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At three, I took off the bandana and we both actually released them. Cloudchaser limped over and passed the boy, who practically crawled for the brothers. Despite all the distrust I had for them, they were somehow telling the truth. Maybe keeping the boy hostage was the right choice.

Cloudchaser limped over before falling halfway. Dash and I sprinted over to help. Her side had only been mildly torn by the bullet, as it had gone from the top of it through the left side of her chest and to the ground. "Oh, Devan it hurts ..."

"I know, I know ... I'm so sorry."

Nurse Redheart came rushing over to help with her medical supplies, and she nervously ran past the boys, who had come to the wounded boy's attention. I still couldn't believe they traded. What was going on in their minds?

"Devan, there's more of my equipment in Rarity's saddlebag. Please get it, and hurry," the nurse said.

As I got up, the main boy came face to face with me. He had black wavy hair, and red eyes, presumably from contact lenses. "Hey man, thanks for not holding out on us," he said. Still a bit shocked, I simply nodded and started to walk past until he grabbed me by the neck and pulled me back. "Devan!" Dash yelled. I felt his gun push up against my head. "You like this, huh?! Since this was your whole idea after all!"

"Stop this!" Twi came up, shouting. One of the boy's sidekicks drew a gun to her head, causing her to stop.

"You didn't really think you could get away with that, did you?" He pushed the gun against my head forcefully.

"I had to stop you guys!"

"You didn't have to stop shi-"

"Bang!"

Silence followed the gunshot as it struck him. It was so rapid that it took the other boys by surprise. The one that had a pistol to Twi's skull frowned angrily and turned back to her.

"No!"

"Bang!"

I had reached for my holster last second until another shot rang out. But when I looked back, Twi wasn't there. She had vanished last second. The confused boy looked back at the barrel of my gun pointed at him. "Please don-"

"Bang!"

One more gunshot from Discord took out the boy caring for the wounded brother. He'd also gotten up and reached for his gun. Now they all laid on the bloody grass. Blood had splattered from the main boy's head to my clothes, but that was the least of my worries right now. The wounded boy was barely breathing and Twi was nowhere to be found. Maybe in Canterlot? Whoever saved her, I was grateful, but how would they have known what was going on? And where was she?

"Devan."

I looked back to see her behind me. "Oh thank god! Did you do that?"

"No." She nodded behind her, where I saw Lyra coming out of the bushes with a pistol strapped over her shoulder.

"Thank you so much!" I ran past Twi and hugged her.

"Yeah, I overheard the commotion. I followed the boys here from the hospital, where they kidnapped Cloud. I've been in this bush since that dude started counting. Knew something was up, even when he released Cloud like that."

"You're the one that shot him?" I glanced at the boy.

"Yes."

"I can't thank you enough for what you've done. You're a lifesaver!"

"Huh ... funny knowing the last time I heard that was finding Bon Bon's sock behind the washer. You're welcome though."

Twi and her hugged as well when Discord came up behind me. "Devan, Fluttershy was skimmed," he informed.

Flutters too? Hadn't she been through enough? So we had Cloud, Rarity, Flutters, and me who needed treatment. "Oh, alright. We'll get her looked at after Cloud."

"Thank you." He walked back to the station.

We had actually managed to get away with just one injury. Things were starting to look up. I walked over to the nurse's side.

"Thank goodness you all are okay," she said, "That was a bit of a shock."

"I know, tell me about it."

"Now ... about that equipment."

"I got it right here," Rarity limped to us.

"Oh, thank you. Just rest right here, and I'll try to get you patched up too." The nurse grabbed it and scuffled through it while Rarity hesitantly leaned to sit down. Cloud had the wound covered and wrapped around to apply pressure. She looked me up and down. "Is your leg gonna be okay?" Cloudchaser asked. I looked down to see blood trails from the skims. How did two little bullet skims manage to cause this?

"I'll be alright. You two hang in there."

I got up and limped over to the station. Just now was I feeling how horrid a condition my leg was in. This was a desperate situation though. Rarity looked rather fine. Spike was calming her while they waited for the nurse. I didn't waste too much time overlooking them. Now I had to see what kind of condition Flutters was in. On the way, Dash stopped me. "Hey, are you gonna get that looked at or what?"

"I'm fine, let me see Flutters."

She gritted her teeth. "Devan, we got her for now. We'll let you look later. Why don't I look after your wound?"

"It's fine. The nurse will look at it later," I insisted. But I was starting to feel queasy. I was losing more blood than I cared to admit.

"No. Discord is helping Flutters. AJ is there too. I have to help you."

I reluctantly agreed, and she began working on my leg.

"Are we done yet?" I asked.

Dash finished taping on the last strip of gauze over my leg.

"You're fine. Just lay still."

"How's Flutters? Can you check on her for me?"

"Look, Devan ..."

"What? What are you talking about? Dash, why are you acting weird?"

She frowned. "Devan ... she was bit."