And welcome back every pony! Man am I glad to bring this chapter to all of you! Not to glote or anything, but it's probably the best one I've come up with. And for one reason. I actually found out some way to write my own song into this. Now since this is a story and not a tv show or anything, you all might not see the song being played out in the same way I do. So yeah, there's the warning on that. And don't worry about passing over it or missing it if you want to see the hit or miss idea of mine, you'll spot it pretty easy.

But there's also another reason I've taken a while to write out these chapters is the spell check. Since I have to write the dialogue with the accents, I pretty much have to spell check it all myself instead of using the spell check tool that FanFiction gives you. Don't worry though, I'll try to put up chapters as fast as I can.

And finally, after all of those OC's that I looked over, I've chosen the two that will be helping The Whipper! Who are they? Well you'll all see this chapter.

And since I didn't have a QotC last chapter, I don't have much of anything else to say this intro. So without anything left to say, let's start the chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own MLP or anything else famous mentioned. Nor do I own the two OC's that were in the intro. I only own Blitz and this story idea.

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"Alright, so what do I need all this for again?" I asked them. They were making me some western clothes for me to where.

"Because we can't have any pony around here knowing that you're from the future. You need to blend in." Bright said to me, still looking at the picture. I had just finished explaining to them that they used an old camera on purpose to make it look like that.

"And as far as I can tell, you'll look the part to me." Jewel said, looking through a closet for some clothes that would work.

"You know, if you want I can tell you about them." I told them. I wasn't a genius on time travel, but I knew there wasn't really any harm in telling them about their some amount of great granddaughters.

"That be great! Oh what does my great-great fabulously great-granddaughter Rarity do?!" Jewel asked.

I looked at Bright, thinking that if there was any objection or problem, she would know. But she nodded, understanding what I was trying to ask. "Well, let me try to see what I can tell..." They both looked over towards me, stopping what they were doing.

I only had to talk about Rarity and Twilight, so I thought for a second and started. "Rarity works as a dress-maker, and has a obession with all things 'refined' and 'beautiful'. And almost everything she makes has gems in them. She's actually really good as far as every pony says. I can't really say much about her work though since I don't care at all for looks." I told them, but mainly Golden Jewel.

"A dress-maker?! That's fabulous! It seems as though she takes after her great, great, great, great, very great-grandmother Golden Jewel." She said, bragging about herself through her title which had great in it too many times.

"And Twilight Sparkle is the smartest one out of us all to be honest." I said, turning attention to Sparkle Bright. "She works as the local librarian with that little dragon, Spike, as her assistant. Which she actually hatched from an egg as part of her magic test. But that's not even the best part. She's also Princess Celestia's star student." I finished with a smile towards them.

"Star student of THE Princess Celestia?! My great granddaughter is the star student of the Princess of Equestria?! Wow!" Bright said, looking back at the picture. She sniffled a little, proud of her relative.

"And about that Spike," I started. Since it was the past, I didn't see what was wrong about telling them something which I hadn't technically yet made a promise to keep a secret about. "It turns out, he actually has a crush on Rarity." I told them, snickering a little.

"That so... My, that is interesting." Jewel said with a smile as she looked at the picture. "Well I for one think that's adorable. They don't seem like a bad couple at all." Jewel continued to muse. Guess she was a nut about all this love stuff.

"Well, I think that's all I should say about them for now." I said, not wanting to accidentally reveal anything too different from this time period.

"Alright. Well, I think I found you some clothes. They're Sparkle Bright's brothers, but it should be just fine." Jewel said as she gave me a coal-black vest. I put it on, and felt that my wings were still trapped under it, but they were supposed to be I guess so I was good.

"Wait... Your ears missing!" Bright said to me,

"Huh?!" I said. I reached up and realized that my metal ear was gone. Then I remembered that it was still in my pocket. "It's fine. I got it right here." I pulled it out and clicked it in place, careful not to play music because the technology would probably scare them even more.

"From that same accident right?" Bright asked sadly.

"Yeah. My ear, tail, and a few other parts of my body were messed up. So it's made of metal. In my world we call ponies that are part machine a cypony. And I'm the only one." I told them, frowning a little at that.

"Got it. We'll stop talking about that." Bright said. "But you're still missing something." She told me.

"My tail?" I asked.

"No, not that." She looked at me a little more before clapping her hooves together as she remembered. She went over to a chest and pulled out a coal-black cowboy hat. She levitated it over and put it on my head. "Since there isn't much shade around Pony Valley, every pony where's a hat. So there." She said with a nod.

I looked at myself at a mirror that was next to me and saw that I looked just the same as when I did in the picture. Except I was missing my tail. So with my tail missing, the hat covering my mane, and the vest matching my coat, I looked like a shadow. Well, all except for my Cutie Mark.

"Alright, well if were all set then let's go already." I told them as I started going for the door.

"Wait!" Bright called out one more time as she went up to me.

"Now what?!" I asked, getting annoyed that I was being stopped for every little thing she could think of.

"You might look the part. But you need to sound the part too." She told me.

"Huh?" I asked, confused by what she meant.

"You sound like you're from Canterlot when you're a pegasus. You need to have the same accent as them." She told me.

"I'm not that good at a western accent. That, and what if I mess up?" I kept thinking about how awkward that would be if I messed up.

"You're right... Wait, I got it!" Bright said to me. She then had her horn glow, then shot a beam of magic at my throat. It hit me and I coughed a little because of it. "There. Now say something." She said with a smile.

