dad moved to Tenpony tower we had to move with him, after we moved in we reburied my mom in this cemetery. I placed down a bouquet of flowers - mostly tulips - on the side of my mother's headstone as I had a moment of silence.

*Inscribed on the headstone says R.I.P Silverfang age 32.*

The silence was broken by very loud hoofsteps running up behind me, I thought it was probably somepony who wanted to rob me or something.

" Look, if you're gonna rob me then you'd better bring an assault rifle." I stated, I've had ponies try and rob me before so I knew how to deal with robber. As I turned around I faced a very familiar earth pony filly, who was now lying on the ground breathing heavily. " What are you doing here for, Eclipse?" I asked, she didn't have any dead family members, so I was curious as to why she was even here

" Deadshot *huff huff* Deadshot, my *wheez* dad said he found out, where your dad might be." she wheezed before she passed out. I picked her up with my magic and laid her across my back. My dad huh, what a coincidence, I needed answers from him and now he shows himself.

*end of chapter one*

Chapter Two: Bounty Hunter.

Chapter Two: Bounty Hunter

" You either try or die trying."

It was currently 10:50 am and all seems quiet in the wasteland but if you focus you can hear gunshots from outside of the raiders attacking a settlement somewhere, the land seems as if poisoned with all the bloodshed, but even so, in lands like these a very small field of Daisies bloomed on a distant mountaintop, guarded by Ghouls of all sorts. In Tenpony tower loud hoofsteps were heard from a white coated mare, as she was rushing down a well lit stairway to where a train station was located just below Tenpony tower.

* * * *

I finally reached the station and found the stallion that I was looking for, he was exiting the train unloading some luggage and cargo. So I politely waited for him to finish unloading, it made me seem lady like just sitting there waiting, in fact a few stallions walked up to me and asked if I'd go on a date with them, of course I denied them which encouraged more to ask me.

It was 20 minutes of waiting and being ask to go out on a date, but the stallion I was waiting for finished unloading cargo, which he is now drinking equestrian wasteland style coffee. I never liked coffee that much though, I walk up to his table to talk to him, he didn't seem to notice me so I had to call him by name.

" Hey Sunstone, I heard from Eclipse that you know where my father is." I greeted the orange coated unicorn stallion, Sunstone also had a light yellow mane and tail, his cutie mark is that of a burning gem, Sunstone works down here in the train station quite often but he owns a store in the market area, since he gets paid in gems he uses them in making talismans.

" Ah yes, I did tell Eclipse to get you, but uh, where is she?" Sunstone asked in a strange accent, I never exactly figured out what his accent was though.

" Don't worry I brought her back to your living quarters." I assured him, he gave me a 'thank you' look, but I still needed my answer. " If you know anything about my father then please, tell me." I added calmly.

" Ah yes, since I work here I tend to hear gossip every now and then, when I was unloading some of the cargo I overheard some ponies talking about your father, I do not know the full details, but perhaps you can ask her for yourself." he finished pointing towards a pale peach coated earth pony mare with a curly pale yellow mane and tail. So I thanked Sunstone for his time and approached the mare.

" Excuse me but I heard you may know where my father might be." I asked the mare, who is now giving my a weird look.

" Oh my, have lost your daddy sugar?" she asked in return. What a weird accent, but I'm getting off track.

" In a way, kinda, he left me and my sister when we were only five years old." I answered, kinda feeling like I forgot to mention something.

" My my, so you have daddy issues then sugar?" she asked changing her last question. Oh thank Celestia that I didn't have a weapon on me right now, because if I did I'd probably have shot her head off.

" UGH! No, I was told you may have see my dad, you know, black coated pony with a silver mane and tail!" I snarled, she was not making my day any better.

" My my, you don't need to shout, but yes Ah've seen him, in fact he came to me about a few days ago at New Ponyville to tell ya to go to the Megamart trading hub in Hoofington." she replied, Hoofington, why Hoofington of all places, that place is basically a death trap.

" *Sigh* Well that's something I guess, thanks uh, I'm sorry I never got your name, my name is Deadshot." I asked, mom would always say that it's rude to ask for somepony else's name without introducing your own name first.

" Nice to meet ya Deadshot, mah name is Vanilla Coffee, but ya can just call me Coffee, sugar." she replied, her name is actually nice, unlike mine, my name sounds like I'm gonna shoot somepony. I said my goodbyes to Coffee and Sunstone as well as all the other stallions there that asked me on a date and the ponies that I knew before heading back up to the lobby of Tenpony tower.

When I was back in the lobby I saw Spectre fast asleep on a bench with two security ponies poking him trying to get him to move, so as I came close to the bench I told the security ponies that I could takeover, the security ponies stepped aside to let me do my magic.

" Wake up sleepy head." I whispered.

" *snort* uh, five more minutes mom." he mumbled, so I did the most obvious.

*SMACK*

" OW! WHY DO YOU KEEP SLAPPING ME!?" he cried, which got a smile from me.

" You know the security ponies don't like it when you fall asleep on public benches right?" I asked.

" What no, I wasn't sleeping, I was napping." he replied getting off the bench. " So, did you get any info on your dad?" he asked.

" Yeah, apparently he wants me to go to Megamart in Hoofington." I answered sourly.

" HOOFINGTON!?" Spectre shouted receiving stares from ponies around us making him embarrassed. " I mean, why Hoofington?" he whispered.

" Don't know but I guess we should go check it out." I replied.

*20 minutes later*

" So why did you bring me along, you could've just sold the stuff we got with Spectre or Moonstone you know." Razor Edge complained.

" Well maybe she has a good reason to bring you along." a white pegasus mare suggested.

" Well we need to sell some stuff and then we need to catch a train, that's why." I answered.

" Why do we need to catch a train ride for?" Razor Edge asked.

" We need to get to Hoofington." I replied.

" Why, that place is like a death trap." Moonstone said with some fear in her voice.

