The Peacemaker

Dmitry:

“Alright Dmitry, you can change back now” Rocks said as he made sure that the last soldier was gone. I gasped in exhaustion and all my magic creations disappeared, the slave workers, the portrait and even my fake body from. ‘God that felt weird’ I thought to myself as my old body form finally returned. “Wow, Dmitry you were able to create all that?” Dash asked and I nodded.

“Alright, score. We’re in the clear now” Dash said with a bout of confidence. Rocks nodded and walked away, soon after he left, Pinkie Pie came zipping through the door. “Did I miss it, oh please tell me I didn’t miss it” Pinkie said frantically. Twilight put a hoof on her erratically jumping friend.

“Sorry Pinkie… they already left” Twilight told her and her face went to a frown. “Aw shucks… oh well, hey Dash wanna play?” Pinkie said and Dash looked to me. “Wanna tag along?” Dash asked and I nodded, it felt like a terrible time but I was going to have to tell her soon and I feared that it may break her heart to hear it.

“Well I gotta go back to the library, figures they never even offered me a ride” Twilight replied and chuckled as she left.

Pinkie, Dash and I all walked outside onto the rock fields and looked around, it was kind of dull and gloomy. “Man… this place...” I trailed off and my memories were flooded with the day I killed Rainbow Dash’s parents. Pinkie Pie zipped along “Hid and seek” see squealed and zipped away, leaving a puff of dust to cloud mine and Dash’s view.

“Let’s go get her” Dash said and was about to dash off after her when I grabbed her by the shoulder. “Wait Dash… there’s something I have to tell you but I don’t know how you’ll take it” I began and she simply laughed. “Hey, don’t be getting all emotional on me now, I might like you as a friend but… well that’s just weird” Dash laughed, taking my advance in the complete wrong direction.

“No Dash… you have to hear it from me before anyone else” I told her as my eyes began to tear up. Rainbow Dash sighed “Alright… fine, but don’t feel bad when I say no” Dash laughed, still thinking I was going to say something sappy like ‘I love you’ or ‘Will you marry me’, I almost wish that’s what I was going to tell her.

“Dash… I don’t know how to say this so I’ll tell it to you straight… I killed your parents” I said and her face turned into a humorless face. “That isn’t funny” she said, obviously thinking it was some sort of crude joke. “Dash I am serious… twenty years ago I was a mercenary, paid to kill whoever my job made me kill and my final and only mission was to kill two targets, Wildhorse and Rose Pedal… I killed your parents but when I found you I couldn’t bring myself to leave you to die so I began to leave but as I did Smith, or as she’s known today as Granny Smith, had a squad of stallions execute my friend Ivan. I killed all the stallions under her command and shot her in the hip then gave you to her and told her to raise you with a good life, knowing that I could never give you the life you deserved” I said as tears rolled down my face.

Her eyes widened in realization and she finally accepted that I was the one that killed her parents, though whether she didn’t want to believe it at first or whether she was stunned by the information I will never know but she just stood there wide eyed.

Finally she came to and her face became one of hatred and anger. “YOU FUCKING APE!” she screamed and punched me hard across the face. “GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE BEFORE I CALL THE ARMY BACK” she screamed, “Please Dash, that was twenty years ago, I have changed, please forgive me” I begged but she punched me again. “I SAID LEAVE, I HATE YOU” she screamed again and I began to run away, though I did not know to where, I would just keep running until I found a place to exile myself.

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Rainbow Dash:

He had used me, though I didn’t know exactly for what. He had used me then told me the truth like it wasn’t a big deal and just expected everything to be okay. Tears rolled down my face as I cried in anguish and fell to my knees. My parents had been killed by my only human friend I ever had and he had neglected to tell me.

“What’s wrong Rainbow Dash? Where’s Dmitry… oh yeah I forgot, hid and seek. Let’s find him” Pinkie replied as she bounced along joyfully. “He’s gone Pinkie, let him go” I sobbed angrily and she raised an eyebrow “Well that’s silly, why would we let him go. If we did then he’d win the game of hid and seek” Pinkie replied joyfully.