"And I'm supposed ta say what exactly?" I asked, immediately seeing what she did. I was talking with a real western accent as if I was born in the wild west. "Hold on a dang second! What did ya do ta my voice?!" I asked, not sure why I said 'dang second'. I wasn't even trying to talk like that.

"I used a spell to make it so you have an accent as if you were born 'round these parts'." She said, trying not to laugh. "But it's fine. All you have to do is say 'Voice change by choice' and your voice will go back to normal. And vice versa." She told me with a nod.

"Voice change by choice." I said. I felt my throat tingle a little and I spoke up. "Did it work?" But I answered my own question as I heard my voice go back to normal.

"Yes. But don't tell any pony the chant because some pony else can use it on you too. Voice change by choice." She said to me.

"Aw come now, ya can't possibly make me believe that can...ya?" I asked, noticing how my voice changed by her saying that. "Aw that ain't right!" I told her.

"Hey, I didn't create the spell. But either way, we're the only three that know it. So are we all ready to go?" She asked me.

"Darn right we are." I sighed after hearing me say that. I was just trying to say 'ready to go', but the accent thing didn't let me. I could tell this was going to be annoying.

"I think I'm going to stay and work. Some pony around here needs to focus on the present instead of the future." Jewel said to us, getting back to work.

"Okay then. Let's go... Wow, I don't even know your name." She said, laughing a little at that.

"It's Electric Blitz." I told her.

She nodded and sighed at that. "Great. I think we're going to have to come up with a new name for you too. But we'll cross that path when we get there. Now let's go and see how you do outside." She said as she walked outside with me right behind her.

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Rainbow Dash's POV

Stupid books! Why can't there just be a list of what's in the book on the cover or something?!

As we all kept looking through book after book, they all started to pile up on the floor. But that didn't keep the two colts from playing with Blitz's tail like a sword.

"Have at thee Snails!" Snips said as he swung the sword in his mouth at Snails, who had a wooden sword.

Snails tried to block Blitz's tail with the wooden sword, but the tail cut through it like it was nothing and Snips went spinning around from all the force he put into the swing.

Eventually, it slipped out of his mouth and went flying into a book. That was right next to my neck! "HEY!" I yelled out, almost hit by Blitz's tail.

"Sorry! We thought it was made out of wood!" Snips yelled out, not knowing it was metal.

Twilight sighed. "It's fine, just don't play swords in here okay?" She asked. We could all tell that she was holding back some serious anger because they sent the tail into one of her newer books.

I tried to pull it out, but the book came out with it. That's when I saw the title. Advanced Space Destortion Spells. Well, that was convienant.

"Hey Twilight! I think I found something!" I pried the book off Blitz's tail and tossed it over.

Twilight caught it with her magic and opened it before scanning the whole book. Then she saw something. "How to spot differences between space/time portals! Perfect!" She then read out the parts that were important.

"Dimensional Based Portals: Alway have a black color to them." We all sighed in relief at that.

"Teleportation Based Portals: Mainly have a light blue color to them." We all either were either hoping that was what happened or that it wasn't so every pony had mixed emotions on that.

"Forward Time Based Portals: Usually are colored orange with multiple other colors too." We all just stayed quiet at this point, hoping that this book had something on what happened to Blitz.

"Backwards Time Based Portals: Usually have a light purple color to them, with different multiple colors too." We all gasped, knowing that was the kind of portal that Blitz got sucked into.

"So Blitz went into the past?" Fluttershy asked.

"Yes Fluttershy. So now we have two problems. One, we need to bring Blitz back as soon as possible before something changes in the present. Two, we still need to learn how to make a portal quickly before some pony realizes that were all missing and finds out what's going on." Twilight told us.

"Then hurry up Twilight!" I said, pointing at her with Blitz's tail. Then I noticed that it was still in my hooves, which freaked me out. "AH!" I yelled, tossing it behind me.

"AAAHHHHH!" I hear a louder, more dramatic scream behind me. we turned around and saw that Rarity's tail was cut off because of Blitz's tail. She glared at me before turning and seeing her tail got cut around the middle. Once she saw it, she passed out dramatically, pulling a pillow over to faint into.

"Oops..." I said, doing that by pure accident, I swear.

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Blitz's POV

As we kept walking around Pony Valley, Bright kept her distance from me. Saying something about how I would draw attention walking around with some pony that wasn't a pegasus. So I kept quiet and kept walking forward, only glancing at who ever passed by from the corner of my eye. But they all kept their distance like I was some kind of freak. Great, high school all over again.

As I walked towards the town centre, I spotted a familiar sight. Whipper. I glared a little, but didn't turn my head towards him. He was standing there with two other ponies, all of them looking like outlaws. I didn't get a good look at either of them, but I saw that one of them spotted me and jerked his head towards me.

I didn't see what happened after that, but after a few seconds I heard that sickening cackle from Whipper. Just hearing his laugh reminded me of the pain of being dragged through that cactus field. Thank Celestia that Golden Jewel and Sparkle Bright were smart enough to take out all those needles after they got me away from Whipper. To bad I still looked a little beat up from it, so I stuck out even more than a pony with his tail missing would.

So I just kept walking on and eventually made it to the center of town. Looking around, I saw that the middle of it was just an empty spot where every pony kept walking around. Trying not to draw any more attention, I did the same. The only thing that confused me is why did they keep avoiding that spot? Was it being cleared for construction or something like that?

After thinking for a few seconds as I looked at the barren middle of town, I crashed face first into a group of barrels. "Ow." I said, rubbing my nose in pain. I looked up at the building I was outside and saw it had 'Diane's Lagoon' Written in big, blue letters to make it look like water. I looked back at the group of barrels and said it had 'water' written across the front of each of them.

