I'm on a roll and I have so many great simple ideas to use! 1. is no more fucking time paradoxes! I'm starting to confuse myself. 2. Thank you BBB for the wicked nosebleed you gave me with the #46 comment. At first I was thinking "You don't know my weakness." But I was wrong! I was horribly wrong!

David's POV

I stood beside Dustin who simply watched the large black alicorn. Fuck I forgot to tell him about Nightmare form.

[What the hell is that?] I heard Bass say.
<I don't know! Dustin kill it with fire!>

"Relax guys. How hard could he- OOF!" Iron gave him one good punch and sent him flying into a building.

"I'll be back for you David." I felt his hoof touch me cheek. "Sweet sweet David."

"Back off jack off." I told him backing up.

"Oh but I won't kill you. Your friend made a great point. What's the point of killing you? You would be better alive." He walked towards the house Dustin just went in. "But for now... THE HUNT!"

Dustin's POV

"Ugh..." Somehow I bounced off the couch and went through the roof landing in the bathroom upstairs.

"Eek! Help! Creeper!" Said the white pony with pink hair covering wet body with a towel.

"Hello Fleur."

"Bass?"

"Yeah." In case you were wandering what I do in town? I talk. To everyone. "It's me." Two large black hooves came from the floor below and grabbed my face. "Oh my." Iron pulled me down and kicked me outside.

"Oof! OW! Ow! That's going to hurt." I got up slowly so I wouldn't black out. I watched the larger pony walk towards me. "Are you on steroids or something?" I asked him.

"Or something seems right." said David helping me up.

"Thanks man. Where is this power coming from?"

"This power is from my master! The Nightmare!"

"Pussy whipped." I told David earning a small chuckle. He obviously wasn't that scared. "Hey David... Do you know what you forgot to tell me?"

"About the Nightmare form? Yeah... Sorry."

"It's okay." I popped my back. "I just don't think I can win this on my own."

[I'm sure we could.]
{Do you want to try it? I'm game if that's what your asking.}
<Shut up and run!>

I did as Alpha said and ran with David towards the castle.

"Run all you want! I Dark Steel shall destroy you!" He said appearing before us.

"Aw... he's got a name for it. How cute." I said getting a slap. "Ow..."

"Look at you. Your nothing." He held his hoof up for a killing blow.

"May I take a tea brake?" I asked him.

"What?" He lowered it.

"It's just tea time and well... I don't want to die without a nice cup of tea. Do you David?"

"Uh uh."

"Didn't think so. Please Mr. Steel?" I asked like a little kid.

"Oh... alright. Have your tea. I may be evil but I have respect."

"Thanks. You are David's clone. Only this guy would give me tea before I died." Both he and David laughed the same. "And listen to you two! You sound exactly the same! Honestly Steel. I would consider helping us instead of killing us." I sat a table getting a cup of tea from the waiter.

"Yeah yeah." said David sipping on his cup.

"Now that I think about it..." started Steel sipping on his cup. "Why am I doing this? Is it because I was left out or that I wanted power."

"Oh it's the second one." said David. "You and I were so close and now you just want to 'Kill me and take my power.'' He mimicked that last part and sounded exactly like Steel with the royal canterlot voice.

"Alright I'm done with my tea." said Steel. "You die now." He said childishly. I looked at him and my cup of tea. It took a third of a second to decide what my next move would be...

"..."

"..."

[...]
<...>

"AAAAHHHH!" I threw the scolding hot liquid in his eyes.

"Let's go!" We jumped over the guard rail and ran down the street away from the castle.

"Dustin we need to get that armor off of him."

"What's it made of?" I asked him.

"Steel! Duh!"

"Only in that form though right?"

"Yes. Why?"

"Just asking..." I turned the guns back into my Clementine. "Alright boys. Let him have it." I turned around and started strumming the electric strings like the guitar solo from The Final Countdown. Lightning poured out of the sky and struck the alicorn ferociously.

"AH! FUCK!" He threw the helmet off in a rage and summoned a shield to repel it. My lightning immediately had no effect on him. "You two are dead!" He grabbed the orb from his chest and put a lot of energy into it.

"Shit stop him!" yelled David. We turned and I switched to Alpha Wave mode and Clementine turned into a spear. I held it and pulled the trigger nailing him in what should have been the neck but was deflected with his back left foot.

"How did he do that?"

"I don't know! But stop the bomb!" We both heard what sounded like a beeping noise begin.

"You have 30 seconds till death." said Steel.

"Please listen Steel. Don't do this."

"Why shouldn't I?"

"Because you shouldn't have to do this! No one deserves to take a life. I learned that the hard way. That guard you killed. Us in less than a minute... What your doing is wrong!"

"What I'm doing is justice!"

"For what?" said David. "I've seen the future! You will be betrayed! Nightmare will kill you and consume you for your power!"

"I... I-I don't..."

