"Hold on a sec, guys. Did you just say 'sis'', as in sister?" Rainbow asks in disbelief, holding her arms out in a halting motion.

"Yeah, and it's been a damn long time, too," Koldan says, his eyes misting over happily in reminiscing. He turns back to Vinyl. "So when did the whole drumming thing start?"

"About the same time DJing stopped. But I had to keep makin' noise, ya know? Couldn't just let an apocalypse stop me making noise, now could I?" she grins. "You know what they say, "Jeśli idziesz przez piekło, nie poddawać się."

He looks at her blankly for a moment, his smile fading; a look of confusion comes across his features. "They actually say that?"

"No, not really. I don't think so anyway." Vinyl replies, chuckling.

"Well, I do hate to interrupt the reunion here, but it's quite late, and I really think we should get some sleep. That and the neighbors are knocking on the door asking why we're being so loud." Octavia says from near the door before crossing to her bed and flopping unceremoniously down on it.

"Heh, yeah I guess we really should be getting some sleep soon, eh?" Rainbow Dash says lightly, her eyes half closed. The others nod in agreement, the long walks and hours weighing down again.

Man, what're the chances of this? Dash wonders absently as she falls asleep, We go on a mission to Central, her head flops to the side in Twilight's direction, and who do we meet along the way but every one of our friends from way back when. Now that's a textbook definition of 'coincidence' for ya.

"ALRIGHT, EVERYPONY UP!" A harsh, and very loud voice shakes the reunited group from sleep. They all sit bolt upright in surprise. Standing, Koldan opens the door, checking what's going on outside carefully. The others soon join him in looking at two large stallions with intimidating, and very large machine guns with ammunition belts hanging over their shoulders.

"This is a hold up, don't resist, and nopony gets hurt." They start slowly moving through the area, helping themselves to whatever they so please.

Rage burns its way onto Dash's face as she clenches her hands into tight fists. "This is just wrong. We have to do something!"

"You're right." The simple words somehow turn into and inconceivable concept as they leave Koldan's mouth. Everypony stares at him in shock at his agreement.

"You can't be serious, right? I mean, look at the situation! They have those giant freakin' guns, and all that armor, and what do we have? And even if, the minute you attack, they'll just blast you to little chewed-up bits. Literally!" Vinyl cries out, backing away from the group a bit and looking her brother in the eyes. He opens the door a little further and walks out, looking slightly towards the ground.

"I know," he says with a sigh, his hand still lingering on the door frame, "but I also know that I can't just sit back and watch this happen. I'll be back in a bit." He turns and continues walking, his hoof slowly going to his side and tracing lazily over a belt of throwing knives.

"Oh, I can't watch!" Rarity exclaims dramatically, putting a hoof to her forehead palm-out.

"Hey assholes!" Koldan calls, approaching the two huge stallions, interrupting their beating of a little filly, "I think it would be smart of you to leave." They look at each other, the filly forgotten and crawling away. They simply laugh uproariously at him, throwing their heads back and gripping their stomachs.

"Haha! And what you do about, little colt?" one of them manages after a moment as the other takes his MG from its resting place on his shoulder.

"Well, I could always just kill you, but that's hardly ideal. I would prefer if you just leave."

They let loose another rattling bought of laughter.

"One." Koldan's voice turns dark, his features curling into a snarl.

"Why little colt say 'one'? What this mean?" the same brut asks, pulling his own MG down.

"Two."

"Two? Two?! Why little colt count?" They both prime their weapons, put keep them down.

"Three." Koldan waits just a moment before jumping at them, drawing a knife. They both swing their weapons to point at him.

Bang! Bang! Two shots ring out through the silenced station. Koldan's eyes widen in surprise along with the thugs as Vinyl's widen in horror.

"Koldan!" she cries, dashing out of the house, past the stunned group. Koldan just stands there though, staring at the two, his knife falling lazily to his side as the two fall to the ground.

"Why hello again, my little ponies! How have you been?" says a smiling Khan, a smoking revolver in his hoof.

"Khan?" everypony wonder aloud, except for Vinyl and Tavi.

"Who's this guy?" Vinyl asks, turning to the group, gesturing at Khan with her hoof over her shoulder. A blank, questioning expression plastered across her face.

"My name is Khan," Khan explains to her, "I met your friends here a while back, but had to leave them for a while when we got to the Red line. It's nice to see that they're all okay still."

The frost of silence starts to spread over the group as the hum of everyday life takes the station again.

"So how did you manage to find yourselves here?" Khan breaks the still-forming quiet.

"Well, we were going and then a battle happened and then we met some ponies and then Fluttershy killed somepony who had killed somepony" Fluttershy's eyes start to water, "and then there were, like, a hundred million thousand mutants and then Koldan did some magic thing" Koldan looks up at this, a confused look spreading over his face, "and this big blue thing appeared and killed all of the-"

"Hold on, hold on, hold on," Koldan waves at Pinkie Pie in a 'slow down' motion, shaking his head, "What are you talking about? I did a magic thing? Earth pony, and all, or haven't you noticed?"

"No, you definitely did something back there," Twilight says, and everypony nods in confirmation. Koldan looks at them all in confusion.

"That's not biologically possible." He tries to remember back to the tunnel, but comes up with no recollection of that event. He doesn't remember anything at all, actually. He starts to feel dizzy, the world spins around him as his vision dissipates to nothing.

"Koldan!" Vinyl's voice is the last thing he hears before his knees buckle and hit the ground with a dull metallic thud.

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SO SORRY ABOUT THE WAIT! Band has been keeping me plenty busy. Well, that, and I've been watching the series again in German (Freundschaft ist Magie). Also, sorry about forgetting about the URL gestapo, here's the song from the other chapter: ( www DOT infiniteloope DOT com/?v=jceuvafBBTM#/73;141) So, yeah. Maybe the next chapter will come a little sooner, and maybe a little longer. 'Till next time: /)*(\