"Oh good, they came!" I looked at the doorway and saw another familiar face.

"Pinkie Pie?..." I asked, looking at the pink Earth Pony that was in the doorway. She had the same coat as Pinkie Pie, but had a darker shade of pink for her mane and tail. Plus her mane and tail wasn't all crazy and inflated like Pinkie's. It was frizzy and all, don't get me wrong, but it was more taken care of. She also had a little grey bowler hat on that had a purple feather on it. Which was the same color purple as the western dress she had on.

"Pinkie Pie? Now I don't know any Pinkie Pie. Name's Diane Sarsaparilla" She said in a pure western accent.

"Oh. Well pardon the mistake." I said in that western accent Bright gave me.

"Aw, ya don't got ta worry none. So this is that water I sent fer right?" She asked me.

She must've thought that I was delivering this. Since this place was a desert without anything but Everfree Forest, or swamp in this case, being the only green for miles, it was probably best that I played along. Besides, if this water was dropped off outside of her building, then it's probably hers anyway.

"Yeah, I'd reckon it is." I told her.

"Just in time. I got me some might thirsty travellers today. Bring em on in." She said, she then went back inside.

Great, now I have to carry five barrels up three steps and through a saloon full of a bunch of thirsty hitch hikers that might be thirsty enough to steal the barrel of water right off my back. Yeah, great going Blitz.

I hoisted up the first barrel up carefully, careful not to have the water spill on me. it was kind of heavy but I was still able to manage. I brought it up the steps and through the wild west door curtains. As I went inside, I saw Diane right behind a counter she was cleaning, a piano that was turned so you couldn't see if any pony was behind it or not.

But for the most part, the whole saloon was filled with shady looking ponies that were all giving me the evil eye. Okay, scratch what I said before. This was a saloon full of a bunch of pegasi haters that might just beat me up because I walked inside. I think I'd rather take the thirsty hitch hikers than a group of pegasi haters any day of the week, hooves down.

"Over here!" Diane called out from behind the counters. She pointed next to the counter to where there was one more barrel with water labeled on it that was right next to some keg stands. I brought it over and put it right next to it before heading out to do the same trip four more times.

Every time I did so, the glares from all the ponies inside just got stronger. They looked like they were daring me to come back inside each time I brought the next barrel in.

By the last barrel I was just about out of breath and the glares were about to become threats. I put the barrel down by the rest and took one deep breath. "That's all of em." I told her.

"Thanks fer helpin me bring those in." She told me. Help her?! I did all the work!

"Don't mention it." I told her, signs of me being out of breath obvious by how I talked. "Guess I'll be goin now." I told her as I turned to leave so that all of these ponies would stop glaring at me.

"Nonesense. Sit down and I'll be right with ya ta get ya somethin ta drink." She told me as she was cleaning a glass mug.

"Oh that's quiet alright, ya don't have ta do tha-"

"SIT!" She snapped at me with a frown, not taking no for an answer.

"Alright fine. I'ma sittin down." I told her as I went over to a seat. If she got mad at me, than the others must hate my guts right now.

"Good. Be right with ya." She said with a happy smile. She then went back to cleaning the glass mug she had.

I sat down at an empty table, toward the corner of the room next to a window. On the other side was that piano, which was eerily quiet. None of the others even cared though as they all kept glaring at me.

I shook off the glares and just kept looking around. The whole place in general was a lot more decorated and friendly now that I look at it. And even more so than I ever thought any saloon could possibly be. Yep, this was Pinkie's Ancestor alright.

I glanced outside as I waited, and saw Sparkle Bright sitting on a bench with a small book she had brought to pass the time. She looked up and saw that I was looking at her from the corner of my eye. While no pony was near her, she levitated up a small sign that said 'Just go along with it'.

I mouthed 'what', but she just levitated the sign around so I could see the back. It read, 'Don't give away who you are'. I understood what she was trying to tell me and nodded slightly.

She looked behind me and quickly teleported away. I turned around and saw Diane right in front of my face. She put down two silver bits and seven... copper bits. "Huh?" I asked no pony in particular, wondering just what these copper bits were.

"I just wanted to pay ya fer carryin them barrels inside when ya didn't have to. Especially when all them stallions were glarin at ya." She explained. Okay, guess that these copper bits were money back in the... Wait, what did she say?

"I beg yer pardon?" I asked, wondering just what she meant by 'ya didn't have to'.

"We both know you weren't deliverin all them waters. They never trust a pegasus with that kinda job. Every pony knows that." She said to me with a small smile. Crap, she got me there. "Now yer gonna tell me just what yer doin here and where ya came from." She said.

Dang, I blew my cover already? Guess it wasn't really that hard for me to do since I know next to nothing on Equestrian history. "Alright ya got me." I started "I'm not from 'round these parts. I'm from somewhere far off. I don't ta talk about it none though." I told her.

"Alright, well guess I can't force it out of ya. So," she said, changing the subject. "what do ya want to drink?" She asked me.

"Oh, I'm not thirsty. 'Sides, you've done enough for me." I told her, gathering up the money she gave me. It was probably a good thing she gave it to me, because I was broke.

"Now don't be lyin to me mister. I can tell ya haven't had anythin good ta drink all day. You've only had some salty food if anythin." She said, looking at me. It was creepy though, because she was technically right. All I've had is some salty rip off version of- her famous sarsaparilla! So this was that Diane every pony kept telling me! How did I forget that?!