" Well it's a good thing that I got you to modify our pipbucks with enervation sensors, my sister and I have been there before and there was enervation fields almost everywhere, luckily nowadays the enervation has died down so there's no worries." I assured her as we approached a weapons and equipments store, Thunder Gun's weapons and equipment emporium, what sucks is that the weapon store is outside of Tenpony tower, but at least we can now carry our weapons and ammo with us into the tower now, a few years back we weren't allowed to, although security is really tight now that everypony can carry a weapon around with them. As we walked into the store a yellow earth pony stallion with a yellow and light blue mane and tail called out to me.

" Hey hey, Deadshot!" the yellow earth pony called in an odd accent. " How's my favourite customer and supplier doing?" he asked.

" I'm fine but how about you Thunder Gun?" I happily greeted back.

" Oh I'm just fine, but what have you got for me this time?" the yellow earth pony asked.

" Well since I don't see any assault rifles hanging around, so I guess I can sell you mine." I replied.

" Ah fine rifles indeed, and you have two of them, wonderful." Thunder Gun said happily examining the assault rifles.

" I also have this helmet." I said adding the helmet.

" Well with the condition the rifles are in plus the helmet." he replied suspending the moment by taking a second look at the stuff I had just put in front of him. " 245 caps." he said. That seems a bit too low for my taste.

" 280 caps." I countered.

" 250 caps." he objected.

" 270 caps." I objected his objection.

" 260 caps!" he objected my objection to his objection.

" 275 caps no higher!" I suggested.

" 265 caps no less!" he suggested, alright then I guess I could live with that.

" 265 caps it is." I replied happily, not as much as I wanted but it's still a good price.

" *Sigh* Looks like you got me again Deadshot." he sighed as he pulled out a bag of caps. As Moonstone looked around for ammunition and protective gear I was counting my caps, apparently I had over 6,000 caps, that's good because a one way train ride to Hoofington is 500 caps each and it's double that for a two way trip, but I guess we'll just take a one way trip to Hoofington and scavenge the place a bit, that means I have to pay 1,500 caps for us in total to ride the train.

After we got what we needed we headed back into Tenpony tower to go down into the train station. As we made our way down to the train station, I saw Spectre sitting on a bench waiting for something or somepony. So we paid for our tickets and stood in the waiting area as I talked with Spectre.

" So, who're you waiting for Spectre?" I asked my old friend.

" Well I was waiting for you to say goodbye, you know since you'll be gone for awhile and all that." he answered.

" You know you didn't have to, we were just going to drop by Hoofington and-" I was cut off when Spectre suddenly pulled me into a tight embrace, I didn't really know how to respond to this, but the look that I was receiving from both my sister and the white pegasus said was ' hug him back Deadshot', so I returned his hug as Moonstone looked like she was about to cry, then Spectre suddenly kissed me in the lip which caught me off guard, wide eyed I was panicking in thought of what to do, then I looked over to Razor Edge for help but her face seemed to say ' DO IT, MAKE HIS DREAM COME TRUE, JUST DO IT!', so I closed my eyes and returned the kiss while blushing, but I faintly heard Moonstone crying tears of happiness which kinda made me smile inside. The kiss lasted for probably 16 minutes but as the train arrived our lips had to sadly part ways.

After the encounter with Spectre which resulted in Moonstone crying, we hopped on board the 'Viking' which was a pullmare, these trains were basically luxury trains. But as the train left the station I saw Spectre waving at me from the waiting area so I returned the wave slightly blushing, I've got to admit he's a surprisingly good kisser. As the train was leaving Manehattan I took a nice long look at my home before it was out of view.

The trip would take a few stops before we make it to the Hoof, the first stop would be New Canterlot, next would be Ponyville, New Pegasus is after that, and then finally the Hoof. But halfway to Hoofington the train will be given a maintenance check and repairs so that'll take a full day.

It was about 6:00 pm and the train was starting to serve dinner, we sat in a booth third closest to the door that lead to the back passenger car, the passenger car had seats that became bunk beds. As we finished ordering and the waiter left with our orders I saw a very shady group enter the dining compartment, there were two unicorns and two earth ponies in cloaks, but the final pony was a rather large unicorn. It kinda bothers me with the fact that the group were looking directly at us, but then the large pony started walking towards us with the others following closely behind him, now that I've gotten a good look all the ponies in the group were stallions so I kinda have a good idea of what was about to go down.

" Hey there beautifuls, I couldn't help but notice that the three of you ladies look lonely, so why don't the three of you join me and my pals here in the caboose?" the cloaked stallion asked in a deep raspy voice. I was able to get a good look at his coat colour, it was a bluish grey and his mane was a deep ultramarine colour, but this guy was an idiot if he thinks we'd join him.

" No thank you, we don't do pigs." I taunted.

" If you want to do this the hard way then we'll do it the hard way." he whispered threateningly, I saw him reaching for something in his cloak but I didn't see what it was until he pulled it out, Moonstone's eyes widened in horror as Razor Edge's eyes narrowed in anger when he pulled out a shotgun and pointed it at my head. " Now, unless you want your friend's head turning into paint on that window you'd better join us." he demanded, he looked at me as if he had won, but I thought to myself that if he saw my left eye under my mane he might freak out enough for me to grab his shotgun. So as I was about to flash my eye at him a somepony shouted at him at the same time as somepony, then out of the blue a familiar dark blue-grey pegasus stallion with an azure-ish white and celestial blue mane comb over to one side of his face with his back mane combed upwards flew straight into the group of ponies kicking the leader square in the face with his hind legs making him collapse to the ground. As the stallion stood on top of the group's fallen leader he said something rather surprising, especially to me.

" How low can you ponies get?" he said smirking. " Didn't your mother teach you to not threatened innocent mares like that?" he mocked, I kinda have to disagree with him on that, I don't think I count as innocent, as the group of ponies looked down to their fallen leader they started to pull out their weapons but as they attempted to pull their weapons out a loud voice shouted at them.

