Predator, no, you are my prey. -Tempest Knight

I flew for a few minuets before I saw the three rangers walking away, all of them were tattered from the battle but nonetheless looked up to me as I circled for a better landing angle. As I touched the ground, the paladin took off her helmet and set it down, I approached the mare once more.

"General, good to see that you are still alive." she stated, sniffing afterwords.

"Chin up girl, takes more than a wannabe army to kill me." I said looking to the other ponies as they too took off their helms, I recognized them instantly.

"That is twice now that you have saved my life sir." the stallion said.

I looked at him hard before looking back to the paladin.

"The other paladin commandeered my two soldiers here, when they got back they told me about you." she said trying to stop herself from tearing up again.

I walked forward and gave her a hug before retracting my face armor, "Hush, you have chosen to fight for the common pony, and for that you and all who follow you have my respect."

"Thank you." she whispered between her short breaths.

"I have a final mission for you and your squad." I calmly stated.

"And that is." she asked picking her head up as I stepped back.

"Assist Arnold Ponegator in escorting the surviving stable ponies to a town near the badlands known as Nowhere." I said as I hoofed them a map.

"Yes sir, we won't fail you." she stated before putting her helmet back on and charging away, the others not far behind her.

"Arnold, I just sent three friendly rangers your way, they are in black armor." I said over my suites broadcaster.

"Understood, Tempest, know that I'll be back once my objective is complete." the ponytron replied to me before it dropped the line.

"Thanks." I muttered shortly before I gave a sigh.

Turning I flew off towards Hoofington as the bottom of my EFS flashed 'Side Mission Complete' thus ending my reason to stay here. Taking a look back I could see Canterlot billowing with pink smoke everywhere, I looked sadly to it, knowing that everyone there had died a horrible death, and that no amount of sin would ever condone such an action.

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Hours of flight passed by and I found a small factory that was halfway collapsed on one side. Landing I read the sign, Ironshod Firearms, the main weapons manufacture during the war. I walked in just to see if I could find parts to repair my inoperable railgun and found that I was surrounded by many, many, glorious guns. I gave a whistle before I strolled down the lines picking up several weapons that were in decent condition, before I came across a line that had been exposed to rain water pouring in from above it. The weapons here were heavily damaged so I pulled them apart to salvage whatever I could.

I had in almost no time at all fixed my damaged railgun and began to make my way to the overseer's office. Opening the door I was blasted in the face by an alicorn.

"Okay, that was uncalled for!" I yelled stabilizing myself as the alicorn was joined by two more.

The first one shot upon me while the other two covered themselves, and the one shooting at me, with a magical shield.

"So you want me, then come and get me wenches!" I yelled diving and building speed before I plowed through a wall.

The three alicorns quickly gave chase and caught up with me with ease. I banked right and was surprised to see the three had been joined by six others.

"You all really want me eh?" I asked, but they didn't reply.

I shot upwards and nearly ran into a pegasus in black armor, and her squad. They looked at me for a second before magical energy blazed past the five of us. I dove down after beating my wings twice before tucking them in to my sides as I made for the surface. The alicorns were not expecting me to play chicken with them as I incinerated two of the green ones. The pegasi watched on as I got on an other alicorns tail and spread my wings to keep with her. I attempted to fire my auto cannons but nothing happened, looking around my EFS I didn't see any guns equipped, I dared a glance to my suite and saw that I had magical damage that had severed the battle saddle controls.

"Well then, this ought to be fun!" I shouted, grinning madly as I pumped my wings.

The four pegasi above me pulled up a few clouds, guess they wanted to watch the show, personally I couldn't blame them. I so close to the first purple alicorn that I grabbed her flank and opened my mouth guard before biting her ass, earning a rather painful scream from the afflicted pony. I put her out of her misery with a blast of balefire before turning sharply and shoving my hoof into the chest of another green one. I was then hit by a blast of magical energy in the side of my head that took down my EFS, though my spell matrix thankfully stayed online. I pumped my wings and spat a ball of white hot flames that incinerated the alicorns right wing before I flipped in mid air to narrowly avoid a green one trying to buck me.

