Author's Note

This chapter is long, very long... Sorry! but if you were looking for violence, here you have a duel.

I recommend you to read this chapter in night mode because there are some words that are boldened in bright yellow and beige, and that may hurt your eyes while reading in normal mode. Thank you!

Chapter 20: A Duel in La Lima

Before the duel, which will happen at 12:00., Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo come out of Canterlot High during a recess. Sweetie Belle still has her scar, which was caused by a knife cut Lucas Plegovich made to her back in the Train. She's now afraid of trains and alone in her world. The only ones near her now are his parents, Cookie Crumbles and Hondo Flanks, whose mother already lived in Canterlot and his father recently moved to the house. Both Hondo and her tried to inform several journalists about her daughter Rarity's disappearance, but no one has ever answered them yet. On the other hand, Hondo has tried looking for his father, Abe Flanks, once but failed, he went to Los Mantos and couldn't find anything. While Hondo Flanks is working for the family, Cookie takes care of Sweetie Belle in the house.

What about Scootaloo and Applebloom? Applebloom is also alone, because both of his brothers, Applejack and Big Mac, have disappeared. Granny Smith is the only one that can take care of her, and after finishing with her daily job, Granny takes her granddaughter, Applebloom, to home. Granny's business, Sweet Apple Acres, which also belonged to the Canterlot's Government, has been bought by a bigger company. She's not the owner anymore, so she is doing her best at her job in Canterlot High, and thanks to Celestia and Luna, she has a bigger salary. Scootaloo doesn't have any disappeared relative, but she empathizes with her two best friends and feels under the weather because of that.

While leaving the school, everyone, even them, talks about what happened hours ago: four mysterious men took Zephyr Breeze away. His gestures showed... fear. He fainted while the men were taking him and never came back. What did they do to him? Is he alive? Is he OK? Maybe yes? Maybe not?

The Cutie Mark Crusaders pass by the entrance door and get in the street. However, Applebloom looks around her and immediately stops walking. Scootaloo stops and asks her what's the matter.

"I just..." says Applebloom, while sitting on the stairs. "I feel... I have to do something."

"For what?" asks Scootaloo.

"To make all of this stop."

Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle look at each other. "But... how, Applebloom?" says Scootaloo. "We can't do anything to go back to normal. It looks like this is big and... sadly, the bad guy will win this time."

"I still feel we have to do something, Scoots..." says Applebloom. "At least, find out where my sister and her friends are."

"But we are not sure about where can they be," says Sweetie Belle, while sitting next to Applebloom. The Apple teenager girl nudges her friend's shoulder.

"But we can find where they are."

"How?" says Scootaloo.

"I have an idea."

Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo look at each other again. They don't follow her ideas.

W, Rushy and the Dazzlings are driving near Jack and Abe's car. The song has just finished and now the inside is pure silence. Rushy looks at W for a second. "Hey," he says. "Check if there is another CD."

W opens the glovie and finds there is another CD: Master of Reality by Black Sabbath. "Man..." says W. "These guys had a good taste."

"Yeah," says Rushy, smiling. "Master of Reality? Play it right now. I need to unburden myself before all of this."

W still feels guilty because of Big Kahuna's fate and Twilight's question keeps struggling on his mind. However, he has his thoughts focused on another thing. He gets the Radiohead's CD out and puts the Master of Reality CD, waiting for the first song to start. Then, seconds later, someone starts coughing. It is Sweet Leaf. W lowers the volume, though. "Rushy," he says. "I want to tell you something."

"What?"

"Those guys also told me they had a leader in La Lima... Doom Kid."

"...that guy must die," he whispers.

"Yeah," he says. "But I want to get rid of him... in a specific way."

Rushy lowers the car's speed. "What you mean with... specific? You will use those pills?"

"No," says W, sighing. "You will be the only one that will understand... I will fight Doom Kid... on a duel."

Rushy immediately stops the car and stops the stereo. The Dazzlings want to know what is happening, and then, Jack and Abe stop the car too.

"What happened?" says Jack while lowering the window.

Rushy keeps looking at W. "This kid wants to fight the leader guy on a duel."

"A duel?" says Jack. "On la Lima? Are you fucking crazy, W?"

"No," says W. "I have the pills, you know..."

"But you can't cheat!" says Abe. "You know, we are gangsters, but... we don't mess with Lima shit!"

"Come on!" shouts W. "Doom Kid killed everyone! He deserves this! He deserves to suffer in the duel!"

"Are you sure?" says Rushy. "You seem that you don't care about your decision. You can die, seriously. We can lose you in that battle."

"Plegovich and all his henchmen are looking for us," says W. "As Aria said before, everyone here is about to die if we don't make the right moves. If we enter and start shooting, they will kill us, but if we take the duel... they may give us a chance. You know gangsters respect the duel with their lives."

"What do you mean with the duel, in the first place?" says Adagio.

"A duel where two men fight until death, girl," answers Rushy. "Yeah, you are right... if we say we bring the duel... we may distract all those motherfuckers... but are you sure you want to do that sacrifice?"

W looks first at the Radiohead CD which was Big Kahuna's and then at everyone. He slowly nods his head while looking at Jack and Abe. "Yeah... I'll do it."

Rushy nudges W's back. "Wish you luck, kid."

"Thank you," he answers. Sonata Dusk does the same, and Jack and Abe nod their heads too, agreeing with W.

"Um... well, wish you luck too," says Adagio and Aria only raises her thumb. Spike, Twilight and Big Mac only look at him. Rushy looks at the stereo.

"Shall I put Solitude to calm you down?" he asks.

Solitude is the calmest song in Master of Reality, something that makes W chuckle. "Come on, dude... play Into the Void."

"That's the attitude I like," says Rushy, chuckling. "We are going to bring down those motherfuckers."

"And thank you too, girls," says W. "Thank you."

"You are welcome, Mr Bedmaker!" shouts Sonata while Rushy plays Into the Void by Black Sabbath.

Meanwhile, at Canterlot High's Library, Applebloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle are looking for something through the newspapers that were released this week. Since the Plegovich thing begun, Celestia and Luna decided to save the newspapers in the school to preserve this dark and cruel page of Equestria's history.

"Are you sure your idea is worth it?" whispers Scootaloo. "We've been here for fifteen minutes."

"I'm trying to find out that, Scootaloo," answers Applebloom while reading a newspaper. Suddenly, she finds something that calls her attention: his brother is on a photo. "Girls!" whispers Applebloom. "M... My brother!"

Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo get up and find Big Mac is on a photo, carrying a box filled with tools next to other men. The title reads: "Once again, our workers, who will rebuild the way to our new Equestria, are building a new harbour on Saik City."

"Saik City?" says Applebloom. "Where is that?"

"Saik..." whispers Scootaloo. "I think it's north Equestria. Far, far away, Applebloom..."

"Look at his face," says Sweetie Belle. "He seems to be... lost."

And he is, indeed. The CMC look at Applebloom's brother's face. He is lost, sad, trying to find the way back home. "Yeah," says Applebloom. "He seems to be... looking for me."

"And did you find something about the girls?" asks Sweetie Belle. "We have to be quick, we only have five minutes left for the next subject.."

"No, I can't find anything..."

Manehattan. Near Equestria's House.