" KEEP YOUR GUNS HOLSTERED!" the voice boomed, I looked over to where the voice came from and there he was, standing in the doorway stood a charcoal coated unicorn stallion with an asparagus and ash grey mane trimmed in a buzzcut. " There will be no gunfire or fighting on this train!" he shouted. As the leader of the group got up the military looking stallion shouted at him. " Dark Saddle, if you and your gang pull a stunt like this again I swear I'll throw you and your gang off the train while it's still moving!" he warned. As Dark Saddle got up his gang slowly walked him off to the door that lead to the front passenger car, the stallion looked over to the pegasus next and just gave him a smile.

" I'm very sorry about that, but please enjoy your stay here madam ." he said bowing his head before leaving, well I can certainly say that he has more manners than Spectre that's for sure. The silence was later broken by the pegasus stallion.

" Hey, um, do you mind if I sat here?" the pegasus asked.

" No not at all." I said scooting over and motioned at my sister. " Move your fat flank over Razor Edge." I whispered to her jokingly.

" You have a way fatter flank than mine." Razor Edge whispered sourly.

" Thanks a lot ladies." the stallion thanked. " Oh my name is Astral bolt, what're yours?" Astral bolt added.

" Well my name is Deadshot." I answered, then Moonstone answered next.

" My name is Moonstone Stitches, but you can just call me Moonstone." Moonstone replied.

" I'm Razor Edge." my sister said while pouting.

" Wow, has anypony ever told you two that you both have name that're like raider names?" the pegasus stallion added, I noticed that my sister really got offended by, so I had to change the subject.

" Aaaanyway, what do you want?" I asked.

" Want what?" he questioned

" Do you want caps for saving us or something?" I asked again.

" No not really, I just saw three mare in trouble, so I jumped in to help." he answered.

" Oh really, also why is it that I recognize you?" I asked.

" I think you saw me at Manehattan's train station, but I definitely saw you there." he answered. So that's why I thought he looked familiar. " Also I was too scared to talk to you specifically since I saw that unicorn stallion kissing you." he added. Well now I'm embarrassed, so I did just kissed my friend that I knew my whole life for 16 minutes in public for everypony to see. But I just realized Astral Bolt said he was scared of Spectre, and it seems that Razor Edge was about to him why.

" Why were you afraid of the stallion that was with Deadshot for?" Razor Edge questioned.

" Weeell, I was going to ask Deadshot out on a date for when we got on the train, but then I saw that she was with another stallion." the dark blue grey pegasus sulked.

" Do you have any idea of how many times Deadshot has shot down a stallion's request to go on a date?" Razor Edge asked. Astral Bolt just shook his head and looked at me, but so did Moonstone and Razor Edge, why did they look at me for? " Hey sis what's your dates denied count?" my sister ask, kinda of rude to ask a mare that question, but I told them anyway

" I think it's at 344 denied request as of late." I answered receiving blank stares from all three ponies. As the waiter came back with our meal they were still shocked at my answer, what? a mare should never shoot down a dating request?

" Hey look, food!" I tempted trying to get their minds off of my long record of denying a date request. They shook themselves out of their trance as they looked at their food, not too long ago Astral Bolt ordered some mashed potatoes and baby corn, Razor Edge ordered what was buttered mashed potatoes with a side of corn and peas, Moonstone just ordered fish and chips, the fish is salna which is a mutant offspring of a giant salmon and tuna. I for one ordered tacos, I love tacos.

Later after the dinner we headed off to bed, and for some reason Astral Bolt's request to be moved into our room was approved. My sister and I weren't very welcoming of a stallion that we just met sleep in the same room with us, but somehow Moonstone was able to talk the two of us into allow it. So before I fell asleep I carefully kept my eye on Astral Bolt before I started to drift off into the realm of sleep.

* * * *

I awoke in the same dream again, everywhere around me was white except me and my mom, who is not here, I looked around for her but couldn't find her. But out of nowhere a large black mass appeared out of the ground sprouting a unicorn's horn, it's eyes were blacker than black, it's pupil were white, like mine.

" Why hello there puny one." the black mass greeted in a cold spine chilling female voice. " Have you come here seeking for the secrets of my magic?" the black mass added.

" Who are you!?" I demanded. " What are you doing here!?" I added.

" Why, I'm you, I'm here to teach you how to use your power." the mass answered as it slowly transformed into a black version of me but she was much taller than me.

" Why would I trust you?" I asked.

" Well let me put it this way, if you die then so do I." the shadowy mare answered. If she's the one that gave me my power then maybe this is my chance to get some answers from her.

" Are there any other ponies out there with the same power that I have?" I questioned.

" Yes and no, there are those that has gained power through those red ghouls, but they do not have the same power as yours, each pony will have their own special power and, guide." she answered, strange I wonder if she knows more about these red ghouls.

" Do you know how one of those red ghouls form, or how a pony gets there power?" I questioned again.

" No I sadly do not know, but how a pony gets their powers are chosen by a force that is beyond me, but we must get you trained." she answered, and with that she asked for my name, well it's kinda rude to ask for somepony's name without telling your own first, but something tells me I shouldn't piss her off.

" Well my name is Deadshot, so what's yours?" I answered, I asked for her name because I don't want to keep thinking of her as the black mass that appeared in my dream.

" I have never thought of a name." the shadowy mare answered, she thought for a good ten minutes before saying something. " I would wish to be called Zilla." she finally answered.

" Well Zilla it's nice to meet you but I would like to know where my mom went." I replied, I really wish I knew where my mom went, it's not like she would leave me note, or would she?

" Your mother is fine, she is up there." Zilla answered pointing up, I thought she meant that my mom kicked the bucket again and flew off to heaven, but when I looked up I saw my mom sitting in what looks like a chair from a stadium.

" Hello sweetheart." my mom greeted me from 12 feet in the air.

" What're you doing up there?" I shouted.

" I'm about to watch the show." she said as a bag of popcorn appeared right next to her. Show? What show, I looked over to Zilla who is now standing behind three shadow ponies, oh wait I just noticed that three shadow ponies were running at me, as two stopped one continued running at me, when it got near me it threw a punch at me as I tried to dodge but got punched in the gut, this continued for about 12 more punches to the gut and 5 upper cuts to the face.