Still, I didn't want to be here much longer. Especially when all the stallions in here had a look of anger and... jealousy? "Uh... Nah, I'ma fine. You've done enough fer me anyway." I said starting to get up. If a saloon fight broke out, then it be one against around twenty. And I'll give you three guesses on who'd be the one.

But she still didn't take no for an answer. She forced me back in my seat and shook her head with a smile. "Fraid not cowcolt. Now I might not know you, or where yer from, but I can tell when any pony is thirsty." She said with one of those smiles that said that she knew she was right.

But I still wanted to avoid trouble. So I tried to challenge my way out. "And how do ya know yer right?" I challenged. What happened next I was not expecting.

"Well..." She started. She then jumped up on my table and looked at me with a huge grin and did the most random thing ever. Sing.

Sarsaparilla by Diane Sarsaparilla (Created by 4428gamer. A.K.A Me:)

Diane: Well I'll tell ya right now.

Diane: Yer mouth looks a little dry.

Diane: So if you're a mighty thirsty

Diane: Then come on down, don't be shy!

Diane: We got drinks fer every pony.

Diane: Whether big er small.

Diane: Or even short or tall,

Diane: There's always somethin that will make ya. Have. A. Ball!

Customers: LIKE?

Diane: Chocolate milk to cheer you up,

Diane: Maybe some tea ta fill yer cup!

Diane: But of course there is another thing

Diane: That'll make ya feel really keeeeeeeeeeen!

Diane: It's one drink that ain't bland.

Diane: It's the one thing they all demand!

Diane: Ya just gotta taste it, and you'll understaaaaaaaaannnd!

A banner then opens up above the counter which had "Sarsaparilla" written across it. And at the same time, the floor around the piano turned so you could see the piano playing baby dragon, which looked a lot like Spike. It also had a banjo player that looked like a Mr. Cake that was as young as the rest of them, a fiddle player that looked like Octavia Melody, and even a pegasus that looked like Ginger Star that was just singing and stomping her hoof with a rythem.

Diane: Why it even has its own band!

She then jumped back over to me and got right in my face. "So what'll ya have?!" She asked me.

I looked around and saw that instead of every pony glaring at me, they were all leaning in to hear what I'd say "Uh...guess I'll take the sarsaparilla?..." I said, which sounded more like a question coming from me.

They all then smiled and cheered as Diane yelled, "GREAT CHOICE!" right in my face. Then she did cartwheels all the way over to her counter, where she started pulling out ingrediants. That's when the band started singing for her one at a time.

Spike: Diane makes it really fine!

Mr Cake: So well that yer on cloud nine!

Ginger Star: A great flavor waits for you!

All: When you drink this tasty breeeeeewww!

Octavia: First she gets some ingredients!

Ginger Star: But don't eat em yet you greedy ant!

Mr Cake: It won't go without a miss

All: Cause the recipe goes. Like. Thiiiiiiiiiisss:

Spike: First the water!

Octavia: Then some sugar!

Ginger Star: All of that goes in the cooker!

Spike: Next the sassafras roots!

Mr Cake: That'll even please the old koots!

Octavia: Next is the raisins!

Mr Cake: Followed by yeast!

Ginger Star: Then chase it down with a few good beats!

All Four: This is just the start for yooooouuu!

All Four: When yer getten to taste Diane's Breeeeeeewww!

Spike: She'll cook it up real swell!

Octavia: So darn well the smells a spell!

Ginger Star: Then she'll add the ice!

Mr Cake: Now the vanilla!

Mr Cake and Spike: Sweetened up with the honeeeeeeeyyy!

"Aw, you guys are so funny!" Diane sung, blushing as if they were talking about her, even though she just literally added honey into the recipe.

Spike and Mr Cake both looked like love-struck fools as Octavia and Ginger Star exchanged bored looks. They then smacked the two males upside the head, the Spike look-a-like with a fiddle and the Mr Cake look-a-like with smack to the back of the head with a well placed hoof. They then came to their senses and started playing again, this time a little scared of the two girls that were obviously in charge of the band.

Ginger Star: And now that it's all made,

Mr Cake: We hope it makes the grade!

Octavia: And don't worry about the price,

All Four: Fer Diane is really niiiiiiiiiiice!

Diane brought over the sarsaparilla and put it on the table with a smile, before jumping over to the band to sing the last line.

All Five: Now that drink there is fer yooooooouuu!

Diane: So we hope you'll like my Fa-mous Breeeeeeeeewww!

She jumped back over to where I was with a wide grin on her face.

Diane: Enjoy the Famous Brew!

All the customers, which were either dancing or nodding their heads to the song, all cheered the band. The four of them then started bowing and thanking the customers, while Diane was still standing next to me, waiting for me to taste the free sarsaparilla she's forcing me to drink.

I looked at it and picked it up, taking one sip. But the second I took a sip of it, I immediately started chugging it. When about half of it was chugged down, I stopped my self and put the glass mug back on the table.

"This is tha best dang sarsaparilla I ever done tasted!" I exclaimed, really surprised by how well this tasted.

"Glad ya like it." She said as she pulled out a big glass jug and refilled my sarsaparilla. "And just ask when ya want another one cause the next rounds on me!" She said, saying that last part loud enough so all of us could hear.

All the customers, including me, rose our mugs and cheered as thanks to her. Which she just grinned at twice as big as before, going off to take care of the other customers.

As she left, the band then came over to my table. Wild West Ginger Star flew up above us as the rest of them sat in the three seats that were at the table. "So what'd ya think of our band?" The western Spike asked.