"Well then this has been fun, but thou shall now die." I shouted before blasting flames, to which the blank flank deflected with her magic.

I was blind sided by the last purple alicorn who blasted my head with her magic before I dove for the ground. With my vision slipping in and out I banked out of my dive and rolled so that I could fly between two large and very dead trees, to which I was glad when an aicorn turned to mush by running into one of the said trees. Four were left and still giving chase as I pumped my wings hard, my vision was now closing in on itself when the four pegasi blasted the last of the alicorns just before I blacked out.

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I woke with my head in immense pain, what was worse was when I looked straight into the sun and I was temporarily blinded.

"Oh hey, look he's up!" I heard a female voice say from somewhere behind me as I spun around to see.

I looked at her black armor and remembered the battle I had just had with the alicorns. Her muzzle, a regal blue, was the only part of her that I could really see that stood out from the Enclave armor. I looked to the other three pegasi that had brought me up here, two of which were aiming their weapons at me, while the other had pulled out medical supplies and was treating me.

"Didn't know the Enclave had any honor after what they did to us during the end stages of the war." I stated in a half growl.

"The war, what do you mean?" the medic asked.

I puffed a plume of smoke before I looked at her, "Your Enclave abandoned us in our darkest hour, if they had stayed we could have stopped half the destruction down there." I explained with much venom in my voice as I stood, only to realize my spell matrix had shut off.

"Until we know if you were born in the wastes you aren't going anywhere." Their captain stated before walking away.

"So, you wanna tell us about yourself?" the medic asked coming up to my visual range, her muzzle was a color similar to that of butter.

I sighed before looking her in the bug eyes of her enclave armor, "I lived through it all, I must have stopped about fifty of those damn missiles before I fell." I replied, the tone of my voice becoming defeated.

"Wait, you're pre-war?" the captain turned around shocked.

I glared at her, "Yes I am, and only recently have I done anything. The question remains, why didn't the Enclave come down and help after the war?"

"Not our place." she said, giving a huff.

I started smoking from my muzzle before I forced myself to stand, spell matrix or not, "Thou ungrateful sob!" I roared.

The two soldiers aiming at me lit the tips of their guns but did not fire, I paid no mind to them.

"Excuse me?" the captain asked.

"You heard me" I shouted, forcing each of my steps towards her.

"If not for me and my team, you would be dead!" she retorted.

"I admit, I owe you four that much, but the Enclave didn't exist until the cowardly pegasi closed the sky and betrayed Equestria, even though they belong to Equestria." I growled as I snorted flames from my nostrils that curled down to the clouds and made them evaporate.

"Rip his armor off, if he doesn't have the mark of a Dashite, then we need to give him one!" the captain commanded, much to the medics surprise.

Just then my spell matrix reactivated, and I pounced on her with my muzzle bellowing idle flames, "You are lucky that I have mercy!"

"Mercy? I'm the one with more guns." she stated nervously.

I ripped off her helmet and softly breathed flames that licked the right side of her face and burned down to the bone, "May this be a reminder of the dishonor you support." I growled before jumping off of her.

"What the Hell did you do that for?" the medic shouted as she ran to her captain.

"She should be grateful that I spared her life." I said before jumping through the clouds as the other two Enclave soldiers shot and gave chase.

I tucked my wings in as I emerged from the clouds, just north of Fillydelphia, as I shot westward and vanished from their sight. I landed near a river before sitting down and letting a few tears fall as I remembered the cries of the burning citizens of Baltimare.

Author's Notes:

So Tempest did something he may regret later, or may not. Whereas the Enclave now knows that there is an unmarked pegasus pony who they must now hunt. This should be an interesting development.

Note: Tempest didn't kill the others because he had no reason to, also he lost them because even in armor he is fast as hell (half dragon help with that since he is lighter than normal)...

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