I’m making my way to Dainn’s castle. It’s going to be a while before I get there. But that doesn't matter that much to me, I guess not everyone went to whatever meeting that they’re having. I came across an old friend, a cross-eyed mare named Derpy. She was getting double teamed by a stallion and a Caribou. Now she’s grabbing at the bodies like she actually misses them. I pull her to her hooves and force her to look me in the eyes. One look and whatever was going through her head stopped as she's hugging me tightly with tears in her eyes. God only knows what's been happening to her for the last two years.

“Where's Dinky?” I ask, my tone an angry grunt.

“Sh-she's been rented!” Derpy tells me. I’m not sure what to make of her tone, but it's depressing or something, “I-I think I heard that she w-was heading t-to...” The waterworks start back up.

I’d push her down and continue on my way, but I can’t. I don’t know what’s happening, but I think I can feel her suffering. Her sadness. Her want for her child. And buried underneath it all... I feel her rage. I wipe away her tears and rest my hand on her shoulder.

“This is not the way you get your child back, Derpy.” I tell her with sincerity, “It’s going to be hard to think about, but I need you to tell me where Dinky is.”

Tell her to reach deep inside, To break into the ground of her emotions, and to grab hold of the memories of her child and how she was taken from her.

“... I need you to dig deep and think about who took Dinky. I’ll bring her back to you, but I don’t know where she is. Can you do that for me?”

Derpy looks me in the eyes. I show her my eyes filled with this strange sense of compassion towards her and rage towards whoever “rented” Dinky.

“Sugarcube Corner,” Derpy tells me. She is a broken mare, but she can be saved. I can see it inside her.

“Go to my place. There’s food in the basement and I kept the guest room clean.”

Derpy hugs me one last time before making a run for my place. I’m going to a place where Lyra loved to go. Maybe I’m lucky and Pinkie Pie’s Party Cannon. I always wondered what it could to someone at point blank.

As I head to Sugarcube Corner, I see a bony Caribou wearing glasses and decent clothes surround by shirtless and muscular Caribou. The bony one is getting pushed around by the muscular ones, all of them talking.

“You didn’t show up where we told you to.” One of the muscular Caribou says as he pushes the bony Caribou into a puddle of mud, “C’mon, we had a mare waiting for ya!”

“It’s not nice to miss out on pussy when it’s offered, you know.”

“I told you all, I wasn’t interested.” The bony Caribou says before getting solidly kicked in the face.

Hm. He’s just an innocent victim getting beaten in the mud. What? I shouldn’t care, he’s never done a thing to hurt anyone.

“Look At You! So Prim And Proper, Huh!”

I raise my M4 and switch it from safe to semi. I lay waste to those who chose to hurt the man currently bleeding in the mud. I step closer to the group making sure to put a bullet in all their heads except one! The one who deliberately attacked a man who couldn’t defend himself even if he wanted to! As the maggot stands there in shock, I kick him into the mud next to the Caribou with glasses.

“He chose not to go because he doesn’t go for girls.” I growl as I toss the M4 and go for the dagger on the Caribou’s pants, “So tell me. Was it worth making him suffer?”

“E-excuse me, Mr. Human?” The Caribou with glasses asks.

“What!!” I Bark!

“... Do it.”

I smile at the bony Caribou as I cut the last muscular one’s head clean off of his neck. I guess I won’t get my answer now, but I don’t about getting it. As long as I get my revenge for losing Lyra. I guess my M4 attracted attention, I see some guards. I reach for my Glock and unload it into the three guards that are charging me. They all fall and die on the ground. I reach for my M4 and look around. They’re all dead. All the deserving. All the wicked. But Dainn’s castle is where the meat of the crowd is. Only there will I have my vengeance! I check on the bony Caribou, and he’s gone. That’s probably for the best. There’s no one up ahead, so I lower my M4 and continue on my way.

You held back.

What are you on about?

If you seek vengeance, then show them all your anger. Show them your rage! Reveal how legendary you can be![/i]

Wouldn't I become blinded by my rage?

Your rage will guide you. Trust my words, you will not hurt the wrong people.

… You’d better be right.

Anyway, I made it to Sugarcube Corner but something’s not right. It's not that the place hasn't been converted to some kind of slave shop, it's that the place seems to be the same. The only thing that's different is that the place has a sign in front of it that reads “Spike’s Property”. I remember when Spike got greedy before, it was before I fell in love with Lyra. He went through my stuff and found my weapons. I showed him what they could do. This time, I’ll show him my rage. Let the greedy fucker take all that he can take of it.

