The Peacemaker

“Are you insane? I’m not doing that, it’s stupid” I yelled but the man in the suit sitting across from me simply laughed. “Please Dmitry, think about what you’re saying. If you destroyed this train then it would cripple the Equestrian military’s ability to transport troops quickly” the man in the suit replied casually.

“No deal, I’ve seen that train before and it doesn’t transport military troops. It transports regular everyday ponies” I argued and he simply sighed. “Dmitry, do you really believe that any pony is actually innocent. They’re just animals… animals for Christ’s sake, don’t feel pity for them” the suit man replied.

I let out an irritated exhale, “I’m not doing it so if you would please just leave me alone. I am a free man now” I told him but he refused to listen. “Dmitry, think about this. You could be the one who changes Equestria for the better” the suit man told me but my face soon went into an angered frown. “You think that humans ruling Equestria would be a good thing? I highly doubt that” I replied. “You horse fucker” said the other man as he drew out an M9 pistol and aimed it at my head.

“Go ahead… do it, but you have to turn the safety off before you can shoot that thing” I told him and he sneered but soon his face turned into one of curiosity and he turned the gun sideways to inspect the safety.

In a flash of motion I drew my Colt single action, cocked the hammer back and pulled the trigger. The house echoed the gunshot and my ears rang as the bullet boomed out of the barrel and smashed the man’s pistol apart in his hand. The force of the bullet took the remainder of the gun and knocked it out of his hand and the pieces fell to the ground.

“You are really scrapping the bottom of the barrel to find these rookies aren’t you?” I asked the suit man and he sighed. “That’s why I came to see you. We have no professional killers and need some really good soldiers like you” the suit man replied but I stood up and pointed to the door.

“Get out” I told him and the man rose from his chair and tipped his fedora hat. “It’s been an honour Mr. Dmitry, perhaps we shall see each other soon… oh and keep an eye on the railroad because in about one hour there will be a spectacular event” the suit man informed me as he turned to leave. “Wait… what do you mean spectacular?” I asked and he stopped and turned his head so he could look at me.

“Well, you weren’t our first choice and certainly weren’t our last. We have a group of men setting up pressure plated explosives on the railroad tracks, part of a LBH sabotage you see” he informed me then turned and both he and the other man left my home.

As I heard the car leave I chuckled to myself, they wouldn’t really blow up a train full of pony civilians… would they? My stomach twisted and I got a terrible feeling in my gut as I rushed outside to look at the railroad but it was too far away to depict anything. I cursed to myself and ran back inside to look for something to help me see the railroad easier.

I looked around my house and sifted through empty vodka bottles until finally I found a box with a very powerful spotting scope that had a 15x magnification zoom range. I grabbed the spotting scope and raced back outside and looked down at the railroad. I saw the railroad tracks but I couldn’t see anyone sabotaging the rail tracks. I sighed in relief, “Those LBH guys must have just been bluffing” I told myself but as I continued to scan along the railroad tracks I spotted about seven men doing something to the tracks. My stomach felt as if it sank, I dropped the spotting scope and without even thinking I rushed over to the small shack beside my house.

I barged through the side door and opened the front sliding door to allow the jeep to leave the shack. It was the same jeep from all those years ago from when I had killed Wildhorse and Rose Pedal. I have never driven it since the day I parked it here. I hoped in the driver seat and started the jeep, they had really been built to last and it only took me two tries before the jeep started.

The jeep puttered to life and I looked in the back of the jeep, all of my assault weaponry and gear from the days when I was a mercenary were still in the back of the jeep. I had never bothered to throw it away, I never even wanted to touch it. The only reason I kept my revolver was because it was given to me by my father and the shotgun was for self defence against wild animals.

I slapped the jeep into drive and sped along as fast as the jeep would take me towards the railroad.

“This can’t be happening… not again” I muttered to myself sadly as I continued to speed through the forest. I looked back to the rifles and reached back and grabbed an AK47 from the pile of guns. I had always told Ivan “Russian weapons are the most reliable and versatile weapons ever created, no weapon is more reliable than the AK47” and it was true, though the barrel’s exterior had been weathered severely over time the gun would probably work with little to no problems.

I drove the jeep out of the forest and onto a dirt road and sped along the bumpy dirt road. As I drove along the road I placed the butt stock of the rifle against my leg and cocked back the charging bolt and loaded a fresh round into the chamber, the gun’s pull back was a little stiff but it worked without much resistance. I held the gun’s grip with my right hand and rested the barrel on my left arm which was steering the truck. I squeezed the trigger briefly and let off a quick burst.

The gun rattled and fired off four rounds without any sort of malfunction. I nodded to myself and set the gun across the passenger seat, without any doubt by the end of the day I will have killed again and I had sworn to myself all those years ago that I would never kill again but this was different somehow. These men, these mercenaries, they were going to kill many innocent ponies. Though many humans hate ponies I could not allow these heartless men to kill stallions, mares and foals who were all just taking a simple train ride.

A tear rolled down my cheek as I approached the railroad tracks, in the very far distance I could see the black smoke stack off the train engine and I knew I would only have a few minutes to stop these men before the train was destroyed.

I cursed to myself and turned the jeep and drove alongside the edge of the railroad tracks. “Come on… COME ON!” I yelled as if my yelling would make the jeep go any faster.

