In Guts and Glory

“Reggie?” Thunder Shot gasped and Reggie took a wobbly bow, “at your service captain” he said with a smug grin. As he got back up they looked at his missing foreleg, “oh my Celestia what happened to your foreleg?” Sweetie Bell gasped and Reggie raised his foreleg and pointed it at Masterson, “old buddy o mine is really good at amputation with his fucking scythe” Reggie announced and they looked to Masterson, now unarmed, well he did have a scythe slung around his back but if he even tried to grab it Reggie would simply shoot him dead.

“How did you survive?” Rumble asked curiously, Reggie gave a sigh “can’t I tell you later, I’m trying to hero. You know?” Reggie asked rhetorically and Masterson laughed “well in that case you’ll have to arrest me, if you truly are a hero” Masterson laughed maniacally, Reggie pointed his gun at Masterson’s head “like fuck, after what you’ve done you’d be lucky to receive a quick death, which is actually what I’m going to do” Reggie informed Masterson.

“Fine but before you do please enlighten our guests about how you survived” Masterson suggested. “Fine” Reggie sighed “so there I was, Molasses had just been killed…

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Reggie’s limb fell to the ground along with the Glock, he let out a final scream. The scream seemed to echo down the hallways. The cloaked assassin laughed as Reggie tried to backpedal but lost his balance due to his missing limb and fell to the ground. The cloaked figure stood in front of him and rolled back his hood, “Masterson” Reggie yelled, “of course” Masterson laughed as he brought up the scythe to slice Reggie to death.

As Masterson brought the scythe downwards on Reggie, Reggie rolled sideways and effectively dodged the deathly scythe. He kicked his hindleg and tripped Masterson to the ground, leaping up he jumped onto Masterson and started punching with his left hoof, Masterson simply laughed at he attempt and Reggie punched him with his stump of a limb. Pain seared through Reggie’s body and he rolled off of Masterson, gripping his pained limb.

Masterson laughed as he arose and picked up his scythe and once again went for the kill, he kicked away Reggie’s pistol and laughed. As he once again brought the scythe down upon Reggie he rolled sideways and dodged the deadly swing of the scythe. He kicked his hindleg and hit Masterson right in the groin. Masterson let out a pained howl as he fell to his knees in agony. Reggie got up and ran past Masterson and grabbed his pistol as he turned to shoot Masterson he staggered a little and Masterson took advantage of this and gave a painful charge into Reggie, pushing him back into the stairwell.

Masterson Knocked the Glock out of Reggie’s hoof and the gun fell down the stairwell to the floors below, clattering all the way but never once going off. “Let’s see how much of a badass you are without your gun” Masterson taunted and Reggie looked back to him “let’s see how much of a badass you are without your balls” he quoted and kicked Masterson, again, in the groin.

Masterson once again howled in pain and fell to his knees, Reggie gave him a spin kick to the head and Masterson doubled over. Reggie looked down the stairwell and spotted the pistol Hammerhead had given him. He ran down the flight of stairs, a constant trail of blood trailing him.

He lept down stairs until he reached the bottom floor and picked up his pistol, he looked upwards and started to feel a little woozy ‘probably from blood loss’ he thought to himself and looked down the hallway of the ground floor. He knew he needed to cauterize this wound, and fast.

He barreled through the door and raced towards the cooking class. As he reached the cooking class he heard screaming coming from another room and things crashing but it was so distant he couldn’t depict what it was. He quickly turned the stove element on and let it heat up, in less than a minute the element was glowing red hot.

Reggie looked around and started one of the sinks running with cold water and grabbed a towel along with a large wooden spoon and placed it in his mouth. He bit down hard on the spoon as he pressed the stump of his limb against the element. He let out a pained howl but it was muffled by the spoon he was biting on. He held his stumped limb on the burner for 15 seconds before the pain became unbearable and pulled his limb away from the burner, burned flesh stuck to the burner and as he pulled away some of his flesh stayed stuck to the burner and stretched out, still attached to his limb.

He again howled in pain as he pulled away and the sticking flesh ripped off and he ran to the sink and place his limb under the cold running water, it was equally as painful but not a sever to his flesh, the wound was now cauterized. He spit the spoon out into the sink and gasped in pain as he looked and spotted a medical kit.

He ran over and opened it up, he placed sterilizer packs, which stung but were mild compared to the pain he just endured. After he wrapped his limb with medical non-adhesive bandages he wrapped it with gauze and taped the gauze together. Letting out a sigh he grabbed the Glock and sat against the one shelf and let out a relieved sigh, although he still felt pain, the worst was over.

As he sat there he wondered if he’d die from perhaps and infection, but quickly subdued the fact figuring he’d probably be killed by Masterson first. As he sat there he heard screaming from the hallway and he readied his pistol but no-pony came. As he sat there, ever vigilant, Reggie decided to make amends with himself, finally he decided that instead of running away from the problem, it was time to face the problem head on even if head on meant shooting some-pony with a pistol.

Reggie stepped into the hallway and looked both direction but heard more screaming and then he heard a gunshot come from the theatre. Reggie raced towards the theatre and saw Masterson holding up the remainder of the group with a pistol of his own, Reggie took aim and shot the pistol, even though he was aiming for Masterson’s body.

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“And so that brings us to our grand finale” Reggie explained as he kept his pistol trained on Masterson, “not quite there’s still one last thing that’s been bugging me” Thunder Shot announced and Reggie gave Thunder Shot an irritated look “well what a way to ruin my awesomeness” Reggie scoffed.

Thunder Shot rolled his eyes, “Masterson explain to me, who was the other assailant?” Thunder Shot asked, Masterson laughed “what other assailant” he laughed. “Well when this all began you were with us when every-pony started dying so explain to me how that works” Thunder Shot asked. “Ah the mastermind behind the entire thing… of course, but you see I am but a henchman to the master, smart one you are” Masterson laughed out, rather loudly. “Get to the point” Reggie snarled, “why so hastily?” Masterson asked calmly. “So I know who to kill afterwards” Reggie snarled, Masterson chuckled “well I’m sorry Reggie but you won’t get to see the boss unless you put down your gun” Masterson laughed.

“Fuck you” Reggie said “I’m not falling for that one”, “what one?” Masterson asked playfully, “you damn well know which one” Reggie snarled. “Last chance to put down your gun” Masterson offered, “fuck you” Reggie snarled. Masterson let out a sigh “fine if you want to be that way” Masterson began “REAVEAL YOURSELF” Masterson yelled out and a thunderous BOOM sounded and Reggie’s head was literally taken off his shoulders.

“What the fuck” Thunder Shot yelled as he ran up to Reggie’s corpse. “Stand back” a voice echoed and the entire group looked to a lone pony as she approached the group, armed with a Smith and Wesson .500 magnum. The pony was no other than Ms. Cheerilee