“Pinkie! He killed my parents, I never want to see his face again” I screamed and she stopped jumping. “HE WHAT?” she gasped and I looked up to her and stood to my hooves again. “He-killed-my-parents” I replied slowly and with anger still lingering in my voice. “Why would he do that? Wait a minute I’ve never seen your parents before” Pinkie replied and I rolled my eyes. “That’s because he killed them both when I was just a baby foal but he let me live” I scowled. “Well that was a long time ago, did he at least say sorry?” Pinkie asked and I looked to her with an angered look.

‘She’s not serious is she? Saying sorry doesn’t make up for killing my parents, no matter how long ago it was’ I thought to myself. “Pinkie it doesn’t matter how long ago it was or whether or not he said sorry, he killed my parents and I never want to see him again” I told her and she walked up and put a foreleg around my neck.

“Dashie… if he did it during the war then sure it was his fault but you can’t blame him entirely and if he’s truly sorry it would be good to hear him out” Pinkie told me and I turned away. “I’ve heard all I needed to, I don’t want to hear his apology, and I hope he dies” I scoffed and Pinkie gasped in horror. “You don’t really mean that Dashie” Pinkie gasped and I turned to her “Oh yeah I do, I pray to Celestia that he dies, I hope he dies real soon for what he did” I yelled, my anger and hate for him was still raging out of control.

“Dashie… if you wanted him dead so bad than how does that make you any better than him, what if he had children and you ruined their lives” Pinkie replied and I scoffed. “Well he’d deserve it, he killed first” I replied and she shook her head and looked me right in the eyes. “No Dashie, he didn’t kill first, we will never know who killed first but we can only be the ones who don’t kill last” she told me and my heart sank as I realized what she was saying.

“Oh no… what have I done” I said as my anger faded and I thought about my last words to Dmitry, I didn’t want those to be the last ones. “I know you may be angry Dash, but try and think of all the good times you had with Dmitry” she told me and it was as if my heart became sore and I wanted to cry again.

I took off but due to my injured wing I couldn’t go very fast and stayed low to the ground. “Please… I don’t want that to be the last words to Dmitry… please just give me another chance” I pleaded to myself and suddenly a motorcycle pulled up beside me. “What the hell… Pinkie where’d you get that?” I asked and she winked. “I keep a motorcycle around for motorcycle emergencies” she replied and motioned for me to hop on. “You’ll never catch up to him with your sore wing, come on” she told me and I hoped on the back of motorcycle and she raced away towards the forest where we had guessed Dmitry would be.

* * *

Dmitry:

I had stopped running a long time ago and just simply walked along the dirt path and it was as if a thundercloud was over top of me and my whole life had been darkened.

A human military truck pulled up and four men jumped out, armed with assault rifles. “Freeze cock-bag, you’ve been giving us a hell storm of problems but lucky for you the boss man doesn’t want us to kill you… so get in the truck” he ordered but I simply widened my stance. “What the hell do you think you’re…” he began but in a flash of motion I pulled out my Colt Peacemaker and fanned the hammer as I held back the trigger, .357 magnum rounds thundered through the air and tore apart their bodies, all accept one who I made sure only got a leg shot.

While the others fell lifelessly to the ground, the wounded man began to scream but I walked over and picked him up by the collar of his jacket and slammed his body into the hood of the army vehicle. “Where’s the LBH base?” I asked but he simply spat at my face. I smashed the hilt of the revolver against the side of his head. “Wrong answer so I’ll ask again, where’s the base?” I asked and he grunted and pulled out a small map and handed it to me.

I looked at the map, it had the coordinates of the LBH headquarters. “Thanks bub” I said and cocked back the trigger on the Peacemaker and emotionlessly shot him through the head.