On the other hand, Plegovich is talking to Filthy Rich on his office, who is one of the co-owners of EBS, Equestrian Broadcasting System, a conglomerate which owns plenty of TV channels of Equestrian media. Plegovich plans to use EBS to broadcast to all of Equestria the hidden truth: He wants people to identify Strict Proclamation and all of the previous presidents as enemies who were taking Equestria into a path of darkness with no sense at all. Plegovich, who has now a new nickname: The Leader, wants to put himself in the spotlight, telling people why he did bring Strict Proclamation down, using a secret, an abandoned project which was planned years ago by another president called Project Nine. Project Nine was about the privatization of almost every public company in Equestria, which could have leaden to massive unemployment and also a sharp rise in poverty, with more people who don't have enough to get the necessities to survive. Plegovich wants to tell people that Strict Proclamation wanted to turn Project Nine into a real thing, destroying Equestrians from the inside. That's why he brought him down, and that's why he is there: to save them all. To save equestrians from their worst enemy: themselves.

"What do you think, huh?" says Plegovich while looking at Filthy Rich. "It's a proper way to promote... no, another word... to show people what is this all about."

"Uh..."

"You see, all of a sudden, Project Nine appears and is born... it's the devil."

"Um..."

"The Devil appears, Strict Proclamation goes down, I rise... The Leader rises."

"Look, Mr Plegovich..."

"The Leader rises, people start to understand what's happening... and... and... what?"

"Um..." says Filthy Rich, rubbing his hair. "You see, you are a good guy, pals of the Elite know you very well, but I think this is not the proper way to use us... we are a broadcasting system... not a political party."

"Umm... I never said I was going to promote this."

"You said it."

Plegovich takes a breath. He doesn't like to be discussed. "Well, it was just a mistake..." he says, smiling. "Isn't it?"

"Um, look... sorry, but we don't want to mess with these things, you know we are not a subjective system... we are objective, Mr Plegovich, we don't promote politicians."

"Oh," says Plegovich, while raising an eyebrow and smiling. "I see, well..."

Seconds later, Sergei comes in with a bag. "Hey!" shouts Filthy Rich. "You can't en..."

"He will enter," says Plegovich. "He's my assistant, Sergei Duzov."

"A pleasure to meet you," says Sergei.

"But..."

"He will stay in this office room because I say it," answers Plegovich. "Open the bag, Sergei."

Sergei opens the bag and shows a couple of photos to Filthy Rich: one of them has Gordo, the old Canterlot's capo who was murdered by Plegovich's men, and Mortimer Blueblood. Filthy Rich's pupils fade from fear while looking at the pictures. "Um... who are they?" he says.

"Come on..." says Plegovich. "You know them, Filth."

"No... no idea... I never saw them before."

"Stop lying!" says Plegovich, laughing. "The three of us know that you tried to participate on that stupid, fake robbery planned by Blueblood... desperately to gain money because EBS was slowly falling into his death and nobody of Your friends from the Equestrian Elite wanted to give you a freaking cent.. you know why? Because of Project fucking Nine, Filthy! Don't you know that? EBS is a public company."

"No, no! I would never join the mafia because of desperation!"

"Yes, yes!" shouts Plegovich. "You would join the mafia because of desperation... and we have evidence."

Sergei gets out another photo. It's a photo of Gordo and him, sharing a cup of tea. "Oh, fuck," says Sergei, laughing. "I think the guy in the left looks like you."

Filthy Rich rubs his head. "So... you are blackmailing me?"

"No, we are playing Pictionary, dumbass," says Plegovich. "If you want to call it like that, yes, we are blackmailing you. If you don't make my political propaganda I will call all of the Equestrian Gazettes to show the entire world who is Filthy Rich."

Filthy Rich keeps rubbing his head and takes his jacket off, but then, he starts laughing. "Show it... I don't care. I don't care about jail. I prefer jail rather than promoting your stupid, fascist political propaganda."

Sergei looks at Plegovich, shocked. The madman, the Leader only does one thing. He smiles. All the time. Then, he slowly approaches Sergei's face. "I knew this would happen," he says. "Thanks for the plan B, Sergei. Now, call that magical phone number: Zero... Three..." Filthy Rich's smile slowly disappears while hearing that phone number. "Four... Two... Four... Six... One..." Filthy Rich prays. He wants him not to say One again. "One..." Oh gosh... oh no... please, don't say one one more time. "One..." His mind is begging him not to say eight, please, no, no... "Eight."

Sergei calls the phone number while looking at Filthy Rich. The magnate waits for Spoiled Rich or his daughter, but someone else answers the call instead.

"Oh, so plan B worked? Hahaha! Bonzo, Sergei has just called me! You owe me 100 fucking bucks!"

"Hey, Slash," says Plegovich. "Bring me the little girl."

"No!" shouts Filthy Rich. "No, please, no! Uh... uh... I'll..." he says while crying and gasping. "Oh, my god... I'll do all of the political propaganda this weekend... please, let her go... please..."

Plegovich laughs like a maniac. "Hey, Slash," says Plegovich. "Let the girl go."

"What, why?"

"Let her go, he has just apologized."

"Ha, what a pussy."

Sergei ends the call while looking at Rich, who is rubbing his head and trying to take a breath while cleaning his face. "Thank you, Mr Rich," says Plegovich. "I'd like to show me the propaganda when it's finished."

Little Billy is looking at the route, waiting for Big Kahuna to come. Behind him, metres away, Doom Kid is lying against one of the remaining cottages' wall. Gangsters are still getting rid of the inhabitants' bodies, by putting them all inside dirty blankets and throwing them far from the cottages, on the wastelands. Well... After all, La Lima was and still is a wasteland too.

Suddenly, Doom Kid gets up and a gangster finds out: "What's up, Kid?" he asks.

"You know..." says Doom Kid. "I feel... someone's left."

"Left? What do you mean?"

Doom Kid looks at his men carrying the blankets far away. "I mean... I recognized some faces but... I didn't find one I do remember."

"You mean... the inhabitants we killed?"

"Yeah," says Doom Kid. "I think... there's one left."

"But we killed them... all of them," answers the gangster.

"No," says Doom Kid. "There's one left... a guy with an ushanka on his head. I never saw him."

Meanwhile, the gangsters start listening to a familiar song: Into the Void by Black Sabbath. Rushy, from the car, looks at Little Billy waving his hand. "Girls," says Rushy, smiling.

"Excuse me?" says Adagio. "Are you talking to us?"

"Who am I talking to then?" says Rushy. "One question... Have you ever seen a car running over someone?"

"Don't you dare," says Aria.

"Oh, come on..." says Rushy. "He's a freaking midget!"

Rushy starts accelerating and the Dazzlings beg him to stop. Jack's car is behind them.

Meanwhile, Little Billy realizes something's wrong. The car is going for him. Whoever is driving the car, it's not Big Kahuna. "Wait!" shouts Little Billy. "Sto--!"

Too late. Little Billy tries to run, but Rushy runs over him and the little gangster's body gets stuck under the car, breaking his neck and killing him. The gangsters and Doom Kid draw their guns, pointing at the car. They don't want to shoot, just in case the guy inside it's Big Kahuna.

"Oh... my... god," says Adagio, shocked. "WHY IN THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT?"

"It was completely necessary!" shouts Rushy, and then he lowers the window. "WAIT! WAIT! DON'T SHOOT!"

Doom Kid's face turns into pure shock. "That guy," he whispers. "I was talking about that guy."

"DON'T SHOOT!" shouts Rushy. "I HAVE THE ULTIMATE OFFER FOR YOU!" he shouts and then nudges W's shoulder. "Stay here, I have an idea."

Rushy gets out of the car, while the Dazzlings rub their head. "Oh my god, Adagio," says Aria. "I've just seen a guy getting ran over and killed and now that dude wants to talk to a horde of weirdos...god, why?"