" Use your left eye as well Deadshot." Zilla shouted.

" My eye can only see through walls!" I shouted back.

" There is more to your eye than that Deadshot." Zilla replied back, so I just went with it and used my left eye, and surprisingly I was fighting way better than before, did I ever mention I always just go with the flow, because I always seem to listen to just about everypony.

I was training for what seemed like a good 2 hours, and I learned more about my eye during that time, although there is more I need to know about my power, and now that I know that other ponies could have powers too, I knew I had to be careful. Sadly my dream was about to end and I wasn't able to spend time with my mom at all, but she said that maybe next time I could spend time with her. And as the dream was starting to fade again as I hugged my mother goodbye, but I noticed that Zilla looked very, distant, so I called her to come and join in the hugging, at first she looked shocked and then she smiled and walked over to us, embracing me and my mom in a big hug, she was suddenly crying, it's as if no pony has ever gave her a hug before.

* * * *

As I woke up I looked around for any sign that Astral Bolt did something that he shouldn't, as I walked over to where the dark blue grey pegasus was sleeping, as I got close to the bed he sudden woke up in shock as if he was having a nightmare, luckily he didn't wake up the others, it was about 7:00 in the morning and basically everypony on the train was sleeping.

" Oh is it morning already?" Astral Bolt asked, I was about to answer but he jumped straight out of bed and was about to leave the room. " I'll go and see what they have for breakfast." he said walking out of the room, I was going to tell him that it's only 7:00 in the morning, but I was too tired to. About 5 minutes later Astral Bolt returned looking a little more awake but was kinda sulking.

" Hehe, whoops, too early I guess." the pegasus said still sulking.

" That's ok, I'm gonna go for a walk, mind keeping an eye on these two for me?" I asked.

" Yeah sure, no problem." Astral Bolt replied. I was walking all the way to the back of the train where I could find someplace quiet before everypony wakes up, as I reached the caboose I stepped out the back door to a platform with railings. At times like these I get to see the beautiful night sky when it's mixed with the orange horizon when the sun is rising. Ah what a wonderful view, except the fact that I saw some shadows duck behind some hills heading in the same direction as the train but I didn't really think much of it. As I was on my way back to our room, I heard an explosion, I quickly ran to my room and was relieved to see that it was okay.

" What's going on!?" Razor Edge asked.

" I don't know, but I think it's an attack." I answered grabbing my rifle. I quickly ran towards the explosion and ended up at a train car where the guards were shooting at ponies outside of the train, when I looked at the ponies outside of the train I noticed that they were mercenaries by the looks of their gear and weapons, as I saw a guard get shot in the arm he jumped back in pain leaving his position open, I took the chance to take the spot.

" All civilians must clear the area!" one of the guards shouted.

" let me handle this, I probably have the best aim out of all of you combined so don't try and stop me!" I shouted back as I shot five ponies, leaving seven more to go.

" Holy shit, she just shot five ponies without missing!" one of the other guards shouted, as I shot four more, leaving three left.

" Retreat!" shouted one of the attackers, probably the leader, but before they could get away, I shot one more through the heart, I found out during my dream that one of my abilities were to see a ponies or any living creatures organs, adding that with S.A.T.S from my pipbuck, I'm basically the best shooter in the wastelands, but I've never tried it yet.

" Wow you're amazing, have you ever thought of joining the guards on this train?" one of the guards asked to which I simply told them that guarding is not my thing. But as I was leaving I looked over to the train car that was hit, I focused my hearing, and I thought I heard somepony crying, I couldn't tell but for sure so I used my eye to see through the passenger car when no pony was watching, and there trapped in the passenger car was a mare and her foal, what's worse is that the car was catching on fire, I couldn't just sit there, I've seen this happen before, so when no pony was looking I quickly raced into the burning car.

" Deadshot no!" I heard my sister shout, but it was too late since I was already in, I didn't bother to cover my eye since I needed it to guide me to the trapped ponies. I ran past a least six rooms before I reached hers. As I entered the room I realized why they haven't left the car, the mare was trapped by debris from the explosion and the foal didn't want to leave her mother and breathed in too much smoke, this is almost an exact copy of what happened that day. The mare looked so young, and the foal seemed like she was only 4 years old, as I stepped closer to the mare the heat got more intense, I looked over to the mare wondering if she was still alive, but at the sound of my hoofsteps the mare looked up to me looking relieved.

" Please take my filly out of here*cough*, she's only four, I'm at least 20, I may be young, but she hasn't lived a full*cough* *cough* life yet, so please I beg of you, save her." the mare requested in a weak fading voice.

" No, there's no way I'm leaving you here too." I answered using my body to prep up the debris, luckily I the fire isn't that strong but it still burns like hell, then using my magic I levitated the debris higher as I stepped away to grab the mare's forehooves with my own and I quickly pulled the mare out before the debris fell on her. I felt quite proud of myself to think of that, but the danger isn't over yet, I quickly levitated the mare onto my back and then the filly next and holy Luna shitting moon rocks were they burning. I held them down on my back with my magic so that they wouldn't fall off, as I was making sure that they weren't hitting anything hot, the train cars was starting to get really hot now as I kept bumping into some sharp debris every now and then burning and cutting some of my coat and skin off revealing lots to tissue underneath, the exit was starting to get blocked off by falling debris but it didn't stop me as I burst through the exit with all my strength, bouncing and rolling along the ground as I let go of the mare and her filly from my magic, I probably look like a ghoul by now though.

" WHY IN THE NAME OF CELESTIA WOULD YOU DO THAT DEADSHOT!?" Razor Edge shouted, as my vision began to blur.

" We need to give her healing potions fast!" I heard Moonstone shout, it was kinda echoey.

" Here are some healing potions, we may also have one or two regeneration potions." I heard a stallion's voice answered.

" Quickly she needs them now!" Astral Bolt shouted, as he also sounded echoey.

