Philosophy of the Damned

Alright a bit of gore in this one so put on your favorite song, grab some coco, and warm up with a burning corpse. Oh yeah, happy labor day weekend.

You could feel the rage seep from my body, it was like a field of anger and pain that would soon engulf the dogs. Everyone avoided me as well as they could, they all avoided my gaze like it would submerge them in fire. One would be frightened to know what was running through my head at that time. I threw the door to the bar open stopping all conversation immediately.

“Cap’, are you okay?” Asked Trip. If only they knew.

“Everyone up! We’re going on are first mission!” I yelled with angst. They were all up and out the door.

“Head to the outskirts near the gem mines, we’ll link up shortly.” I said sternly. Despite how little time we had been together I had absolute loyalty from all of them.

As I headed through the town with my ire growing I had made it to the tree house. I didn’t bother knocking for there was no time. I saw the bag I had left for twilight to study as a bit of a gift. Picking it up I could feel nothing had been taken out. I had brought my duffle bag incase I needed to camp out. Inside were the tools of my trade: some Molotov cocktails, ammo, binoculars, vodka, food, an explosives clacker, some detonators, and some grenades and plastic explosives I got from raiding an armory. I would pity these creatures if I hadn’t felt anything but that sense of pain I would cause them.

Let’s go make some pelts.

The voices in my head were starting to go too, for once they may be some use to me.

Throwing the bag over my shoulder I felt a sense of anger at myself for falling back in this way, it’s to late now. I wouldn’t let a single one of them escape this. Opening the door I grew a vengeful scowl on my face. I walked the rest of the way letting my anger take hold.

Reaching the outskirts I saw the elements talking to Trip. They turned around and saw me with my face turned in a twist of hate and insanity behind my mask.

“You can’t do this?!” Exclaimed Twilight.

“Watch me.” I said back as I walked past.

“Everyone pick a post and make sure none escape!” I ordered my squad.

“Yes sir!”

“Trip you have that earpiece still?” I asked.

“Yes sir, setting communications channel two.” He said attaching it poorly to his ear. I had taught him and him alone how to use it.

“Alright then, I’m going in.” I said pulling on my mask.

“You ain’t doin’ this alone, my sister is in there too!” Said Applejack.

“Jackal, make sure these mares stay right here.” I said walking in after I took the plastic explosive, clacker and a detonator while leaving the rest outside.

“I’ll get them out don’t worry.”

“You have to let us help!” Said Rainbow. Any patience that had remained was gone, I snapped. I was done with being told what to do. I felt my eye twitch and my anger boil.

I ignored what they said and walked into the mouth of the cave. I would make sure that they would regret ever crossing us. I set a line of explosives in a crack about twenty feet in. After that it became dark from the lack of natural sunlight.

“NV engage.” I said so I would be able to see.

It wasn’t long before I came to a cross in the caves. Picking the one on the right a low glow lit up the ground, I heard the chatter farther down. I was ready, it was time to kill.

“What do you think they will do with them?” Said one.

“Slaves or sex toys like the rest what else?” If I was pissed off before, then I was about to release an unholy wrath on them. I let my madness consume me. I raised my rifle and turned the corner.

“What are you doing here?!”

“Get him!”

I fired twice dropping them both. I didn’t care about stealth anymore, I would show them my fury. They had been guarding the entrance to a large better lit atrium with a cloth tapestry and a couple wooden chairs. I saw the kids, and the dogs. There were at least ten and all saw me.

“Rush!” Yelled the CMC. Good they were still alive.

“Stop him!” Said one that looked like the leader. I don’t think so.

“NV disengage.”

Lighting a Molotov I threw it at the group over by the leader. It landed in the middle of them and exploded into a puddle of flames lighting their fur. There squeals of pain did nothing to stifle me. If anything it was music to me. I could see them trying to roll on the floor to no effect. Their fur burned and skin blackened, it almost made me smile under my mask. I saw the others charging at me.