"Calm down," says W, while stopping the CD and getting it inside the case. "You won't do anything."

"Anything?" says Adagio. "Are you kidding me? We had enough... our adoptive mother was murdered, we got rid of one guy, we slept on an abandoned house... and now we need to get rid of all these assholes?"

"No, no," says W. "Change the words... you won't get rid of those assholes... I will get rid of those assholes."

"Oh, look at this!" whispers Sonata. "I found some cool shades!"

Sonata grabs some black round sunglasses that were under W's seat. Adagio and Aria ignore her, but W takes a look at the sunglasses. It reminds him of those sunglasses he used that day when he went with Trixie to the Canterlot Mall. He remembers her words:

"Nobody may recognize you now, so you can take off that beanie, although Trixie likes those sunglasses... they make you great like me."

"Can I keep them, Sonata?" asks W.

"Sure!" she answers, smiling. Adagio chuckles.

"Why do you want to use those sunglasses right now?" says Aria.

W laughs. "Why wouldn't I?"

Meanwhile, Rushy is confronting them all. The gangsters also notice that Jack and Abe get down from another car. "What is this?" says Doom Kid. "Jack Tyler? Abe Flanks?"

"Doom Kid Madison," says Abe. "What a surprise! I haven't seen you since you had two arms."

"Shut the fuck up or I'll shoot you in the head," says Doom Kid. "You already killed Billy and Big Kahuna, I don't mind killing all of you now."

"And you killed all of my friends of La Lima, like nothing," says Rushy. "I also want to kill you now, but we've been thinking about something."

Doom Kid aims his gun to Rushy's head. "I don't care. You will be someone else on my death list."

"What about a duel?" says Jack, and Doom Kid puts his finger inside the trigger. However, he doesn't pull it. He is just standing there, straight. The gangsters who were behind Doom Kid, holding their guns, are slowly moving them away from their enemy's heads, only to look at their leader in La Lima: the one-armed man, Doom Kid. "What do you think, kid?"

Doom Kid puts the gun down. "A duel... against who?"

"We can't tell you yet," says Rushy. "We are offering you a duel. You know gangsters like us, like you, take this very seriously. We will only tell you if you accept your offer. If you decline it... I'm afraid I won't..."

"And I will kill you if I decline," says Doom Kid. "What you think, guys?"

"Come on," says one of the men. "They killed Billy, Kahuna... Let them have some fun before killing them, Kid."

Doom Kid chuckles. "Ok."

Rushy, Jack and Abe look at each other, smiling. "He said OK," whispers Sonata from inside the car. At the same time, Spike tells Twilight and Big Mac the same thing.

"I hope W can survive this one," whispers Twilight.

"Are you sure?" says Big Mac. "Seems these folks know what're they doing... they may kill da boy in a couple of seconds."

Outside, Doom Kid smiles. "I accept your offer."

"Ok," says Rushy. "Hey, big boy! COME HERE!"

"No!" shouts Sonata. "They are gonna kill you!"

"Just stay here, girls," says W while getting out of the car. Dirty face and hair, round black sunglasses, black t-shirt with his cutie mark, ripped blue jeans, black shoes and his characteristic dirty brown trenchcoat with blood drops. He comes out chuckling while all of the gangsters look at him, confused. Doom Kid's smile disappears while looking at him.

"No," says Doom Kid. "That's impossible... no, no. I decline. I'll fucking kill you."

"You can't decline now, Doom Kid," answers Rushy. "You accepted your offer. Here you have, your rival, the Bedmaker."

"No!" shouts Doom Kid. "NO! IT CAN'T BE! I SAW HIS BODY! I SAW PLEGOVICH KILLING HIM! I... I!"

"Turns out I'm still alive," says W while unbuttoning his brown trenchcoat. "I survived, I've risen, I've already killed Petko, Minerva Plegovich and Garry... and you, Doom Kid, you are the fourth one on my list."

"NO!" says Doom Kid while drawing his gun. "NO! NO!"

"I have the ultimate offer for you, bitch!" shouts Bedmaker while taking off his trenchcoat. Then, he grabs the pills' box and opens it. "Do you still have your pills?"

Doom Kid's men start whispering between each other while one of them gets inside a cottage. Doom Kid puts the gun down again while chuckling. Then, he releases a long, long weird laugh while waiting for something. "Lucky you," says the one-armed man. "I have my pills and I haven't taken one for three days. I'm sane... that means..." Doom Kid keeps laughing. "You are taking pills, Waters?"

W only nods his head. "Yes," he says. "And as I said before, I have the ultimate offer for you. We will have our duel using our pills... if I lose, you can kill me. You can kill them," he says, pointing to Jack, Abe and Rushy. "And you can kill all of the guys who are inside the cars."

"WHAT?" whispers Adagio. "Son of a fucking bitch! I'll kill him before that one-armed dude shots him in the head!"

Twilight and Big Mac get shocked while Spike starts crying. The Bedmaker keeps talking. "And then you will call your boss Plegovich, and you will tell him you killed me... and you will be the new hero. However, if I kill you..."

The men interrupt him with plenty of laughs. Doom Kid is also laughing but shouts: "Ok! Ok! Shut up, I wanna know what this zombie douche has to say, at least..."

"If I kill you," says W. "Nobody of your men can kill me after killing you, and if one of you opens fire against me or my mates, or calls someone, even his fucking late great-grandfather, you can consider yourselves dead."

Doom Kid turns around while W grabs a couple of pills and gets it inside his jeans' right pocket. Then, he throws his trenchcoat away. Rushy, Jack and Abe look at him. "I hope you win, bitch," whispers Jack to W. "I'd hate to be murdered by such dorks."

W winks an eye to Jack and the man who went inside the cottage comes back with a bag. "What you think, men?" says Doom Kid while grabbing his pills. "Shall we grant this poor kid's wish?" The gangsters nod their heads. Some of them say "Yeah", "Go kick his ass", and "Wish you luck". Doom Kid accepted the offer and turns around, looking straight at W. "Three rounds?" he says.

"Three rounds. The first who bleeds loses. You can't win if you make a part of the body which was hurt before bleeds."

Seconds later, another gangster comes back with another box and gives it to Doom Kid. The one-armed man opens it and gets a katana out. "Oh cool!" says Sonata. "Are we going to be decapitated with a katana?"

"Shut up Sonata!" shouts Adagio.

Doom Kid grabs the katana and takes a pill. "You know," he says. "I was waiting for someone to get killed by this beautiful thing... it's very, very sharp." Then, he points at W's head with the katana and seconds later he puts it down, on the dirt. "What are you waiting for, Waters?" says Doom Kid, while taking off a jacket he had... he is now shirtless, showing his stump and its union with the arm prosthesis. It is a grey prosthesis with wooden fingers, which can be moved thanks to muscular electrodes that were implanted during an operation he had months after his accident. However, every time he takes the pills, Verminium's magic updates the electrodes, letting Doom Kid move the fake arm like a normal one although he doesn't feel pain. Meanwhile, W also takes his black t-shirt off, revealing his small chest tattoo around his neck, that says Bedmaker. His torso is dirty and smells quite bad. It is a mixture of sweat, blood and gunpowder. He gives the t-shirt to Rushy and looks at Doom Kid. The one-armed man takes a long breath and uses his prosthesis to grab the sword and touch W's chest. "Once I kill you," he says. "I'll fucking cut that tattoo of your chest and stick it in the welcome sign."