" Come on stay with us Deadshot you crazy pony!" my sister called. " If anypony can make it through this it's you!" I heard Razor Edge call out to me, but I'm too tired to stay awake. " Keep your eyes open!" I heard Razor Edge cry again, she kept crying out my name as she said something else but I couldn't hear it as my eyes closed to sleep as everything went black.

* * * *

I woke up in shock as to what had happened to me, but when I looked around it was already night, then I noticed Astral Bolt fast asleep in a chair next to where I was lying down, which seems to be my bed in the our room, as I tried to get up my whole body was hurting, but me trying to move seemed to have caught the attention of the dark blue grey pegasus, when he opened one of his eyes his other eye quickly popped open as he was about to say something.

" Hey Razor Edge, Moonstone, Deadshot's awake!" he shouted. I wanted to shush him as I tried to stand up, but I heard hoofsteps running down the hallway when suddenly the door blew open.

" Deadshoooooot!!!!" Razor Edge cried tears of joy as she tightly wrapped all four hooves around me.

" Deadshot you're ok!" I heard Moonstone cry as she walked up to hug me too.

" What's all this about?" I asked confused about what was happening. " I was only out for a few hours." I added.

" No Deadshot, you were out for one day and a few hours." Moonstone corrected as she opened the curtains to the room, it was day outside, then I looked over to my pipbuck sitting on a table that read '5:00 pm'.

" We thought you'd never wake up!" Razor Edge cried as she was literally crying me a river but what I want to know is how was she taking while crying?

" Well I'm awake, but all of this pain in my body is terrible, and my sister crushing me to death isn't helping either." I replied, I swear I only slept for a few hours. " Where are we headed now?" I asked.

" *sniff* We're headed to*sniff*New Ponyville*sniff*." Razor Edge answered sniffling.

" Luckily you didn't miss anything since the train had to repaired, so we were stuck in New Canterlot for about a day." Astral Bolt added, this just popped into my head but why did Astral Bolt take the train for.

" Hey Astral Bolt why were you on this train for?" I asked.

" You just came back to life and and you're ignoring me already, why do you have to be so cold!?" Razor Edge cried, which I ignored.

" Well I got kicked out of my home so I just got as many caps as I could and took this train to Hoofington, maybe there might be some work there for me." Astral Bolt answered.

" Why don't you join us Astral, mind if I call you that?" I offered, Astral replied saying that he was ok with me calling him Astral, and that he'd love to join us, congratulations Deadshot you just gained another pegasus in your group.

When the train had finally stopped at New Ponyville all the passengers were notified that we should come back in two days since they will have to make lots of repairs and refueling, as we stepped off the train we have to take pictures so that we could be recognized when we came back, I was the first one out of the four of us to hand in my picture, but after we all finished we started heading down to the market area, Moonstone and Astral followed behind my sister and I since we know this place like the back of our necks.

After about 20 minutes of walking we finally make it to the market area, as the others went to look at what the stores had, I was elsewhere. I never knew that I had been asleep for so long, is that what being dead is like, I can't remember much but I remember a voice in all that darkness say something to me, but my memory was too hazy. As I looked around I tried to look for a way to make some caps, then I saw a familiar cloudy blue pegasus stallion wearing a brown duster.

" Hey Swift Nimbus is that you?" I called out to the pegasus.

" Well what do we have here, Deadshot it's you!" the pegasus replied. I quickly walk over to him, I noticed there was a silver star pinned to his coat.

" Yep, it's me, how are you doing these days?" I asked the pegasus.

" Oh ah'm fine, although bein' sheriff doesn't make it any better." the pegasus answered.

" Oh a sheriff huh, then do you know of any way for me to make caps fast?" I asked.

" Well I'd go to that billboard there and take a job if ah were you." he answered. As I walked up to the billboard Swift Nimbus accompanied me, I took a look at the billboard and noticed the a lot of them were ponies with bounties on their head.

" What's this about?" I asked the pegasus.

" Well there's been a rise in criminals lately so we have this here." the cloudy blue pegasus answered. I took a look at a few of the bounties, and a lot of them pay well, one in particular caught my eye, a raider gang leader with a dead or alive reward of 2,000 caps and he was near by, as I pulled the paper off the board Swift Nimbus looked at me in shock.

" What's wrong?" I asked the pegasus.

" Well it's just, no pony has ever taken that bounty." he answered.

" So then I'm the first one to pick it?" I asked again.

" No, everypony who has picked that bounty has died to him, then he would brin' the corpse back without the head." Swift Nimbus answered. A dangerous pony huh.

" So has he ever bothered the town?" I asked.

" Yes, he has, captured a couple ponies about a day back." he answered. Welp I have my answers, I later told my sister, Moonstone and Astral that I was going to be gone for awhile, I couldn't really drag them into this, I went down to the market and bought a 9mm pistol with a silencer attached, luckily I had lots of ammo for it. As I was heading off I saw a strange bird flying over head, but I just ignored it.

I was walking for about an hour in the direction of my target, it was starting to get dark so I had to set up camp in a place no pony would see me, I looked around for awhile until I found the perfect building, it had three floors and you could access the roof too, meaning that I can go from building to building without being noticed.

As night started to roll in I was starting to worry, I'm starting to think that it was a bad idea to not bring another pony with me, and sadly I left Jumper back at Tenpony tower with Spectre, so I don't have anypony to watch my back while I slept. It was almost 12:00 am and I was starting to get sleepy, I wanted to make sure that there was no raiders around before I slept, I didn't bring my night vision goggles, but I luckily have built in night vision, built in night vision now only 100,000 caps. I looked around for any sign of raiders but found nothing, except the bird that was flying over me earlier. I kept watching it a little longer, but the bird wouldn't fly anywhere else, then out of nowhere a voice in my head called out to me.

"Reach out your hoof" the voice called inside of my head. So I stupidly listened to the voice and reached out my hoof, as I waited there for about 2 minutes looking stupid with my hoof sticking out of a wide open window when eventually I saw the bird stopped flying in circles and started flying at me, at first I thought the bird was about to attack my hoof and I wasn't quick enough to get my rifle or pistol, this bird was really fast, I closed my eyes believing I was about to be killed by this bird. But I felt something light landing on my hoof, I opened my eyes to see a strange large black bird perched on my hoof, it looked at me and tilted its head.