"It's really good. I didn't know it was possible to come up with a song about a recipe fer sarsaparilla." I told them, honestly impressed that they made a good song out of a recipe for a drink.

"We didn't make the lyrics, we only play the instruments." Western Octavia said in a slightly normal voice. Guess she faked the western accent for the song. "Diane's the one that made the song. I still can't believe she puts beats into that recipe and it tastes so good." She said, still a little stunned by that fact.

"Yeah, that is kinda odd." I said. "Hey, while yer all over here, do ya think I can ask a question?" I asked them

"Go ahead and shoot pardner." Western Ginger Star said.

I turned to her, the question more towards her than the others. "How come every pony here acted like they were gonna tear my head off, when yer part of the band?" I asked, confused by that.

"Well ya see, no pony here really hates any pegasus. Diane don't care if yer a Pegasus or an Earth Pony. So any pony that comes in here learns to see all ponies as equals just like her." She told me.

"That's great. Cause I've had this bad run in with 'The Whipper' and-" Upon hearing that name, the western young Mr. Cake hushed me right away.

"Quiet! If any pony in here hears that name then there'll be a problem!" He told me.

"Why? I mean, if he only picks on pegasi that 'have done somethin wrong' than none of ya got nothin ta worry bout right?" I asked them.

"Dang, you ain't from these parts are ya? Ya see, he doesn't just punish pegasi fer doin somethin wrong, but he punishes any earth pony that tolerates pegasi." Western Mr. Cake said.

"Still don't think that's right." I muttered as I picked up the glass mug to drink some more of the sarsaparilla.

"So moving past that, allow me to go ahead and introduce ourselves." Western Octavia said, trying to be polite. "I am Beatrice Note." She points to the western Spike. "The pianist's name is Tune." She then pointed to the western Ginger Star. "She goes by Fire Leaf." She points to the western Mr. Cake. "And finally, our banjo player, Carrot Topper."

"Hello y'all." I said to all of them. That's when I noticed the differences between them all and the ones from my time. Beatrice had a fiddle with small music notes coming from it for a cutie mark instead of whatever that musical note thing Octavia had. Carrot Topper had a sliced up carrot instead of three carrot cakes. Fire Leaf had a cool looking flaming tri-force for a cutie mark. And finally, Tune's spikes that went from his head to the end of his tail were lime green instead of normal green like Spikes.

"So what's yer name?" Tune asked me, making them all look over. "You seem to be quiet the loner so I'd be surprised if any pony even knew ya yet." He told me.

"Well uh... I should seem like a loner, cause ya see..." Okay Blitz, you have to think of a great name. Electric Blitz might've been good before, but you were lucky to come up with a random good name like that. So think carefully.

I quickly looked around, trying to get some inspiration to come up with a western name. All I knew about anything western before all this was stuff from movies, which were all more opinion and changed around to make it seem different from real western times, and then some history stuff I learned before in my world.

That's when I saw something behind them. A single copper star that was just above the counter of the saloon. Sadly, that made me blurt out the first thing that I could could think of. "Lonestar! The name's Lonestar." I said with a nod.

"Lonestar?" Tune asked.

"Yeah... Lonestar Alamo ta be exact." I told them with a nod. I admit it, the name was cheesy and unoriginal... In my world it was anyway. But here it fit in perfectly. That, and it was ten times better than just calling myself a famous western or country name like Clint Eastwood or Zac Brown or something.

"Well nice ta meet ya Lonestar Alamo." Fire Leaf said as she stuck out her hoof for me to shake.

I accepted and we all smiled glad to get introductions out-of-the-way. But just as I was finally about to have a small break from all of this stuff that happened today, it was all cut short.

"SLAM!" We all looked over to see at the doorway, The Whipper and his gang coming in.

Beatrice, Tune and Topper all grouped up as Fire Leaf landed on the ground and pulled me behind the group to hide from the three pony threat that just walked in.

Whipper then walked over to the counter, where Diane was cleaning a mug with her eyes closed, refusing to even look at Whipper. The two of Whipper's henchmen just stayed at the only exit, guarding it.

The one henchmen that was towards the left side of the doorway was the one that was closer to us. And he was the most intimidating out of the two henchmen. He had a brown coat and a black mane and tail with a grey streak that went down them like Twilight's. He also had a black dusty vest on with a small holster on his side that held a small knife. And if that wasn't intimidating enough, he had a cutie mark of a skull with a large crack through it that went over the right eye.

The second one wasn't as intimidating as the first, but he still didn't look like he should've been messed with. He had a blue coat and a darker blue mane and tail, and simple brown vest with a black cowboy hat. The creepy part was that he had a copper mask on so you couldn't see his face at all.

As Whipper got up to the counter, he put on a sickening friendly grin. "Well howdy there Diane! Ya happy ta see me?" He asked, his voice having a friendly yet sickining sound to it.

"Yeah I'd be happy ta see ya." Diane said with slight anger in her voice as she kept her eyes closed. "Happy ta see ya leave." She added. Oh, Burn!

"Come now Diane, I can be a reasonable pony. 'Sides, don't ya know it ain't nice to talk to a pony without lookin at em?" He asked with a glare and a sickening smirk.

"You outta know lots bout that, seein as how you ain't nice at all." She continued insulting, still not looking at him as she simply cleaned the glass mug.

Whipper growled a little before snatching the mug right out of Diane's hoof before breaking it over the counter. He then held the shattered mug as if it was a weapon towards Diane. She had her eyes open now and backed away a little, now scared of 'The Whipper' and his gang.