"You wish," says W. "I want your prosthesis."

"Before this duel, I want all of those guys you told me about to get down of the cars. I want them to see this."

"Sure," says W. "HEY! COME HERE! PLEASE!"

The Dazzlings are the first ones to get down. Adagio approaches W and slaps him in the face. "You stupid asshole!" she says. "Did you say we are going to die if you lose?"

"I don't know why are you worrying so much," says W. "You are immortal."

"I can live millions of years but I can die, you moron!" she shouts, strangling him. Then, she goes away with her sisters. Sonata Dusk wishes him luck while Twilight, Big Mac and Spike slowly get out of the car.

"Oh, I see," says Doom Kid. "The girls are immortal? Are they sirens?"

"Shut the fuck up, you stupid stump," says Aria, angrily. The gangsters start shouting and laughing. Doom Kid laughs too.

"Oh," shouts Doom Kid. "I see they are very kind, to be honest."

"I like the blue girl with a ponytail," says a gangster.

"Yeah, I think we'll leave someone alive."

"Yeah," says W. "To treat them like slaves, like you did with the spa employees."

Doom Kid chuckles. "Can we stop talking and start fighting? We are here, shirtless, to do only one thing." Then, Doom Kid starts playing with his katana. Jack, Abe and Rushy sit down on a corner while Big Mac and Spike lie on the car. Twilight turns around to not look at anything. The Dazzlings also sit down while Adagio is crying, lying against the car and next to Little Billy's corpse.

Doom Kid stretches his hand, but W doesn't want to shake his hand with him. They slowly move to the middle of the Main Street, like a duel in the Wild West. They stand and look at each other while taking a distance between, almost three metres. Doom Kid starts playing with his katana while W is looking at the pill.

"You know you can die if you take that pill, right? If you haven't taken that pill against Big Kahuna, you could be safe." Event appears and stands next to W, but the Bedmaker is the only one who can see him.

"Tell me," he whispers. "Will I win?" Event takes off his sunglasses but doesn't answer. "Are you going to answer my question or not?"

Event takes a breath. "I can't tell you."

"Why?"

Event bites his lips. "You know... I'm already looking for another key. You have no choice."

Another key. He was the key before. The one that retained the good future in the normal time. Now... Event, the man who knows everything, is already looking for others. What does that mean? W only looks at him, breathing, and then looks at Doom Kid, holding his sword. "Fuck you," says the Bedmaker and takes the pill. He tastes it, although it has no taste at all, and finally swallows it. He feels something cold inside his stomach. Then, shivers down his whole body. His arms and legs are shaking and his nose starts bleeding. He starts feeling dizzy, and everything is turning upside down for him. He coughs and spits blood, which falls and touches the cold dirt below him. Doom Kid, his rival, the one-armed man, smiles.

"It seems someone can't retain the magic," whispers Doom Kid, before hitting the ground with his prosthesis once, creating a big deep hole with just his wooden knuckles. The gangsters start cheering for Doom Kid while Jack, Abe and Rushy looking at the spectacle.

"This kid's going to lose," whispers Rushy. "And we're going to watch him die."

"Yeah, before our deaths," says Abe. Then, the two men look at Jack, who is taking his grey t-shirt off, revealing his blue-skinned torso. "What are you doing?"

"Hugging the old t-shirt which Susan gave to me," he answers. "I'm finally going to see her in heaven, along with my father."

"Or hell," says Rushy. "Remember, gangsters always go to hell."

The Dazzlings are crying. Twilight, Big Mac and Spike are hugging each other although she is trying not to look at the fight. W, meanwhile, is trying to calm himself down and gain consciousness while singing to himself a song of his childhood: The Unforgiven by Metallica. He thinks now that song was made for him all this time. Nose bleeding. Mouth bleeding. Eyes almost wide shut. W looks like an undead man but he is trying his best to resist.

"Are you sure you want to fight?" says Doom Kid, chuckling.

W cleans his nose and mouth. "Fuck yeah," he whispers and Doom Kid starts dancing with his katana, approaching W. However, Doom Kid throws the katana in the air and W holds it with his telekinesis. Then, he stabs it in the dirt. "If you are going to fight... don't cheat."

Doom Kid stays surprised while looking at his katana stabbed in the ground. "Oh... telekinesis?" says Doom Kid. "Remember... I do have super-force. I can kill you with just a finger."

"Don't cheat," keeps saying W while trying not to fall to the floor. His yellow skin shines because of sweat and his fingers are slowly getting wrinkled, but he is still there, standing. The one-armed man runs to him, but W throws himself against him and his back hits Doom Kid's chest. He falls to the floor with no air while Doom Kid coughs once and isn't damaged.

"Shit," says Doom Kid. "I've got admit I've got wetter than hurt. Your skin is covered with sweat. Everywhere."

"Fuck... fuck you," whispers W. Doom Kid grabs W by the neck and throws him away. The gangsters are cheering and laughing at W, who ends up inside one of the gangsters' car, breaking a window and getting inside of it.

"Hey! That was my car!" shouts one. Doom Kid looks at the katana. He's about to grab it, but then, he chuckles and walks away. W is in the car, almost dead. His back is bleeding because of the glass shatters. He turns to the right and finds out something. His grandfather Wilbur is on the driver's seat. He's raving.

"You know?" says Wilbur. "These fucking cars suck. All these new models suck, grandson. The best car I had in my life was an Equestrian Model: Shadowbolt 300. 1984 Edition. Oh, gosh... such a beautiful car! It was perfect... the inside, the outside, the engine... holy crap! I missed that bitch! I also can't forget my 1957 Sunliner, but you know what other thing came out in 1984? Ride the Lightning, my son. Ride the Fucking Lightning! Huh?" Wilbur turns around and looks at his grandson, with his back bleeding, raving and drooling. "Oh, boy... that pill's killing you, right? Well... you took a bad decision, yes, but don't worry, I know you can do it... you won't die... the end isn't here yet, boy."

The end. Wilbur's phrase reminds W of one of Metallica's songs in Ride the Lightning, Fade to Black. He starts singing to himself again, this time, Fade to Black's lyrics. However, he hears someone opening the car's door and getting him out of there. His face hits and lies against the dirt and Doom Kid looks at his red back. "He's bleeding," he says. "I won the first round."

The gangsters cheer for Doom Kid again, some of them are applauding him. However, there are still two rounds left. A gangster says that if the remaining rounds are necessary. Doom Kid replies: "Yes, I wanna break this son of a bitch in half before killing him."

Doom Kid throws W away again, this time he ends up next to a destroyed cottage. He slowly opens his eyes filled with tears and looks at someone sitting inside the broken cottage: Ron.

"W," says Ron, with his characteristic tone. "Look at that bottle next to you. It's nice. You can use it."

The Bedmaker only looks at the bottle, which is next to his head. Green bottle made of glass. "I... I'm almost dead, Ron..." he whispers.

"Come on," says Ron. "You told me I shouldn't give up, and now you give up?"

"I've got to agree with Ron this time, Waltie," says a girly voice. Suddenly, Trixie appears next to Ron. "Trixie has to admit this guy is kinda weird but he's right... you shouldn't give up, tricky!"

"Hey, Trixie," says Ron. "Only because I have an eye patch doesn't mean I am weird."

Nevertheless, Doom Kid passes by between W and the illusions and both Ron and Trixie disappear. He kicks the bottle away and steps on W's back, which still has glass shatters. W wants to shout but he can't... his throat, tongue and vocal cords are too tired to do it. "Ok," says Doom Kid. "I still didn't make you bleed, unless the back. I wanna go for the chest."