" Greetings Deadshot, my name is Raven." a strange female voice spoke in my head.

" Um..uh hello, am I going crazy." I spoke to myself.

" No, I am talking to you through our minds." the voice spoke. Then I remembered that other ponies can have powers too.

" If you're trying to get answers out of my mind, then you're not getting anything." I spoke back to the voice but using my mind this time.

" Silly, I'm not here for that, look over to your hoof and you'll see me." the voice replied. I looked over to my hoof, where a bird is currently perched. " Hi, I'm Raven." the bird thought at me.

" A bird is talking to me...through my mind." I thought to the bird, I was about to have a mental breakdown, I must be dead, I died and went to hell, and now I'm talking to a demon.

" I'm not a demon!" the bird thought back. " I am a dusk phoenix." Raven added.

" Ok I'm going nuts here, how does a, um, dusk phoenix talk using their minds?" I asked, she said phoenix so I just thought that they were related to a balefire phoenix or something so I didn't question it.

" We don't, but like you I got attacked by a glowing red ghoul." she answered lifting she her wing revealing a scar. " You know, I've been watching you lately, I saw how you rescued that mare and her filly." Raven added.

" Wait, you've been watching me?" I questioned, so I'm being stalked by a dusk phoenix that talks through our minds. " What kind of power do you have anyway?" I asked, I'll need to ask Zilla if creatures other than ponies or zebras can gain powers.

" Well, I have the power of telepathy, it allows me to know where a pony, zebra, or creature's location is at, at any time I want, and it allows me to talk through my mind." Raven answered.

" Why are you still following me for anyway?" I asked Raven.

" Please let me join you, I've been alone my entire life." Raven begged, looking at me with razor sharp looking eyes, but she sounds legitimately sad. I couldn't tell for sure but another voice in my head told me to use my eye. So I looked at Raven with my left eye, something in the back of my mind clicked as I saw a light blue glow appear around Raven, I just looked at Raven wondering what the blue light was, but I suddenly heard Zilla's voice.

" Your power is unique Deadshot, you can see anything, even somepony else's aura, if it is light blue they are telling you the truth, but if it is dark red then they are lying." Zilla informed in a spiritual way. How the hell is she talking to me? I thought I can only talk to her through my dream. Anyway, I made up my mind and I finally gave Raven my answer.

" Alright, I'll let you join me." I answered, if Razor Edge was here she'd say that I'm too trusting.

" Really?!" Raven asked through our minds.

" Really." I answered again.

" Then with my honor as a dusk phoenix I, Raven, pledge loyalty to you, Deadshot, and you alone." Raven replied, why would she what to pledge loyalty to me for? I'm about to kill somepony in cold blood, but I remembered something I learned from my mom, she would always talk about how loyal a phoenix was and whenever I'd ask her how she knows that she would say that it was in an old book in Tenpony tower.

" Hey Raven does a dusk phoenix ever sleep?" I asked Raven.

" Yes but only during a certain time in the day." she answered.

" Cool, do to think you can stand guard for tonight?" I asked again.

" Why of course." Raven thought back. As I was about to go to sleep I pulled out the wanted poster, it read ' Chainsaw, wanted dead or alive, 2,000 caps, leader of the Blood Jackal raiders gang, type: raider' this guy was dangerous, he'll be even more dangerous if he had powers like mine. I didn't think much of it, and I don't think stress is good for me at times like these so I just closed my eyes as I drifted off to sleep.

* * * *

I woke up suddenly to somepony calling my name, and the pony sounded worried.

" Oh thank Celestia you're alright." a bluish white unicorn mare called out.

" Oh, hi mom." I said before I took a slap to the face.

" You could have been killed you fool." tall dark version of me said.

" Hello to you too Zilla." I replied, I'm surprised that she slaps as hard as I do for her size.

" You need to train more if you're going to challenge this 'Chainsaw'." Zilla calmly stated. " But if you do manage to kill him, I want you to know that an aura will appear after his death, that aura will look for you and then it will fuse into your own aura, granting you more power.

" Wait so if I killed somepony I'll get more power?" I asked.

" No, if you kill somepony who already has power, you'll gain more power yourself, it won't give you much power but it with either grant you new abilities or unlock more secrets of your eye." Zilla answered.

" Okay then, so what more is there for me to train in." I asked standing up ready to train, receiving a smile from Zilla in return.

I'm really starting to regret my decision now, I never agreed to take on 10 shadow ponies all at once. Ok I realized how that sounded and it was not what I meant, I've been taking a beating right now, as another punch came at me I quickly dodged and smashed the shadow pony in the face with my hoof, I was going like this for about 2 hours in the dream before I collapsed to the glowing white ground.

" Well I think you've trained enough, so good luck to you in defeating Chainsaw." my mother said as she picked me off the ground, I was in a dream and I was still breathing heavily as if I just went for a 10 mile run. Though I was still way out of breath I had enough energy to give both my mom and Zilla a goodbye hug before leaving as yet again the world faded to white.

* * * *

" Gooood morning Deadshot~!" Raven shouted in my mind, ow you're hurting my brain Raven.

" *YAWN* Good morning Raven." I replied stretching my forehooves.

" Is it time to go hunting?" Raven asking using mind talk.

" Yeah let's go." I replied.

I was jumping from building to building while Raven was high in the sky looking out for raiders, as I came to a complete stop I saw a raider just before I ducked behind cover. I chanced a peek as I saw the raider standing near the edge of the building. I slowly approached the raider while attaching a silencer to my newly bought 9mm pistol, as I was basically right behind the raider I quickly clamped her mouth shut using my magic while I also held my pistol using magic, *Two silenced gunshots* I quickly shot the raider in the heart and windpipe, making sure she can't warn anypony. After I moved the raider elsewhere I quickly got down on my belly and looked through my rifle's scope while using my left eye to look through the walls. I looked around for about a few minutes and I eventually found him on the third floor of a school building, I couldn't shoot him through the wall but I could sneak into the building easily without being caught.