I sidestepped the first swing and tripped him before blowing his brains onto the floor. The next one tried the same but instead I just drove the stock of the gun into his nose, no doubt sending bones into the brain. His friend tried to tackle me, I grabbed him by the throat and slammed him into the floor before I smashed my boot into his forehead covering it in blood among other things. The other two hesitated, I took this time to re-sling my rifle and pull out my trench knife.

I charged them, tackling one I drove my knife into his chest before pulling out and repeatedly stabbing him in the chest covering my arms in the blood, almost bathing in it.
His friend tried pulling me off of him. So, instead I flipped my knife and jabbed it into his leg. As he cried in pain and fell over trying to remove the blade from his calf I got up and stood over him. He looked up at me with fear in his eyes, it was delicious. I stomped on the blade causing it to go even further in, I stomped it again forcing it through the bone and out the other side of his leg. I then dropped my knee onto his chest causing him to lose his breath, I then started to pummel him with my gloved fist snapping his jaw. He still managed to stay awake. I finally pulled out my pistol and put it into his now slackened maw, pulling the trigger I saw the explosion of his blood come out of the top of his head. I was drenched in blood, I would be a terrifying sight to others.

As I got up I remembered the reason I was here, the kids. Walking over to them I could see fear in their eyes.

“R-rush?” asked Applebloom shakily. I could see bruises and cuts on them, that only made me want to kill more.

“Stay with me and we’ll be okay.” I said before retrieving my knife from the dead dogs calf.

Turning back around to face them I saw they were not going to question me, I also saw that the furniture and tapestry had caught the fire and were causing a lot of smoke. That was my cue to leave. As we went to head out the way I came I had attracted a lot of unwanted attention.

I began firing at the dogs that were heading to check out what had happened. The shots continued to ring through the cave as more and more started to chase us. I could see the mouth of the cave as I fired at the ones chasing us. We had reached the crack in the wall when I had just started firing wildly into the smoke, about ten shots were fired before I heard the dreaded click. As I made it just outside the mouth I tried reloading, but was tackled by three diamond dogs.

I could have called for assistance from the others but instead I just pulled out the clacker and squeezed. I couldn’t hear the explosion, but saw it. The dog on top of me saw it too, this gave me just enough time to hit him in the side of the head and switch it where I was on top of him. I immediately head butted him which disoriented him and pulled out my knife and started ramming the hand guards into his face. Feeling bones crack and blood flow I couldn’t help but take joy in it. I kept going until I was sure he was dead.

I then turned my attention to the other two who were still focusing on the cave. I took my opportunity and drove my blade into the smaller one’s spine all the way to the hilt before pulling it out and slitting his throat getting more and more satisfaction in my bloodlust. This got the attention of the larger one, he wasn’t happy. I dodged a slash he made towards me before jamming my blade into his paw and the ground sticking him there.

Now everyone’s eyes were on me, this would be fun. I sauntered over to the injured dog, I could tell he was the alpha, I would be having fun with this. My first move was to stomp at the leg snapping it like a twig, I could hear him scream in pain. It was annoying so I rammed my kneecap into his jaw making him fall over into the dirt. I then gave him a swift kick to the mouth knocking out a couple teeth. Proceeding to work him over I stomped on his chest, feeling the breaking of his ribs I couldn’t help but let out a harsh laugh of insanity.

It just felt amazing giving pain to one who has caused so much to others. I bent down over him and put my hands around his throat and squeezed, I would bring him up for a head butt every few seconds. I could feel all the strength leave his body as he took his last breath. I pulled my knife out of his paw before I got up. I was drenched with their blood. For the extra assurance I gave one final stomp to the head. I could feel the bone crunch and the blood jump onto my leg. I scraped the grey and pink leftovers off of my boot into the dirt.

I took a deep breath before I turned to face the horrified crowd. The gunfire and explosives had attracted attention from the town. I saw that even Celestia was there with her own troops. All of them stared at me wide eyed, even my own soldiers were surprised by my brutality. There was no good that would come out of this. I had bigger problems though, I could feel my consciousness slipping. I fell to me knees with my the darkness closing in, I saw Scootaloo try to run towards me but to no avail. I could barely feel my chest hit the ground as I faded into the black.

“Rush!” Screamed someone before I finally got my rest.