Doom Kid grabs W by his neck again. The Bedmaker takes a look at the bottle. It's not far away from him, once Doom Kid helps him to stand up, he punches his face. The one-armed man punches him back, on his nose, although he didn't use his super-force. That's the moment when the fight stops being so biased. Doom Kid punches W on the stomach with a little bit more of his power and the Bedmaker falls to the floor with no air again. He looks at his right: the bottle is near him. He slowly stretches his hand... and the bottle slowly, slowly moves. It approaches him. However, Doom Kid steps on his hand, making him stop his telekinesis. Meanwhile, Rushy stands up and shouts: "COME ON, BOY! YOU CAN DO IT!"

The gangsters laugh at him. Jack and Abe raise their eyebrows. However, Spike, who was lying against the car with Twilight and Big Mac, does the same thing: "COME ON!"

"See?" says Wilbur, who appears again in W's rave, this time in front of him, being sat on the ground. "They are cheering for you, son. You shouldn't give up."

Doom Kid moves W and steps on his back again. However, the Bedmaker slowly gets up and Doom Kid starts kicking his back, making it bleed again. He still hasn't won the second round, because the back was already hurt before. W hits Doom Kid's ankle with his elbow and slowly gets up to go for the bottle. He stretches his hand again, and the bottle is slowly going to him, while he kneels. Jack, Abe and Rushy start looking at him and they slowly make a smile which is interrupted by Doom Kid, who kicks W in the back and he falls to the floor. Then, the one-armed man finds out the plan. "Oh," he says. "You were looking for that bottle? I'll take it for you." Doom Kid grabs the bottle after stepping on W's back a few times. He is about to smash it in W's head, but when he is about to grab him, he unexpectedly jumps onto him and strangles his neck. The Dazzlings who were lying next to Little Billy's corpse, get up. Twilight takes a look for the first time and Spike starts barking and shaking his small tail. Jack, Abe and Rushy laugh while the gangsters are in silence. However, Doom Kid punches W again in the stomach, making him throw up blood. He lies in the floor again, coughing. He takes a look at his skin covered with sweat. It's beige, instead of his characteristic yellow. He's getting pale and cold. Doom Kid gets up and cleans his face stained with W's blood, and tries to grab the bottle he threw away, but suddenly W grabs it again, with its telekinesis. Spike keeps barking while W tries to get up with the bottle.

The one-armed man gets sick of all this and makes a hole just by making a step on the dirt. He's using his super-force now. However, W gets up, this time a little bit faster and goes for Doom Kid. Both of them crash their bodies and Doom Kid starts strangling W again, this time stronger, but W uses the bottle and, with all his remaining force, crashes it into Doom Kid's right arm's bone radius, breaking it in pieces. "AARGH!" shouts the one-armed man, letting W go. Doom Kid, then, looks at his right arm, which is bleeding. W wins the second round.

Jack, Abe and Rushy get up and hug each other. "FUCK YEAH!" they shout. The Dazzlings look at the scenario and Sonata starts clapping and cheering. Aria looks at Adagio and says: "You think it is worth cheering?"

"Not yet, Aria," says Adagio. "We still have the third round."

Big Mac and Adagio take their first breath of relief while Spike keeps barking. Twilight turns around again. Finally, the third and last round has just started. Doom Kid looks at the katana and tries to get it out of the dirt, but W, who is lying on the floor again, looks at something else: Doom Kid's prosthesis. He looks at it for a while and starts chuckling then: "W, you... are... a fucking... genius."

"You broke that bottle in my arm?" shouts Doom Kid, grabbing the katana. "Huh? You will see now." The one-armed man easily gets the katana out with his force, but now W is focused on another thing. He slowly stretches his left hand in a desperate try to do something. "What the hell are you doing?" says Doom Kid, and seconds later, he feels his prosthesis is moving by his own. He is slowly losing his secret power, his secret union between the nerves and the prosthesis is slowly going away. "NO!" he shouts while trying to hold its prosthesis in the right place but W, after raving and drooling again, breaks the prosthesis in half and the broken part goes to him. He gets up and has now a piece of hardwood (with metal inside) which has five wooden fingers. "YOU SON OF A BITCH!" shouts the one-armed man with half an arm prosthesis. He tries to go for him but W hits his face with the prosthesis. Jack, Abe and Rushy chuckle and hug each other again, while Sonata and Spike keep cheering. Adagio, Aria, Twilight and Big Mac are only lying on the dirt, begging not to be murdered. Doom Kid touches his face and realizes W has just broken his nose with his prosthesis. He has lost. His nose is bleeding. W won. However, before turning around and showing his face, he says: "Wait."

W kneels while holding the prosthesis. "What?" he says.

"I wanna change the rules," he says. "The third round is won if you kill the other guy."

W laughs. "You say that because you are bleeding, right?"

Doom Kid shows his face. His nose is broken. "Yeah," he replies while still holding the katana. "You die, you lose. You survive, you win."

"Don't do it, W!" shouts Abe. "Don't!"

"Shut up, Abe-O!" shouts Rushy. "Let him decide!"

"Are you kidding me?" says Abe. "He has already won! Why would he accept that?"

W listens to every one of them telling him not to accept Doom Kid's offer. The Dazzlings, Jack and Abe, Spike, Big Mac and even Twilight Sparkle. However, he says: "Sure."

"NO!" shouts Jack. "My God, this kid is dumb as fuck! I don't wanna die!"

"Didn't you want to see your father and Susan?" says Abe, and then Jack puts on his t-shirt.

"I reconsidered it," he answers. Twilight lies on the floor again, begging not to die, along with Big Mac. Spike enters the car and hides there, and the Dazzlings start crying again, except for Sonata who is still cheering for W. Then, W and Doom Kid crash again and W slowly dodges Doom Kid's katana slices. One. Two. Three. On the fourth one, W gets a small smooth cut in his right arm but doesn't give up, although he is covered with sweat, blood and dirt. He is also pale and feels dizzy and cold, but no, no, he's not going to give up. Of course not, he is the Bedmaker after all. Seconds later, W gets his opportunity and smashes the prosthesis on his face, breaking a small part of it.

Doom Kid falls to the floor with his face dyed in red colour. W runs to him and kneels in front of him, grabbing his chest. He starts playing with the prosthesis until he smashes it on Doom Kid's face. One. Two. Three... Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight! Eight! EIGHT! Eight times until he throws it away and starts strangling him! Everyone is on their nerves now. They can't see the battle now, because the duel is not so biased as before and nobody knows who is gonna win. Nobody... except Event.

Doom Kid is still conscious and slowly grabs the katana while cleaning his face. He has now his nose broken, some teeth on the floor along with blood coming off his mouth and both of his eyes have bruises. He is dizzy, but not so much as W. He grabs the katana while W gets up at the same time. The Bedmaker, which was almost dead minutes ago, has recovered a little bit of energy. He is getting up faster but he is still pale and sweating. He tries to stretch his hand but coughs again, throwing up blood for the second time. He recovers fastly and tries to kick Doom Kid's face, but the man's katana makes a deep cut in W's chest, leaving him with no air. He grabs his chest, which starts bleeding, and falls to the floor coughing. The gangsters laugh again after a long minute of silence.

"I told you," says Doom Kid, leaving his katana on the dirt. "I was going for that tattoo."