"I just want to be here with Celestia. My friends. Please don't take that away... please..." He said with a tear on his eye.

"Dude..." I told him with tears in my eye. "... Manly tears have been shed." I pulled him into a hug and we waited to die.

Beep 3 Beep 2 Beeeewwwww....

I knew that sound anywhere. The bomb was stopped?

"*sigh* Your right David." He left Dark Steel mode and fell to his knees. "Your right. I'm fighting for nothing. All because I was jealous."

"But you have nothing to be jealous about! You have your own life! You had me as a friend! I treated you like a brother for those years and you just left!"

"Your going to tell about this later right?" I asked him.

"Oh yeah."

[Yeah! Story time!]
<David! Dude! I want you as my professional speaker!> Alpha game me a smack.

"Ow..."

<Better than this idiot.> I closed my eyes and put myself in my head. I crawled out my ear and walked to Alpha.

{Idiot am I?!} I held him with my hoof.
<Yes.> I dropped him and couldn't help but laugh.
{That's basically my life in a nutshell.... AH HAHAHAHA.... HA Hahahahaha...} David and Iron both just watched.

"He's... different." said Iron.

"Yeah... but he grows on you. Listen Iron. Your always welcome to be here but..."

"It's that guard. And all the others I killed isn't it?"

"He was just a kid. Like us."

"Right. Goodbye David. And I'll spare you this once. Next time... be ready." He was surrounded by that shadow bubble and then vanished. Alpha, Bass, and I just watched.

"Uh..." I started to say opening my eyes. "He's not staying?"

"With the crimes he's committed? He can't. It just... hurts. You know?"

"Too well." I left Alpha Wave mode and sat down on the ground. David followed wiping his brow of sweat. "*sigh* David remember just a moment ago I was thrown through a building?"

"Yeah."

"Well... the pain is starting to seep in. Can you help me home?"

"Sure buddy." He got up and put my arm over his shoulder. "You on?"

"Yeah. Let's take it nice and slow..." I hopped with a limp as he would walk normally to counter balance my weight.

"We're like apple pie."

"What? Oh no! Don't go there!"

"Can help it. Your just so easily injured. It's funny."

"At least my stitches didn't reopen." Just then a football hit me above the eye and blood made it's way down "Ah! Damn kids!" I yelled shaking my hoof at them. The 5 of them stuck their tongues out and left. Just the 5... It's like my childhood! It was me... Brandon, Kelly, Lucas, Kay, and my best friend Nathan. He didn't come here though. So that's a good sign. He's probably at home right now eating a slim jim and writing some fan fiction!

[I miss him.]
<I miss all our friends...> Alpha was sounding like he's going to cry. <But we can't mourn them forever.>

"Something wrong?" asked David.

"What?"

"Your crying. Is your leg hurt that bad?"

"No. Just... some memories. Hey can we get some tea?"

"Later! Let's go home man!"

"Fine." We hobbled all the way home. It was like the three piggies. Except one of them is missing and one of them is wounded. And if their on the road I imagine all houses were blown down. Didn't know a wolf could blow down brick.

"Hey David. Do you know where the third piggy is going?"

"Excuse me?"

"I mean... Where is Cold Iron going?"

"If memory serves me right back to Nightmare's hideout. She's going to torture him for showing emotion again."

"This isn't the first time?"

"He's been with me since I came here."

"And he ignored time. Wait! If we went back in time than... we... let Nightmare out." I am such an idiot!
<Called it.>
[Oh burn! He totally did!]
{Aw what? Man...}
<Hey don't feel bad. At least your not someone's bitch.>
[Hey. I remember that one sexy picture of Vinyl.]

"You mean this?" asked David holding a pic of Vinyl in a maid's outfit.

"David! No I need that!"

"Come get it!" He left me and took off for the castle.

"David! Come back! Seriously! David!" I limped after him. Not my precious picture! No!

Iron's POV

"ERR!" Nightmare whipped me again with her cat-tail whip.

"Aw... look at that." She said looking into a cauldron. "He's got a crush."

"You know I don't kill women. AH!" Again with the whip.

"No you don't. That's okay. But you showed emotion and lost David right where we had him!"

"Sorry. I just..."

"You thought about the old times again?" She sighed and lowered me from the torture table. "Iron... What am I going to do with you?"

"I don't know."

"I show discipline only because I love you. Now when you recover and train harder you'll attack again."

"Yes master."

"Good. Dismissed." she said sitting on her throne.

"So... Dustin is back. I haven't forgotten that torture he did to me with that paper bag."

"What?"

"He killed me when I wasn't suspecting it. Now he's back and still alive! Your going to fix that!"

"When?"

"In a few months. I'm going to give you the maximum training."

"Yes, master." I bowed to her.

"Now get some rest."

"But I real-"

"NOW!" she yelled in the royal canterlot voice.

"Yes ma'am!" I left without a second though. Soon David... soon.