"Now see here Diane, you know just gosh darn why I'm in here, and I ain't leavin 'till I have it! So yer gonna hand over three of them water barrels, right now!" He demanded, glaring full-scale now.

"B-b-but y'all only take two barrels a month!" Diane said, cowering a little.

"Yeah well, that lip a yers made mine mighty thirsty! So we'll be taken three this time 'round!" He said. He then cackled madly as he smashed his half of the mug against the counter, shattering it to a thousand pieces of broken glass. Then he walked over to the five barrels I just brought in.

I saw that Diane had used more than half of a barrel just after me bringing them in, so I guessed that she needed all of them to last a whole week. With three barrels gone, then she would only last for one or two more days this week.

"Fine! You wanna carry all them barrels away?!" Diane asked, getting mad. "Have em! Happy trails!" She yelled out, mad that The Whipper ruined the happy moment all of us were having.

"Oh, we ain't gonna carry em outta here! Where's that no good pegasus we saw bringin in these here barrels?! We ain't seen him leave yet, so we know he's in here!" He announced, scanning the room for me.

"Why is he doin this?" I whispered to Fire Leaf, who was hiding right behind me with the others. "If he only 'punishes' pegasi, then what business does he have messin with Diane?" I asked.

"It goes like this... He don't just punish pegasi. He punishes any pony that cares fer and treats a pegasus like equals. Since hearin Diane's opinion on how pegasi should be all equal like, he punishes her by taken two barrels a month. Only this month is busier than usual. And with him taken three barrels... Well I'm pretty sure you can guess the rest." She whispered back as we both peeked out from behind the others, who were acting as a pony shield to block us from view.

But as Whipper looked around, he noticed as all three of them were all grouped up like that. "Now what do we got here? We y'all bunched up like that?" Whipper asked, already knowing that they we hiding something.

"Bunched up? Who said we were bunched up?" Tune asked, standing on the other's heads. They all just smiled nervously, hoping Whipper would just move on.

But Whipper wouldn't. He just pulled Tune away from them, holding him above ground by his main spike that was on the top of his head. "Now see here ya stinkin little Canterlot dragon! I don't like bein lied to! I know yer all hidin somethin, and yer all gonna just move aside and let me see!" He yelled out, glaring at Tune who was just shaking as he was hung above ground by his main scale.

"Now... GET!" He said, throwing him through the window behind us all. He landed outside, which made every pony outside turn at attention towards Diane's Lagoon.

That just left Topper and Beatrice. They scrunched up closer to fill in the gap that Tune was in to keep us from being seen. But Whipper just turned towards Carrot Topper. "Now you gonna move, or am I gonna have ta make ya?!"

"Well... Yer just gonna have ta make me." Topper said, obviously scared right now.

"Fine, if that's what ya want Mr. Brave, then let it be!" He said, now taking out his whip. He then whipped at the floor around Topper's hooves. "Dance Brave, DANCE!" He then started cackling madly as he sent his his whip forward. And with each crack of the whip, they got harder to dodge.

After about ten more whips, one eventually hit Topper in the front right hoof. As he cried out in pain, Whipper slammed into him, making him fly out the other window that was near us. And since we were in the corner of the saloon, Topper landed right next to Tune outside.

That just left Beatrice and by this point. While she and every pony inside the saloon was getting more and more scared, I was getting more and more fed up. Whipper didn't even know for sure if they were hiding me, yet he was just beating them out-of-the-way without a care!

Beatrice just kept a scared expression as she stepped in the way of Whipper's view, her being the only thing left in the way.

"Now you outta know that I ain't afraid a smackin some pony outta tha way. So if ya don't wanna end up like yer friends outside... MOVE!" He yelled out loudly, putting his whip back by his side as he just glared at her really angrily.

She didn't say anything as she just swallowed nervously. Whipper just blew some steam out of his nose like a bull, finished with all of this. "I said... MOVE!" As he said 'move' he smacked Beatrice across the face so hard, she went flying out-of-the-way and onto a nearby table where some customers were cowering in fear. Upon hitting that table, she blacked out from the pain of it.

But the second Beatrice was literally smacked out-of-the-way, was the second I had enough of this. As soon as all three of them were out-of-the-way, I charged forward and tackled Whipper with so much force, he went flying across the room and through a table.

I was glaring as much as I could, angry about all of this. Those three did nothing wrong, but Whipper just pushed them out-of-the-way without one single care.

To bad my element of surprise was gone now. Whipper just glared ten fold at me, really mad now. "Dead Eye, grab the pegasus that hidin behind him. Quickshot, round-up those three I just dealt with. I'll take this trouble maker myself." He said calmly as he made his way up. He looked angry and ready to kill me, but I could tell that him going through a table did a little damage to him.

Whipper drew out his whip again and sent it in between me and Fire Leaf, making us both jump in two different directions. Just what he was trying to do. He then kept aiming the whip towards me, making it so I could just barely dodge each one. As I was distracted, I saw Beatrice lifted up from 'Dead Eye' and taken outside where the other two still were. Same with Quickshot as he caught Fire Leaf and started bringing her outside, and no matter how she struggled, she couldn't get away.

As I was looking at my two new friends get captured, Whipper ran forward with great speed and tackled me as hard as he could, sending me through the window Tune flew out of.

I landed just a little farther than Tune, who was already captured by Dead Eye. He had come out here and gathered up the three of them, now bringing them towards that empty spot in the middle of the town. Quickshot was doing the same with Fire Leaf.