W's chest and back hurt for real. He wants all of this to stop, and he is trying to accept this is over. He coughs again while his mouth is leaking blood but then, out of nowhere... he starts raving again. His brother, William Waters, who died a year ago because of Pietro Plegovich, is in front of him. "Hey! Long time no see, brother."

"What?" he whispers. "William?"

"Yeah! It's me!" he says, smiling. "Oh, what do I see behind you? Looks like Doom Kid left his katana behind your feet! You know what you can do!"

"I can't..." says W. "My whole... body hurts."

"At least try it," he says, chuckling. "Don't be stupid."

Suddenly, Doom Kid gets in front of William's shadow and puts his dirty boot on W's head, stepping on it. "I'll just... make you suffer a little bit more of time, and then I'll kill you, kill all these douches around me with the help of my friends, and then I'll call Plegovich, telling him that I killed you. What you think?"

Doom Kid now looks at W, taking the boot out of his head and letting him talk. "I lost, yeah..." he says, smiling. "But I think... you shouldn't..."

"Shouldn't what?"

W slowly moves his head and looks at Doom Kid, breathing. "You shouldn't leave... a weapon on dirt... when you have a rival with telekinesis." W fastly grabs the katana with his telekinesis and Doom Kid starts kicking his head. However, W punches Doom Kid's ankle again, fastly gets up and points at Doom Kid with the katana. Jack, Abe, Rushy and the other guys recover their hope. Rushy and Jack laugh while Abe and Sonata start cheering for him. Doom Kid makes a hole again with his foot thanks to his super-force and runs to him but W stabs the katana right in his chest. Jack, Abe and Rushy jump with joy, celebrating. The Dazzlings too. Big Mac and Spike hug while Twilight, who didn't want to see this whole battle, looks at the spectacle for the second time and, even if she doesn't want it because someone is getting murdered, she takes a long breath and calms herself down because now she knows she is not going to die there. "Bad choice you made there, dude," says W to Doom Kid and then he gets the katana out of his chest. Doom Kid kneels on the dirt while holding his chest, coughing. W, which is still sweating, bleeding and dizzy, slowly moves the katana, touching Doom Kid's neck, and prepares himself for the final lap. "Now, the final move..." he says. "AAHHH!" He shouts and fastly moves the katana over Doom Kid's neck. Seconds later, the one-armed man stops holding his chest with his right arm, and a line of blood appears on his neck. Then his head falls to the dirt, behind his body.

DOOM KID

W falls to the floor again while still holding the katana. Jack, Abe and Rushy celebrate while grabbing W and hugging him. The gangsters are now in silence while looking at his late leader's head on the dirt, bleeding and soulless. W, however, approach them while still holding the katana. He has, for the first time, a rush of emotions... adrenaline, anger, sadness, joy, resentment, suffering, fun and revenge. He throws up blood while looking at the whole group of gangsters and starts gasping while all of them throw their guns away. They lost, they accepted the duel, and now they must suffer the consequences. Some of them stand up, while others keep sitting on the ground. W looks at all of them while having his rush of emotions and points at one of them with the katana.

"On your knees, bitches," he says.

"What?" says one of the gangsters. "Please, no... we won't."

"On your knees, bitches," he says again, trying to calm himself down but at the same time trying to let the anger go. His rush of emotions is slowly making him lose his mind. The gangsters kneel in front of W while he is only stretching his hands to the air, holding the katana.

"W," says Jack. "What the fuck are you doing?"

"Let... me... be," he answers. One of the gangsters draw a gun and shoot at him, but W's telekinesis stops the bullet and turns it around, launching it at him and killing him. The gangsters are now frightened while kneeling. "Now," he says. "Someone give me a phone who has Plegovich's phone number."

Seconds later, someone gives him a phone. W grabs it, then he goes for Doom Kid's head only to put it in the ground in front of the gangsters and stabs the katana on his face, sticking the head to the ground. He takes a picture of the head and sends it to Plegovich. Finally, he politely asks everyone to stand up. "Repeat with me," he says, while everyone behind him is observing. "You... you can go, but before... give me your phones."

The gangsters slowly go away after giving W their phones, scared, while looking at Doom Kid's corpse... except one of them, which didn't even have a phone. A big, fat, bald guy raises his thumb to W. "Good job, man. I also hated him. He was a douchebag..."

"Hey..." says Rushy. "Aren't you that dude whose nickname was related with his fingers?"

The guy smiles. "Yes! My name is Fritos."

"Fritos? That is a snack, not a name," says Jack. "Come on, get out of here."

"Oh, but I like to be called Fritos or Frith," says the three-finger gangster. "It's like Gordon Summer... and Sting."

Frith's example makes Jack and Abe chuckle, and then he goes away before greeting everyone. The gangsters left, Doom Kid is dead. However, W is still not feeling OK. The Dazzlings and Twilight, Big Mac and Spike approach him.

"Well," says Jack. "Luckily we survived but... why in the hell did you do that, W?"

W is still under the weather because of its rush of emotions and feelings. He looks at Jack while his whole bleeding body is shaking. He tries to answer that question but he can't. Suddenly he can't talk, breath, anything. He has a blackout and falls to the floor. He closes his eyes and wakes up in a black room... in front of Event.

"What?" says W, his skin is now yellow instead of beige... and he feels completely well. "Now I feel..."

"Better?" says Event, looking at him. "You're experiencing something called Rush of Emotions, Bedmaker. The magic that is living inside your body is gaining control over your nerves and feelings, making you feel so many things at the same time, something that can kill you if is too late to control it."

"And I'm going to die because of that?" he says.

"No," says Event. "You will get better in a couple of minutes. Just don't take another pill. Don't be stupid. This time you survived for just... a little."

"Yeah," says W, and then he approaches Event. "And... did you know I was going to win?"

"Yes," he answers. "But the only way you could have won that battle... was making you believe you will lose... and you told yourself you couldn't lose, and that's why you started..."

"Raving?" interrupts W.

"Uh-huh," says Event, smiling. "Images of dead people desperately appeared on your mind from you to help yourself... and it worked, it was good. You remembered old times, childhood... with the Fade to Black thing. And now, I'm going to tell you two things but before, congratulations on getting rid of Doom Kid."

"Yeah... not necessary to flatter me but well..." says W. "And who's next?"

"That's what I was going to tell you, but..."

"But?"

"You need to do some things before. Three."

"Three things?"

"Yes. Firstly, you will go to the car with the broken window where you cut your whole back with the glass shatters and you will open its trunk using the key that it's inside. Inside that trunk, you will find Little Bird's egg. Plegovich planned a secret thing with it... he was trying to make a Little Bird his guard and main pet of his government. He was going to call him... Public Property Utopia Montreal Jr."

"Wow," says W, unsurprised. "That's the first one?"

"Yes. Secondly, you will tell the Dazzlings to carry it to the pony Equestria."

W laughs. "Are you kidding me? The Dazzlings? I told them they were going to help me bring Plegovich down. Now I've got to take them out of the way?"

"Yes. You can't put Jack, Abe or Rushy because the three of them will be essential for you, and you can't also take Twilight Sparkle, Spike or Big Macintosh because they have no idea about how are things in the horse world and believe me, they are now bad. Besides, if you let the sirens go back to the ponified Equestria, I'll help them go to Baltimare where pony Seductive lives, and with that, the battle against Glow, Tirek and Chrysalis will be easier."

"Which battle?" says W.

"Nothing necessary for you to know," answers Event. "If they don't want to follow your orders, tell them they will have another opportunity to go back, start a new life and find pony Seductive on Baltimare. Now, the third thing of all... your next objective is a man called Howlman."