I approach the doorway and walk right through, my M4 raised to make sure that Spike won’t ambush me. My rage is only disappointed. The first room has no one, and the place seems to be empty. I enter the kitchen and find something that reminds me of Dinky… She wore a pair of shoes that Rarity made for her. It was Rarity's way of helping out Derpy because she was a single mother who struggled to get by sometimes. The ponies don't need shoes, but these ones were special. Dinky wore them to feel safe.

They're on the floor at the start of the stairs with specks of blood on them.

“What are you doing in Spike’s home!” A voice- not as angered as I am- says. I immediately turn around and set my M4 from Semi to Auto and unleash the weapon on the fucking dragon. I cry out in rage as I spray Spike, but it's no use as he walks towards me. My bullets can't hurt him. He throws a punch at me. I catch it. He swings another punch. I miss and he hits me in the stomach…

I need to throw-up. I barf on Spike, spraying him with blood that will leave him burning! As the dragon burns, I punch him away and through the walls! I ready myself to face him again!... And then I think about Dinky.

I walk back over to Dinky’s shoes and pick them up. I still haven’t checked the whole place, Dinky might be upstairs. I head up the stairs and see Dinky tied up on a bed. Her horn has been cut off and she’s only in her underwear. I walk over to Derpy’s daughter and untie her. As soon as she’s free, she springs onto me. She doesn’t say anything while I wrap a blanket around her. I don’t say anything to her. Nothing needs to be said.

As I’m about to pick Dinky up, Spike smashes through the wall to confront me. It appears that my rage has left him without scales.

“SPIKE WANT HEAD!!!”

“I’LL GIVE YOU MY RAGE!!!” I cry out as two red assault rifles appear in my hands and I show Spike my Rage!! My bullets tear through the Dragon as I don’t let off, but I stop and let him fall to the floor. I pick up his head from his spikes and look him in his eyes. My blood burns away at his flesh and leaves him suffering. I summon a pistol and put a bullet in his head.

Spike falls to the floor, dead. I turn back to Dinky, and she’s terrified.

“I-I...” I fail to say anything. How could I? I shield my eyes from looking at her, I don’t deserve to. But as I do so, Derpy stops me.

“Allen.” Derpy says, moving my hand away from my face, “Don’t do that to yourself. What happened to the old you? What happened to Mr. Not Important?”

I have nothing to say back. I just stay silent.

“Don’t worry about if you traumatized my daughter, I think she’s just shocked to see you defend the girl you used to shoo away. Just keep hating. You’re good at it.”

I look her in her weird eyes and she smiles at me. I get up, pick up my M4, and head for the hole in the wall. I jump to the roof of the lower, but I notice that I’m faintly glowing red and floating down. I look around and see a floating blue cat in a black and red jumpsuit looking right at me.

I here to give you something.

“Are you that voice in my head?”

No. But he have something for you. Check back pocket.

I check my back pocket and pull out a red ring.

“What’s this thing?”

Put ring on.

“I’m trying to kill shit, get out of my way..”

The cat pukes on me and I burn in anger.

Put ring on. Direct anger towards what you seek to kill and ring will guide you. Say oath of ring, and become Red Lantern. Ring will bring you power through rage.

“Gr-What a-are you doing to me!”

You feel pain because you resist. Ring help regulate your current fluctuation currently happening. Accept offer and receive strength. I here to help, not stop.

I put on the ring on my trigger finger, and feel... I feel good. With those strange feelings from earlier and this new feeling, I realize that I was losing control. And this new feeling makes me feel like I have the same strength, but the power to control it. I look around for the cat but find that it’s gone.

Say oath to fully grasp power. You know it when you need to.

I have no idea what kind of oath he’s talking about, and I don’t care about it. All that matters is that I found Derpy and Dinky. It seems like I haven’t lost everything. But I still lost Lyra, and the Dainn’s Empire will pay. I’ll make sure of it. And I’m going to his castle to kill everything inside that’s made what I love suffer. But I’ve got to make it over there first, then I’ll have my revenge.

Author's Note

Ripped from a corpse so freshly dead...

This totally feels like I rushed it, so I apologize if it seems to be poor quality.