As I neared the group of men that were sabotaging the tracks they looked to me. Several of them stood up and waved, knowing that a pony would not drive such a vehicle. I stopped the jeep withing 20 yards of them and turned the jeep off, one of the men called out to me.

“Hey man, nice of you to show up to give us a ride” he called out but as he called out to me I lept out of the driver seat and into the back of the jeep and mounted the M2 Browning machinegun. Several of the men just froze in fear as I swung the massive machinegun towards them. “OH SHIT!” yelled one of the men as I pressed the trigger and began to fire the devastating machinegun.

.50 caliber slugs burst out of the gun in full automatic fire and the men that had sabotaged the railroad tracks were simply ripped apart. Once a .50 caliber round stuck their body they would simply tumble backwards, their bodies were turned into a crimson of destroyed body parts. Within seconds the madness was over, their bodies lay on the ground, eviscerated by the fearsome .50 caliber round.

I hoped off the jeep and grabbed my AK47 as I walked up towards the sabotaged railroad. As I inspected the explosives I heard the train come around the bend in the tracks, I had less than two minutes but I hadn’t the slightest of clues about how to disarm explosives so I ran forward and tried to scream for the train to stop. “STOP, STOP” I scream but I knew that no matter how loud I yelled they wouldn’t hear my screams. I looked to the men and quickly knelt down beside them and began to search their bodies in hopes of finding anything that could help me stop the train. “Please… PLEASE” I prayed, hopping that someone, somewhere would answer my prayers.

As I searched through one of the men’s pant pockets I found a syringe and it was labeled ‘Unicorn Serum’. I remembered hearing about serums back in the war, apparently humans found a way to enchant people with unicorn and Pegasi abilities though the serums were said to be rather unstable and if too much serum was taken the person using it would overdose.

I had never used a serum before but I knew that this was my only chance to stop the train and that someone or something, somewhere had heard my prayers and answered them. I stuck the needle into my wrist and squeezed the plunger and injected myself with the liquid serum. As I pulled the needle back out of my wrist my body seemed to tense up, my muscles flexed and veins began to protrude from my muscles. Hopefully I hadn’t given myself an overdose.

I staggered to my feet and walked over to the railroad tracks then realized that I had no idea how to cast a spell or what kind of spell to cast. “Uhm… train stop” I said uneasily but the train kept coming forward at full speed. “Uhm… train stop now” I said again but the train continued on and its steam engine whistle blew loudly. “Stop… please?” I asked but it kept coming forward and was less than seventy yards away. I rushed forward along the track and stood on the tracks but made sure I was far enough forward that I wouldn’t set off the explosives.

“STOP!” I yelled then brought my hands forward like I would simply stop the train with my bare hands. Suddenly a magical blue aurora surrounded my hands and I felt something tingly course through my hands. I focused as hard as I could on the train “STOP” I yelled again and the train conductor must have heard me because a stallion stuck his head out of the train and looked at me then went back inside the train and the train’s rail wheels screeched along the tracks as the train conductor furiously tried to stop the train but I knew that it wouldn’t stop in time.

I focused on the train engine and imagined it stopping, the train engine was encased by a blue aurora and the train started to halt at an accelerated pace but even still the train was going to slam right past me and into the explosives. “NOOO” I yelled and tried to focus harder than soon realized the only way to stop the train was to change where it was going so I used all my strength that I mentally had and focused my magic on the train engine and levitated it off the tracks and derailed it into the dirt, though the train crashed I doubt it was as bad as what would have happened if the train had hit the explosives.

I released my magic hold on the train engine and nearly collapsed from the physical exertion, who would have known that using magic was so physically exerting. The train conductor looked out the side of the train engine and gasped, not really knowing what to take of the scene. I looked around me to realize that there I was standing on a railroad track near a bunch of dead people whose bodies were eviscerated into a gory mess and I had just technically derailed a train but for good reason.

I quickly turned and raced for my jeep, not wanting to be around when the authorities arrived.

* * *

Trixie’s point of view:

Finally I had been granted a big case, something worth looking into. After my failed magic act career and being showed up by Twilight for a second time I had never really been given the chance for something big but when General Hammerhead himself called me and put me on the case for a derailed train I thought ‘Great another derailed train, this will be fun’ but when I arrived it turned out to be so much more.

After first arriving it looked like some train had been derailed but then I spotted the bloody mess of some bodies that had been covered up so that young foals didn’t see the death and crimson. After close inspection I soon found that the railroad had been sabotaged but for some reason the train had been derailed before it could hit the explosives. All the ponies in the train were lucky, the explosives would have probably killed them all.

“So explain to me again… what happened?” I asked the train conductor, whose head was wrapped because he had hit his head pretty hard when the train was derailed.

“It was the strangest thing… I was just driving when I heard a faint voice yell stop so I looked out and there was this human. So I tried to pull the train to a stop but suddenly he just stuck his hands out and the entire train engine was caught in some magical aurora… like a unicorn spell. Then the train was pulled off the tracks and derailed but it was strange because he ran away and left and I thought he was one of them LBH fella’s but it turns out that he actually derailed the train so we didn’t hit the explosives on the tracks… it’s the weirdest thing” the train conductor explained.

I stood up and looked around, this was big and I could get commended if I cracked this case. “I need to use a phone” I told the conductor and he pointed down towards the town of Ponyville. I knew just the pony that could help me, my old unicorn rival Twilight.