"Howlman?" says W. "I don't remember that name on the list Discord told me."

"It is not in the list because you don't have to kill him," says Event, and then he turns around. "Someone else has to kill him."

"Who?"

"Your partner Jack Tyler."

W raises his eyebrows. "Jack? Um... why?"

"That man killed his father, Edinburgh Tyler. If he kills Howlman, his revenge will be satisfied and Plegovich's control over Canterlot will be weaker. You kill two birds with one bullet, Bedmaker. Now, talking about you... your next objective is Grigori Kobolov, but first, get rid of Howlman. Now, you will tell Jack that Howlman's on Canterlot, and if he asks you why, answer him that Doom Kid told you that while strangling you."

W wants to answer Event, but he immediately wakes up in La Lima, being surrounded by everyone. His skin is beige, he feels cold and weak, his chest has a long deep cut and his back is still bleeding. "W," says Jack. "Oh, my god... I thought you were dead." W's rush of emotions is slowly going away, making him a lot calmer. He starts gasping while looking at Jack.

"Jack," says W. "Jack..."

"What, W?" he says. "I'm here."

"...Howlman is in Canterlot."

Jack's face shakes a little bit. Abe looks at him, surprised. The other ones don't know who is that Howlman. "And... and... what? And how do you know Howlman is in Canterlot?"

"Doom Kid told me. He's there right now... we have to stop him."

"Oh my god!" shouts Aria. "And now we are going to Canterlot? Gosh! Can we take a rest, at least? One?"

W fastly gets up while his back and chest are still bleeding. His whole body is shaking but he doesn't care. "You three..." he says while pointing at the Dazzlings with his finger. "You three will take your rest now. Ey, Big Mac... carry me to the car with the broken window."

"Why?" says Big Mac, raising an eyebrow.

"Just do it."

"Sure," says Big Mac, and then he grabs W and carries him to the car. He tells Big Mac to grab the car keys which are inside and open the trunk. Once he opens the trunk, he looks at a big orange egg lying inside. "Wow..." he says. "There is a... a big, huge, giant egg."

"Biggie," says W. "Can I call you Biggie? Like Biggie Smalls."

"Eeyup," answers Big Mac.

"Carry that egg first and give it to Adagio, then carry me," he says while lying on the floor.
Jack approaches the almost dead W. "What the hell are you doing?" he says. "You are almost dead, we should carry to a hospital."

"Yeah," whispers W. "The fugitive that everyone is looking for... in a hospital. Twilight... Twilight!"

Twilight Sparkle approaches W now. "What?" she says, while Big Mac is carrying the egg.

"You are clever, right?"

"Umm... why?" she says. "What do you want to do?"

"Answer my question," he says while trying to get up. "Are you clever?"

"Yes," she answers.

"Wanna find your friends?"

"Yes."

"Do you know about medicine?"

"Um... not much, but yes."

"Touch my hand, then. Tell me how cold am I. I'm freaking frozen."

Twilight touches W's hand and she gets scared. His hand... feels like ice. He must be dead by now because this temperature cannot be in a normal person. "You... you... this temperature is so low... you can be already dead."

W laughs. "Great, I'm breaking the laws of medicine."

"We need to take you to a hospital or something... we will get you in with a fake identity, maybe."

"Yeah, whatever," says W. "Biggie! Take me to the Dazzlings!"

Big Mac appears, grabs W with his arms again and carries him to the Dazzlings. "Gosh," says Adagio. "Why are you giving me this egg, Gollum?"

"Girls," says W, laughing. "You have to do one more task, the final one."

"What?" says Aria, confused.

"Take that egg to Equestria... the ponified Equestria, and give it to its mother, a 24-feet brown bird with a scar on his left-wing."

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" says Aria. "You told me we were going to bring Plegovich down together! To-ge-ther!"

"I know, I know," says W. "But you are the only ones who can do that task. I need Jack, Abe and Rushy, and Biggie, Twilight and Spike have no idea where is this bird or where they will be when they enter the other side. The three of you are the only ones."

"Great," says Adagio. "But you know Star Swirl the Bearded expelled us from there a thousand years ago?"

"No," says W. "But if you go and give back that egg, you will free Ponyville from a threat, and the princesses will thank you. Come on, girls, ponified Equestria is the most peaceful shit I've ever seen in my entire life."

"But..." says Adagio. "How do you know all of this? The egg... that we are the only ones who can carry it back...?"

"That... doesn't matter," says W, feeling dizzy. "You have to carry that egg back."

"And then what?" says Adagio. "Are we going to come back?"

"Um... no."

"But..." says Adagio, touching W's face. "But you told us we were going to avenge our mother!"

W sighs and looks at Big Mac. "Hey, Ryan Gosling, can you let me down for a second?"

Big Mac chuckles. "Eeyup," he says and lets W lie on the floor, looking at the Dazzlings.

"Girls," says W, while looking at them. "I know I promised you that, but sadly you are the only ones who can go there to bring that egg back to its mother. Besides, didn't you want... your entire life to go back to Equestria?"

The three Dazzlings look at each other. "Um..." says Adagio. "Yes, but we are here to avenge our mother now. We helped you to kill that lime-skinned man at Saik City... and even our adoptive mother helped you and gave her life for what you told her!"

"I know, I know!" shouts W. "I know this is bad. I know it's my fault... and I will always apologize because I admit it... she died in the place I told her to go, but at least you have your pendants back, you know?" The three Dazzlings look at each other. "And now I have to do what I have to do..."

"What?" says Aria. "Die? Your physical state is even worrying us."

"No, I won't die, although my physical state is horrifying," says W. "Um... I want to make a deal with you."

"Ugh," says Adagio, growling. "Typical gangster."

"Listen to me," says W. "Your adoptive mother's death is my fault, you are right. You are completely right... and yes, I also told you to go with me to Saik and here now, but... I want to make this deal. You go there to give back that egg and stay... and I will take your adoptive mother's death as a punishment... something I have to make for you... I promise to you... I will avenge your mother for you. I will kill Plegovich for you three and Seductive. You don't have to do anything."

The three Dazzlings look at each other again. Meanwhile, Spike appears and starts licking W's face.

"Oh gosh," says the dog, scared. "Your skin is colder than ice."

W chuckles. "Yeah, your owner Twi was scared of my body temperature."

"But man..." says Spike. "We need to heat you in an oven to recover your normal temperature."

W laughs out loud before ending up in a burst of coughs. His chest is not bleeding anymore but still hurts a lot. His back is still bleeding. His skin's beige colour is fading to white while looking at the Dazzlings. He has lost so much blood. Jack, Abe and Rushy are talking about leaving W in a hospital and then doing the job for him. They will kill Plegovich for him. Twilight is trying to calm herself down and then Big Mac sits next to her.

"Big Mac," she says. "How could we sleep after this whole odyssey?"

He chuckles while looking at his arms and his grey hoodie they gave to him in Saik City. It has small drops of W's blood. "I... have no idea," he answers. "But I will get through everything to save my sister and to bring back the peaceful life we were living before."

Twilight takes a breath and nods her head. "I don't know where are my friends... and I'm more than worried because of them."

"See?" says Big Mac. "When I look at these unusual things that have been happening... I admit that looking at lots of dead men and someone being stabbed with a sword and being decapitated is something traumatic, disgusting, horrifying but... I told ya before. These folks, you know, are getting rid of the men who have my sister and y'all friends locked up in wherever they are. I just think... Despite that W folk's cruel as hell and even took a photo of a severed head being stabbed with a katana in front of me... that guy, along with the sirens and the other three dudes, are the only ones who took me away and, even if they don't know, are helping me to find the answer of that question which has invaded my mind for months: where are my sisters and Granny Smith?"