So I got down to work, from where I was there were many cables and wires that went all over the place, the building that Chainsaw is in was straight ahead of me from the building that I stood on, but that would be too obvious, plus there are raiders in a building connected to the school to my left on the first floor and two on the second but they were sleeping, so if I swinged straight for Chainsaw I'd be spotted very easily by the raiders on the first floor. I looked around a little longer and found that there were only ten raiders here but most of them were sleeping, so it would seem that going to the left building would be my best choice, a cable was attached from the building that I was standing on to the second floor of what was once a library of the school, the cable stopped just above a long brick balcony, the only problem was how I was going to get down there.

I looked around for any way of ziplining down to the balcony I needed something to wear for protection, then I looked at the raider I just killed, she was wearing a right leather shoulder pad with a leather breastplate and there was a strange metal hoofclaw that looks like five downward facing blades attached to a metal tube with gears and pistons on her right hoof, I tried to just get the shoulder pad, and breastplate, but the odd hoofclaw was attached by leather straps to the first two items I mentioned. So as I was finally able to get the shoulder pad and breastplate on correctly the only thing I didn't get was the weird hoofclaw, but as I had put the hoofclaw on, my right hoof that was in the hoofclaw felt something tingle as my pipbuck made a beeping noise, the pipbuck was so light that I forgot that it was still there, I looked over to my pipbuck as there was something new on it saying,' hoofclaw/dagger claws attached' it had instructions right next to it to, it said to think of fingers appearing, what the hell are those?

" Just think of claws and what they're attached to on a dragon, those are fingers." Raven thought at me.

I didn't ask and just thought of dragon claws with fingers and as I did the five blades began to change from stiff sheets of metal to fingers, each one separated from being one blade and turned into what Raven called fingers but with razor sharp blades. Oh yeah, this'll help a lot, I walked back to the edge of the building overlooking the school, Chainsaw was still there sleeping, I looked up at the cable starting to doubt my plan, these claws were sharp so I was thinking that it might cut the cable, but what other choice did I have. I looked at Raven one last time before I ziplined behind enemy lines, with my rifle strapped onto my back and pistol holstered I jumped off the roof and grabbing the steel cable with my new claws, as I quickly approached the balcony I let go of the cable to tuck and roll on the balcony, and surprisingly I successfully broke my fall and landed gracefully on the balcony.

I entered the school through the library and as I entered I saw one of the most horrific image in my life, there were dead ponies being hung from the ceiling with their intestines nailed all over the walls, and don't get me started on the smell, I couldn't wait to get this over with. As I snuck around I eventually got to a part of the library that was guarded by raiders, using my left eye I saw two raiders now moving around on this floor and two on the first floor, as I approached one of the raiders I again quickly clumped his mouth shut and shot his head, as I moved the body away another raider walked around the corner, and as she was about to shout I silenced her with a shot to the head, who needs S.A.T.S when you're as good as me. I snuck around a few more rooms and killed more raiders before I reached Chainsaw's room. As I snuck in I creeped up to the bed he was sleepin on, sound asleep unknown to his imminent demise, I shot him in the head making a big splash of blood paint the windows red, I walked up to the corpse to cut his head off and bring it back to Ponyville, but when all of a sudden a burning chain whipped out at me, luckily I managed to dodge it but I was sure he was just sleeping, I quickly ducked behind a metal desk for cover as the chains continuously not making a dent, I looked at one of doorways and saw an opening, I didn't waste time as I made a break for the door almost getting whipped in the process and as I looked back I saw the area where the chains whipped, there were really deep cuts in the floor, well now I know I shouldn't get hit by them.

"Come out come out wherever you are you cunt!" I heard Chainsaw calling, there's no way in hell would I get that close to him.

I was hiding in another room not too far from Chainsaw's room, well now I know why his name is Chainsaw, his cutie mark was two flaming chain rings in an X, but the question is how do I get close to him. I sat in thought for a moment before a burning chain whipped the metal desk, strangely not making a scratch again, I was trying my hardest to think but the fact that a flaming chain whip is cracking at me made it really hard to think. Then I thought of something.

" Maybe that'll work!" I thought to myself.

" You know what, I'm surprised that you managed to almost kill my entire gang, so for that we're gonna have lots of fun with you." Chainsaw cackled, raiders, I really really hate raiders.

" Well if you wanna do that then you've gotta use both chains!" I taunted, and with that he cracked both of his chains at me at the same time, well it's all or nothing, as both chains came down at me I used my claws to grab them, and as I it didn't shatter my claws it proved my theory correct about how he can't do much damage to anything made of metal.

" Hey, let go of my chains you cunt!" the raider leader demanded but I didn't let go of them, this guy really loved using that word, it would sometimes seem that all raiders do, but back to the point, I had his chains in my grasp so he wasn't gonna do anything, or so I thought, Chainsaw is much stronger than he looks as he was throwing me around as I was still holding on, the chains were pulling my hoof really hard making it feel as if it was tearing off, I thought I was done for when all of a sudden Raven came bursting through a window with dramatic flare and flew straight at Chainsaw, she was trying to claw at his eyes but was stopped every time as Chainsaw kept his forehooves up blocking his face, I saw an opening and took it as I shot Chainsaw in the neck with my 9mm pistol, thanks to Raven's distraction I was able to get a clear shot, but as I walk up to Chainsaw's still dying body I pulled out an old rusty hunting knife as I inserted it deep into his throat and started to move the knife around his neck as Chainsaw was trying to scream his mouth just kept spurting blood and leaked through his wide opened neck, as I finally reached the neck bones I was pulling and pulling the knife through the bones until I heard a popping noise indicating that I had finally cut through, I finally finished my handy work and was about to leave as a flaming mist flew straight at me from Chainsaw's body, I was freaked out at first due to my recent experience with fire but as I looked up my pipbuck started to beep, I looked down at my device to see a new item in the status menu that said "Abilities" , as I switched over to that menu the first ability I saw was my own and the name scared me half to death "Demonic eye" it read, why the hell is it called the demonic eye!? But then I looked at my next ability and it read "Hell Claws" oh for the love of Celestia why can't I get an ability that doesn't have to do with hell!?