I quickly got up from the ground, seeing Whipper jump out the window behind me, whip in hoof. "Now you've been tryin my friendly nature all day fly boy! Now yer gonna get it!" He then sent his whip right at me, but this time I was ready.

I lifted my metal hoof in front of it, making the whip crack against my metal leg. Whipper drew it back in confusion. "W-what?! Yer supposed ta be cryin in pain!" He yelled out, caught off guard.

"Nope. Turns out, this hoof here ain't real." I said with a smirk.

"Well some of ya's gotta be real, so that don't matter!" He then sent his whip forward, I tried to dodge it or hit it back with my metal hoof, but he just kept whipping me backwards like a lion tamer.

Eventually, I found that I was brought to the clearing in the middle of town with the others. They were all tied up and Whipper's henchmen with the mass was nowhere to be seen. "Quickshot, now!" Whipper yelled out, looking at a roof that was near us.

I looked over to see that the masked henchmen was coming down on me, and before I realized it, he landed on me and tied me down along with the rest of them. Most of Pony Valley was gathered around now, seeing me, Fire Leaf, Carrot Topper, Tune, and Beatrice Note all tied up and at the mercy of Whipper. I tried to think of a way out. We were tied down to where a rope was around our torsos, and spikes were hit into the ground so we were anchored down. Also our hind legs were tied together but not our front legs.

"Now, ponies of Pony Valley! What we got here are a gang a trouble makers! The two Earth Ponies and baby dragon tried to hide the two pagasuses from sight while they were in a place a business. Andd as we all know, no pegasus should be allowed in a place a business unless they're delivering somethin and for no other reason than that! But these two pegasuses were drinkin sarsaparilla's and enjoyin themselves! Y'all know what that means!" He cried out to all of them. He then cackled at us all before turning to his two gang members.

"Dead Eye, hand me yer knife. Then both of ya get them barrels a water that Diane owes us!" He ordered. The henchmen Dead Eye did just as Whipper asked then went back in with Quickshot.

Whipper then turned to us. "Now since you four are first time offenders of the rules, I'll go easy on y'all. So I'll cut off yer tails and the dragon's spikes on top of his little head." He told them. They all looked terrified.

"Where as fer you..." He said, turning attention towards me. They all looked at me, wondering what I did or how I was reacting. What surprised all of them was that I didn't look scared at all. If anything, I just looked ready to snap back at Whipper. "Fer setting free two pegasuses that were in the middle of bein punished, hidin from me when I was lookin fer ya in Diane's Lagoon, and worst of all resistin capture! yer in fer it now fly boy." He told me with as strong a glare as he could make, trying to make me scared.

"Oh wait, don't ferget sendin ya through a table." I said with a smirk. The whole crowd gasped at what I said, mumbling to one another about that. A few of them even chuckled and giggled at the thought of it.

"SHUT IT!" He snapped out, making them all immediately be quiet from fear of him coming after them next. He then turned to me. "You got a lotta nerve. Cause a that, I'm gonna let ya watch helplessly as I start punishin yer friends first." He backed up a little and went to a pile of fire wood. He brought it over in front of us and then stomped on Tune's tail, making him breathe fire onto the wood. The heat from it being so close was not pleasant at all.

"First up, the other pegasus!" He then went over towards her, getting behind her. She tried to tried to struggle as much as she could to get free, but it was no use. Whipper then yanked on her tail as hard as he could, making her scream in pain. All of us next to her held our ears in pain. That's when I got an idea.

As I un-hooked my ear, Whipper kept pulling on her tail. About five seconds in, he finally stopped and cut her tail off at the base. She was trying to keep herself from feeling any pain, but she couldn't stop hissing in pain. She just stayed in place, not wanting to get hurt anymore than she already was.

But Whipper didn't care. If anything, he just cackled in enjoyment upon hearing her screams of pain. the four of us just glared at him as he threw her tail into the fire, it setting a blaze. Fire Leaf just started forming tears as she was forced to watch her tail burn up.

"Next up. How about the earth pony traitors." Whipper said, acting as if they had betrayed the whole earth pony race or something. They then went from glared and angry to scared and whimpering.

As Whipper went over behind the two of them, I got to work. I put the ear to the rope and went back and forth like a knife. I had to be careful not to activate it, because if it started playing music then not only would Whipper find out, but I would risk being alienated from the rest of Pony Valley. It'd be hard enough explaining just how my ear can come off, but how it can play music would be impossible at this point in time.

"Since I'm a nice law abidin earth pony unlike you two, I'm well-mannered. And ya know what they say. Ladies FIRST!" He said as he yanked Beatrice's tail with all his strength. Beatrice cried out in a screech, making all of us cover our ears from it. I guess being a pony that's into music really helps you to hit the high notes. And she shattered right through any high note I've ever heard. That, along with shatter my ear drum from my only good ear.

After ten more seconds, even Whipper couldn't stand it and finally cut off her tail at the base. She stopped her high-pitched screeching, but was hissing and whimpering in pain.

As soon as the screeching stopped, I got right back to cutting the rope, almost free.

Whipper then threw Beatrice's tail into the flame, making it just grow in size and make us start to sweat. I even saw my left arm start to get a little red from the heat as it got really hot. Sadly, with my ear getting heated up from the flame, I couldn't cut the rope without burning myself. I couldn't risk crying out in pain from branding myself with my own ear, so I just clicked it back into its rightful place. Luckily it couldn't burn me where it was, even though it was on my head.