Twilight gets shocked while listening to Big Mac's words. Seconds later, she gets up and slowly approaches Abe, Jack and Rushy... who are looking at W and figure out what to do. Jack is still shocked about what W told him...

"Howlman is in Canterlot."

His father's murderer. The guy that tried to look for so many years... It's there. He told him but... how does he know he is there? He told him Doom Kid said that, but is he sure? He has lost so much blood he may be raving by now.

"Um," says Twilight, while looking at the three men. "Excuse me, Rarity's grandpa... can I talk to you for a moment?"

Jack and Rushy look at each other, confused. "What happened, Twilight?" says Abe, surprised. "What's the matter?"

"Since I've been freed by W inside Saik City several things have happened to me. I looked at this horrifying spectacle for a while, I saw W taking a photo of a severed head like if it was street art and... and..."

Abe touches Twilight's shoulders. "Don't worry. Everything is going to be fine."

"I'm... I'm not sure if everything's going to be fine!" says Twilight, crying. "I've killed someone, Mr Flanks... don't you realize I killed someone?"

"First time?" says Rushy. "I understand. It's hard to get through."

"Rushy!" shouts Abe. "Look, Twi... what happened with that?"

"Yes," also says Jack, trying to calm her down. "What happened?"

"I was..." she says. "I had so many things... thoughts in my mind that I couldn't control myself... and ended up breaking one of my kidnappers' neck with my magic. And I... I feel so guilty."

Abe hugs Twilight. "No, dear," he says. "I know it's hard for you, but calm down, you did it because you had so much trouble in your mind, girl. You were alone, isolated from your world, from your friends, from your school... in a land of nowhere with the worst men of all... it's much more than understandable."

"I agree," says Jack. Then he turns around to look at W talking with Spike about life. The Dazzlings finally conclude.

"And..." she says while hugging Abe. "Why are you getting rid of these men? For cruelty?"

"What?" says Abe. "Of course not, dear. We are not killing them because we are cruel, Twilight. We are killing them to save everyone's life, girl. Sadly, this is the only way we can save Rarity and your friends. I know this method is not the best for you but... if we don't get rid of them, they will get rid of us."

"But, that is not a fight..." she says. "That's..."

"War," says Abe. "Yup, like W said back in Saik City... we are in a gang war, sunshine. You are in a gang war. We are getting rid of these men before they get rid of us, Rarity, anyone else... including you."

"Um... that's not my case," says Rushy, approaching Abe. "I'm getting rid of these men for revenge."

Abe looks at Rushy, angry. "In a way, you are doing this to don't be killed by them."

Rushy raises his eyebrows. "Well, yeah. You are right in that, but..."

"Don't screw it up," says Abe to Rushy. The ushanka man softly nods his head and goes with W, who is waiting for the Dazzlings' conclusion.

"So, boy?" says Rushy. "In the beginning, I've got to admit I didn't have faith in you, but once you beat that dude up, I knew you were the head of that duel."

W and Rushy laugh out loud while Spike doesn't laugh because of how dark is that joke. Jack chuckles a bit. "So," says Adagio, interrupting the laughs. "We came up to a conclusion."

"So?" says W. Adagio kneels and looks at W.

"We will go there and stay, but remember... you promised you would avenge your adoptive mother and us by killing Plegovich. If you fail, believe in my word... we'll kill you before Plegovich kills you."

"Sure," says W while raising his thumb. "If I fail, you will kill me."

"And after all," says Adagio. "Your actions would never give us our adoptive mother back, even if she was her counterpart."

"Actually," says W. "There's a pony counterpart of her in Baltimare."

The three Dazzlings get surprised, and Adagio gets W up. "What?" he says.

W falls again but Jack grabs him on time. "There's a pony counterpart of her in Baltimare City."

"And how do you know that?" she says. "I hope you are not mocking us, because you'll pay hard."

"No," says W. "There's a pony counterpart of Seductive in Baltimare, trust me."

Adagio looks at Aria now. She raises her shoulders while looking at Sonata. Adagio takes a breath. "Uh... OK," says Adagio. "But if you are lying..."

"I'm not lying!" shouts W, and then he coughs.

"Um... I have a question," says Sonata.

"Shut up, Sonata," says Aria, and the pony-tail dazzling gets mad at her.

"Oh, don't interrupt me! Please let me talk!" shouts Sonata Dusk. "Um... you said we have to go there."

"Yes," answers W.

"So... how are we going to go there?"

W wants to talk but can't answer that question. Suddenly, Event appears on his mind, pointing to a yellow car that it's inside a cottage. "Tell Big Mac to carry you to the yellow car and open the trunk which is already unlocked. You will find there Wilbur's toilet." The Bedmaker nods his head and points at the yellow car.

"Biggie!" says W. "Take me to the yellow car."

Big Mac, who was lying on the ground, gets up and looks at the yellow car. He grabs W, takes it to the car and opens the trunk... there is a toilet there. W smiles while looking at it.

"There's a toilet," says Big Mac. "A pretty dirty toilet."

"That toilet..." says W. "Grab it and take it to the Dazzlings."

"WHAT?" says Adagio. "What are you trying to do with that toilet?"

"That toilet..." says W. "...is the portal."

"Woah, Woah, Woah," says Adagio, approaching him and Big Mac. "Are you saying that you have to enter that toilet to go to Equestria?"

"Yup," says W, while lying against the car's trunk.

"Are... are you fucking kidding me?"

"No."

Big Mac puts the toilet next to Adagio. It doesn't have a stinky or horrifying smell but is completely covered with dirt. However, Adagio finds something that is not normal. The toilet has water. How can that have water if it is not connected to any pipe? Besides, it has a small button on its right side, and she decides to press it. The water flushes but never leaks, and seconds later it turns into something purple that gets expanded, creating a round portal inside the toilet. "Oh," she says. "It looks like... ugh, why is this portal in a toilet?"

"No idea," says W. "My grandfather had that toilet."

The Dazzlings approach the toilet. "Do I have to enter there?" says Aria.

"We have no choice, Aria," says Sonata. "Come on, I'll be the first one... but first, I need to say goodbye... goodbye everyone! and also," she says, and then she hugs Adagio. "Goodbye, beloved tacos from the human world, I wish I could find you there, Mr Taco Bell!"

Sonata is about to enter but is pushed away by Aria. "Bye," she says. "And if I get dirty while travelling through this portal, I'll go back to kick your ass, Bedmaker."

"I'll miss you too, Aria," answers W, and then she enters. Adagio takes another breath and stretches her hand. She gets W up again and he sits on the trunk. Both of them shake their hands and she says:

"I hope you are not lying, Bedmaker. You promised to avenge my mother," she says and then she grabs the egg which was next to Spike. "Good luck," she says, and then she enters the portal with the egg. Sonata is the last one to leave because she is handshaking everyone until he arrives at W.

"Bye, Sonata," he says, stretching his hand. She shakes hands with him but a second later she crashes her face with him and kisses him on the lips. "Mmmm!" Only to release him after. "Woah, Woah, Woah... what the hell, Sonata?"

"Um... what?"

"Why did you kiss me?"

"Oh," she says. "That's my way of wishing you luck, Mr Bedmaker! Goodbye!" She then jumps and gets in the toilet, which now closes itself and breaks in half.

"Well," says Rushy. "That was... certainly unexpected."