We got moving that morning. My leather jacket was inside my rucksack, I'd need it when winter comes. The Cz was straddled nicely around my thigh, it's glint caught the eyes of Celestial, who I learned was a Czeck weapons enthusiast.

"Where did you get that might I ask?"

"I found it, why?"

"How? How did you find it?"

"Well you see, I woke up and it was, well, there."

"Well... that makes no sense whatsoever."

"Well it happened, deal with it. It's also how I got the vest."

"You killed somepony didn't you?"

"Well yea, you've seen me do that..."

"No, I mean for the vest. You killed somepony over a vest and then robbed a dead body."

"I found it, that is the only answer I need and all the answers you are entitled to child!"

He was silent at that, there really isn't a way to respond to this.

"Well we have other good news!" Helm's voice rang out from across the room.

"What is it?"

"Well, remember how you made that grenade out of cooking supplies?"

"Yes..."

"That got my thinking..."

"Well that's not good at all."

"Shut it. Now what if I took the igniter out of their broken grill, acquired two wires, and a bottle of 90 proof alcohol in a spray bottle."

"This isn't going where I think, is it?"

"Well you see, I thought to myself; If the chemical reaction of a spark to a flammable liquid such as high concentration alcohol is an explosion, why not just utilize a PVC pipe and make a pressurized bomb?"

We were silent. Something couldn't work about this. It just wasn't meant to be.

"That's... interesting to say the least. How's it detonated?"

"Well you see, there are two screws in the bottom of a water bottle, which has 90 proof alcohol inside of it, with a PVC pipe connector on top of it. Then I fill the pipe connector with nails and other goodies. The primer is a tin can with the bottom attached to the igniter attached to a plate. Once that plate is stepped on, the ignition will create a spark that flows through the wire, then into two nails on the bottom of the bottle, then into the alcohol. You know the rest."

"So it's a pressurized landmine..."

"Guess you could say that."

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why do you know these things?"

"I dunno, why do you?"

Good question. Why do I know this? Oh wait.

"Because I was a Royal Marine, why wouldn't I?"

"Because it wasn't your job in the Royal Marines?"

Well shit.

We had hotwired yet another car and taken it through the city, the subway wasn't that far, since most ponies didn't take the normal roads as an exit to the city. Most used the highway and jammed it to high hell. Once we had gotten to the subway, which only took fifteen minutes by the unused roads, we were greeted by a mass of Royal Marine Humvee's.

"What's your business here?" Asked a mare, who seemed awfully familiar... wait.

I flashed back to the moment I got here, the mare I nearly ran over.

"Well we're just leaving the city ma'am." Octavia said, not realizing who she was.

"Well I'm going to need to ask you to exit your vehicle." She raised her M16 at us, just like before.

We sped off and rammed through both lines of Humvee's and down the stairs that lead to the train. If we could make it to that train we could get out of the city quickly. Ponies on both sets of stairs darted towards the walls to avoid the oncoming vehicle. Some weren't so lucky. We ran over a small group of ponies that hadn't reacted quick enough. As the vehicle made impact with the security posts, it was halted. It wasn't going fast enough to plow through it. The pony that had been managing the post was barely missed, he had already pulled a Glock 19 out from his belt.

"Exit the vehicle!"

We spoke among eachother, then we nodded in agreement.

Helm emptied both barrels of 12 Gauge buckshot into the officer's face. His head was blown off. We poured out of the car and hid from a hellfire of shots. They ringed off of the car's engine block and the other objects around us. We heard them hit through the windows and soon enough the windshield shattered at the sound of a 10 Gauge shotgun.

Somepony was a tactical breacher, and they knew exactly how to deal with us. I heard the pump of a shotgun, coming closer and closer. I made a bolt to the train, Celestial followed while Octavia helped Helm fight off the oncoming onslaught. Once onboard, we got the plan rolling.

"Celestial you get the train's electrical power back online! We need to get en route to the northern gate of Whinnyapolis!"

Helm already knew his orders, he was to divert shots from us until we got power online.

The breacher passed by the car, and got a buckshot in the chest. He wasn't quite dead yet, so Helm shot another one into his head.
He used the weapon's break action to reload it, then placed two more shells in. That was when the lights on the train leaped back to life. It was as if we had shocked the metal giant back to life. Now it was under our control.

Helm ran towards the train, firing both barrels as he ran. He didn't hit anypony, but for him that wasn't the case. He recieved a shot to the leg right in front of the door. As soon as he was in the train lurched forwards and trugged along.

"Get on that train! Don't let him get away!"

Their orders were quickly followed as 3 ponies got on the train from the rear entrance. I could see them through the window. They hadn't seen me yet. I pulled the collapsed demolition pony behind a seat to keep him safe. He dropped something from his hoof. It was a tin can, with a water bottle attached to it by a 5 foot length of wire. The wires were connected by electrical tape.

"You know what to do Cloud, just set er up and wait." He said between breaths.

"Listen, this isn't your last breath! You'll make it!" Octavia had said above his screams.

"Octy! You watch him while I deal with these bastards!"

She nodded. Gently and gracefully. On that I ran into the next car, I needed to stop them there to minimize the possibility of Octavia or Helm getting harmed even more. I set the mine up at the door of the car and waited at the end, Cz75 in my hoof.

"This ones clear!" I heard from the car behind it.

Then the door opened. A pony kicked the tin can over, which didn't detonate the bomb. I got up, raising the handgun to the first pony's head. I fired a 9mm hollow point into his face, which almost blew his head in half. He fell to the ground, then the pony next to him opened fire as the breacher moved of. This was a suppression tactic, the pony with the shotgun would attempt to take me out while the other suppressed me. As soon as the breacher's shotgun came into view, pointed against my head, I swung my hoof into it's side.

The shotgun was thrown from his hoof, then I shot him in the leg, then through his head. The pony utilizing suppression had finally learned the one downside to the tactic; if it fails you're out of shots. She pulled the trigger on her MP5K to get a click. Throwing the weapon to the floor, she took a step back and drew her sidearm. Unfortunently for her that was where the mine was. She kicked the button, causing the explosive to detonate.

Half of the car was blown off, the rest was engulfed in flames. I got up and broke down the door separating the two cars. I shot the car connector when I was inside, and the flaming boxcar was left behind in a burning inferno.

"He didn't make it Cloud."

I looked at Helm, he was pale. The shot must've bled him out. He had the most peaceful look on his face, as if he was glad it was all over. I pulled his eyes shut, that was when a book fell from his hoofs.

'The cookbook' It was an interesting title.

I opened it up and found hundreds of explosive blueprints, it was all of Helm's work. It was sad looking at it really, I felt that it was his own silent goodbye. There were notes on the edges of every chapter, including one of the last ones (which it was open to) which consisted of the grenade I had built.

Over it read 'Cloud's tank killer'

I went to Celestial and broke the news to him. He excused himself as he needed to rest. In the room where he sat, same car as Octavia, he cried. He had now lost everything.

Everything but me.

Author's Notes:

Well that's depressing. Also the explosive listed works as well, I use it for airsoft. You're welcome.