That lead me to have to think of something else. But it was hard with how hot the fire was. Especially when it was only like a foot away from my face. I looked around for something, and could feel the rope being weakened from me cutting through half of it. I just had to get halfway through it. And the leg restraints wouldn't be much of a problem after. They didn't tie them that tight so I could just pull them off if I could just get my front hooves over to them.

Front metal hoof? Fire? That's it! As I put my metal straight into the fire, Whipper didn't notice as he started pulling on Carrot Topper's tail next, trying to get him to scream in pain too. But he was tougher and just barely managed. Though I could see a tear form in his eye from the pain. None of them even seemed to notice my arm directly in the fire as they all watched Topper's toughness put to the test.

Sadly it didn't last any longer as Whipper gave one more good pull to his tail, making him finally scream out in pain. Whipper cackled at the sound of it and cut his tail off. As he did he continued cackling and I drew my hoof back, it heated up enough. Whipper then turned and threw his tail into the fire, making the flames just come even closer to us all.

That's when he turned towards Tune, who was on the other side of the group from where I was. I took that moment to put my red-hot metal hoof on the rope that was keeping me on the ground so it would burn through the rest of the rope.

"Now ta take care of you little dragon. And since cutting off that tail a yers isn't the same as cuttin off a ponies, I think I'm just gonna have ta cut off yer main spike there." He said gesturing towards the spike on top of Tune's head.

"No! The spike ain't hair or anythin like that I promise ya! It's a part a me!" He yelled out, now scared.

"Well, I'ma guessin I won't know fer sure till I see fer myself!" He said as he started pulling on Tune's main spike. He yelled out in pain and fear, not wanting to get hurt.

By this point, the rope around my torso snapped off, but the screaming pain from Tune blocked the sound of the rope snapping. I quickly got to work undoing the rope on my tail.

"Here comes tha knife!" Whipper yelled out after cackling like a mad stallion. The knife then started swinging towards Tune.

"AHHH!" Tune yelled out in fear as the knife was pure inches away from his spike. That spike was basically part of Tune's scalp and if that thing came off...

But before the knife would even connect with his spike, I jumped above the other three and tackled Whipper away from Tune with as much strength as I could, sending him into a cart.

I put my metal red-hot hoof to Tune's rope that was keeping him pinned down, making the rope snap. "Get the others free Tune. I'm takin care a this now." I said, furious at this point.

Tune nodded and un-did the restraints on his feet, now going to the others. I watched as Whipper jumped out of the cart, charging at me mad like a crazed bull.

Knowing that my vest was keeping my wings from flying over, I used my brains to counter his rage. I side-stepped out-of-the-way, tripping Whipper with my front right hoof as he just barely missed me. He tripped and fell to the ground, me jumping on him right away. "You almost killed Tune!" I yelled ou in anger. He almost de-scalped a friend of mine, so he was in for it now. "Yer in fer it now!" I yelled out.

"And what you gonna go 'bout it ya darn pagasu-AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" He yelled out in pain as I brought down my still red-hot metal hoof, branding a hoof mark into his right shoulder. All this stuff he'd done brought me over edge. Torturing others just because he didn't see pegasi as equals was not right no matter how you looked at it. And almost de-scalping Tune was even more over the top than his 'punishing' of any pony by cutting off their tails and hanging them upside down on railroad signs.

After his cry of pain, his two henchmen came out of no where and tackled me away from him and back towards the fire. They helped Whipper up, but his brand mark kept him from being able to put any weight on his front right leg.

After sitting their leader down, the two of them started approaching me. I put my left front leg directly into the fire, warming it up enough so it could be used for self-defence. The silent one got Whipper's whip, while the other one picked up his knife that was on the ground next to him.

But before they could come even closer, we all heard a quiet noise from behind me. I turned around to see a thick cloud of smoke coming forward. "Dang, it's them two no good nosey unicorns again!" Whipper cried out in a combination of anger and pain. The crashing through a table, multiple tackles, and branding in the shoulder did too much damage to him to just ignore.

I turned back towards them to smirk in victory, but as I did Quickshot sent the whip towards me. He wasn't as experienced with it as Whipper was, but it did more damage than Whipper ever did. It hit me somewhere that was really weak and did a number to me. It hit me directly in the left eye.

"AH!" I yelled out in pain, jumping back from the whip. I tripped to the ground, now at the mercy of them because I was caught off guard and I couldn't feel my eye at all.

As the two henchmen started approaching me, I started blacking out. The pain from where my eye had been was too much to bare. But before they could approach me, Whipper called them off.

"We don't got time fer it! Get me outta here before them unicorns show up!" He ordered. I barely saw them glare at me before turning back and picking up their leader before running away. As I started blacking out completely, the last thing I remember seeing was a blue and peach figure looking down at me. I was only able to mutter one thing before I was out of it completely.

"My...Left...Eye..." That was all I could manage to say before I passed out completely. Leaving me at the mercy of everything and anything now.

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And cliffhanger on the third chapter! That, and this is my now my longest chapter hands/hooves down! With over 9000!... And over 10,000 words to be more exact. Trust me, this is as long as I plan on making chapters. That is, unless you all like chapters being this long. But it had the most stuff in it. With the fight, Blitz being introduced to Pony Valley, and even a custom-made original song (Which I'm pretty sure isn't that good, but that's up to all of you to decide)

Well see you all once I get the next chapter up! It might take me a few days to write each of them, so sorry if there's around a two-day break between each chapter. But I promise that I'll try to make the finale as great as I possibly can with each chapter! So until next time every pony!

QotC: What is the coolest, non-firearm (revolver's and other GUNS), weapon of the old west? (Ex: whip, Bowie Knife, crossbow, etc.) Why?