I walk back to the library sulking from the apparent names my abilities had, as I made it to the exit of the library I heard crying from the first floor, as I looked over the railings from the second floor I saw two ponies in a cage as well as three others in another cage, I didn't hesitate to jump over the railings and land on the first floor.

" Please don't kill us!" a brown earth pony with a frazzled tan colored mane pleaded.

" Don't worry I'm just gonna open these cages." I assured them.

" There's no way we'd let you!" I heard a raider cackling from behind me. I turned around to see two raiders wielding tire irons as I mentally facehoofed, well I can't go back in time now. As the raiders charged at me I was trying to figure out how to use the hell claw ability, I pointed my right clawed hoof at the raiders as I closed my eyes and imagined something on fire since that's how I imagined hell to be like, I opened my eyes to see my claws light on fire, and then my claws shot out of my now metal covered hoof while attached to chains, so I got this ability after I killed Chainsaw so I must've gained my own version of his ability, as the raiders attempted to dodge my attack one of them was too slow as the claw impaled his head as the other raider stared in shock, I retracted all of my claws except the one impaled into the raider as I swung him up, down and around until his head was ripped off of his body along with his spine and strangely enough I was liking it, as I pulled the raiders head off of my claw and new chains the other raider tried to run off, but I didn't give her a chance as I shot a hell claw straight for her heart, as I yet again retracted my claw I ripped her heart out of her body in the process. After I got my claw cleaned off I walked over to the cages again.

" Well I'm gonna let you guys out now." I assured them, they didn't seem convinced as I picked the locks with my claws. " Well you're all from Ponyville right?" I asked but the ponies simply nodding. " Well I'm going back there so I'd love some company." I added, the ponies all looked at each other and simply nodded.

" We'll follow you back, if what you say is true." one of the ponies asked, they were all way too dirty to identify their coat color except the brown stallion.

" WHAT IN THE NAME OF CELESTIA IS THAT!?" one of the ponies shouted pointing up, I looked up to see Raven flying down to me and perched on my rump, what am I to you, an object to perch on?

" This is my, uh, pet and her name is Raven." I assured them, Raven didn't seem very happy about it, but went with it anyway.

About 50 minutes of walking later we were still about an hour and 10 minutes away from Ponyville and luckily nothing has attacked us.

* Meanwhile inside a bathhouse in Ponyville*

" Oh mane, Deadshot is missing out on this!" a familiar white unicorn with a blue and light blue mane and tail shouted as she looked over to a pearl white pegasus with a pink and light pink mane and tail who covers herself up by using one forehoof to cover her chest and another covering her nethers. " You don't have to do that you know." the unicorn said to the pegasus.

" Well I'm not as nice looking as you or Deadshot." the pegasus replied.

" Oh relax Moonstone you're among mares now." the unicorn responded.

" Easy for you to say Razor Edge." Moonstone whispered.

* Meanwhile in the stallions room*

A familiar Dark blue grey pegasus was sitting in a large pool of hot water.

" Ah, this is the life." the pegasus mused.

" You can say that again." a familiar electric blue unicorn with a blue and light yellow mane and tail.

" ARF!!" barked a dog.

" What the-!!" the pegasus jumped. " what's a dog doing here!?" the pegasus asked.

" She's just so lonely so I couldn't possibly leave her in my room at the inn." the unicorn answered.

" Wait, don't I know you from somewhere?" the pegasus asked, but he quickly remembers where he's seen this unicorn stallion. " wait you're um, Spectre right?" the pegasus added.

" Why yes I am, what about you?" Spectre asked in a calm tone.

" Well my name is Astral Bolt, but you can just call me Astral." Astral answered with flare.

* Back to Deadshot about an hour later*

" *Huff* Finally we're *Huff* here." a brown stallion huffed.

" Well you guys can relax, I've still got work to finish." I said as I was walking to the market area. As I was walking I noticed that everypony was looking at me weird, was it the armor?

" Deadshot?" a cloudy blue pegasus called. " Is that really you?" he added.

" Well of course it's me Swift Nimbus, who else would I be if not me?" I replied.

" Wha-what happened to your eye?" Swift Nimbus asked, Oh no, this is not happening.

" NO!!" I shouted. " Don't look at me!" I added, this is bad, I was so used to not having my eye covered that I forgot what my eye looked like as I tried to cover my face with my left hoof, but to make matters worse my hell claws activated as five flaming claws started scratching up the ground.

" Deadshot please look at me, Ah need you to calm down." Swift Nimbus asked calmly, but I couldn't calm down even if I wanted to, but as I saw a filly looking at me with a smile my panicking slowly started to dwindle as I remembered the filly, it's the same filly I rescued on the train. As my fear faded, I calmed myself to give a speech, even though I was feeling like I wanted to panic again.

" Listen up ponies of Ponyville!" I shouted, all of the ponies focused on me even more now, " The leader of the Blood Jackal raiders is now dead, I killed him so that you ponies will no longer live in fear of him." I announced as just about everypony started to cheer, I like this better than the stares I got earlier.

" Can I see the proof?" Swift Nimbus requested, I nodded as I pulled out a bag and opened the bag for him to see the head of Chainsaw. " Well Ah'll be, it really is him, well a reward was put on his head, by tomorrow morning you'll have your reward, congratulations Deadshot you're an official bounty hunter now." Swift Nimbus acknowledged, wow a bounty hunter huh? That wasn't my intention, but I guess I'll be a bounty hunter that goes after the bad guys then.

" SWIFT NIMBUS LOOKOUT!!!" a white coated unicorn mare shouted as she jumped on me.

" What are you doing Razor Edge?!" Swift Nimbus demanded.

" What do you mean what am I doing?!" Razor Edge replied. " I'm about to kill a raider!" she added, my eyes widened in horror as my sister brought her sword down on me as everything went black.

*End of Chapter two.