One week has past since the incident in Ponyville and our wandering travelers make their way to New Appaloosa. So far they haven’t seen any ponies from the Steel Rangers. The only thing that the group encounter were pretty much just a small group of raiders along with a bunch of Jaggis, but so far everything seem to be going as planned….or so you think.

“Man this would be nice drive to New Appaloosa, if it wasn’t for the fact that the environment was….well dead and lifeless.” Said Vanessa.

“Well unfortunately this is how it is. Unless you have some kind of spell that can bring life back to this Celestia forsaken earth, then good luck with that.” Said Sunny Day flipping through Vanessa monster hunter book.

“Hey you never know.” Said Samantha while feeding tom.  “I mean this is the wastelands after all. There bound to be something that can do that right?”

“Maybe, but for the time being let’s just focus on the task at hand. So Sunny Day what were you out here in the wasteland?” Asked Vanessa.

“Studying the new monsters that have been popping up recently. I don’t know if I told you guys this, but I’m a scientist in New Appaloosa’s science & medical department.” Sunny answered as she put the book away. “The boys back home sent me out here to gather information on the new monsters in the wasteland, and return with as much info as I can.”

“How did that go out for yeah?”

“Not so well when you’re stuck in a gully for the past two weeks. Surrounded by a school of sand sharks.”

“Well it a good thing we came along then huh?” Said Samantha “You would’ve been eaten up by the Cephadrome’s just like those raiders did.”

“That or I would’ve died of starvation.”

Vanessa bit her lip at that, if things went differently that could of happened to both her and her friend. Maybe even have to eat Tom just to stay alive, She shuddered at the ides of being forced to eat a bug. Vanessa was brought back to reality when fire started to appear from under the hood of the car.

“Not again.” Said Sunny Day as she stop the car.

“Man this is the third car that broke down this week.” Said Vanessa getting out of the car.

“Maybe we’re pushing the cars to much, I mean the thing got to overheat all the way out here.” Said Littlepip as she cleans her gun.

“They’re raiders cars.” Said Sunny as she hopped out of the car. “They rarely keep their cars up to date.” She then moved to the back and pulled out a sniper rifle.

Tom crawled out of the car and went on to the roof as a look out keeping it eyes out for anything.

“Well we might as go on foot. Grab your gear and lets go before somepony gets us.” Said Vanessa.

“Aww I was going to make bullets out of the Jaggis claws and teeth we got.” Said Samantha as she pulls up a bag full of Jaggi claws and teeth.

“Will make them later Samantha. Just grab your stuff and lets go.”

“I still find it gross how you two wanted to cut up those things for weapons and armor.” Said littlepip. As she pulls her bag out of the car to.

“Hey we’re in the wasteland. You pretty much need whatever you can take in order to survive out here.” Said Sunny Day.

“Besides the meat wasn’t that bad.” Said Vanessa. As she took a bite out of some leftover Jaggis meat they cooked just a day ago.

“Yeah and you didn’t mind eating it either Little-.” Samantha was unable to finish as they heard a gunshot sound in the air. Tom buzzed it wings loudly and flew over to Vanessa arm and locks on to it. “That can’t be good.”

“The sound came over that hill over there.” Said Sunny Day pointing at the hill. “Let’s check it out.”

“This is a bad idea.” Calls out Littlepip.

“Maybe, but it could be a bunch of raiders and we could take another car from them.”

“Why do I feel like that the only plan we have to move around the wastelands.” Deadpans Littlepip as she follows them. As the group made it to the hill they saw a group of ponies wearing similar clothing as the raiders, but was more well kept and had armor.

“Slavers.” Growled Sunny Day.

“How can you tell?” Asked Samantha.

“Better armor, there cars and trucks are well kepted. Not only that but look how they patrol around the ponies with the collars on their necks. Yeah these guys are Slavers alright.”

“ALL RIGHT YOU PIECE OF SHIT!” Yelled one of the slavers. “GET YOUR WORTHLESS FLANKS ONTO THE TRAIN! YOUR NEW LIVES AS SLAVES START WHEN YOU REACH OLD APPALOOSA!”

“Think that train will take us to New Appaloosa?” Asked Vanessa.

“I don’t think so. Look how many there are of them.” Said Littlepip.

“Hm…..Sunny Day, Samantha. Stay here and be our cover fire if any of the slavers sneak up on me or Littlepip.” She said then focus her attention towards Littlepip. “Littlepip you’re coming with me. It’s time for a prison break.”

“Okay, but just to let you know I only have two chag rounds left. Not only that I don’t have many rounds left ever.” Said Samantha. As she looks in her bag worryingly.  

“You still got blast rounds right? Use that.”

“Yeah I only have twenty of them left and I was saving them for a big monster.”  

“Then make them count.” Vanessa then grabbed Littlepip and sneaked off towards the train.

“Don’t I get a say in this!?” Said Littlepip as she was dragged away.

“Nope, but think of this as a ‘we’re even’ after what you tried to do to me last week.”

“I said I was sorry!”

“Sorry won’t cut it with me. Now be quiet and get that gun of yours ready.”

(Train)

“How did this happen!?” Screamed Samantha as she fire a round down the train car at the slavers who were trying to kill them.

“I think it was because of that cell phone thing of yours.” Said Sunny as she shot a slaver in the head.

“What I want to know is who could be trying to call you? Your phone didn’t even get a signal before.” Said Vanessa. As she pushed a slaver out of the train car window and heard the pony slaver screams as he fell to his death.  

“Does it really matter!?” Asked Littlepip. As she fired little macintosh as another slaver who was trying to get into the train cart they were in.

“Who even driving the train?” Asked Samantha as she smacks her bowgun into a slaver pony head.

“I think it was one of the slave ponies that made a run for the train when the fighting started.” Said Sunny as she reloads her gun.

“Tch figures.” Vanessa said. Throwing a knife at a slaver from a distance and it just hit the floor by their hooves. “Dammit this would be much easier if I had a long sword.” Just as she said that. A flash of light engulfed for a few seconds before dying. Vanessa open her eye to see that her glaive was replaced with a long sword. “Holy crap it’s my longsword Yuki Ichimonji!”

“How did you do that?” Asked Samantha in awe. “But won’t it be too long to use in this train car?”

Vanessa only smiled to her friends question. “Get down, all of you.” Samantha did just that dragging both ponies with her. “Hope this move works.” She said as she placed a hand on her long sword, and closed her eyes.

“What are you idiots doing!? Get that freak and kill it!” Yelled one of the Slavers as they all rushed towards the human. Vanessa opened her eyes as she drew her sword out. Cutting the ponies that were about to attack her into either in half or decapitation their heads.

“And that is one way on how you use a longsword in a closed spaced environment.”

“Was that all of them?” Asked Littlepip.

“I doubt it.” Said Sunny Day handing Samantha one of the slavers rifle but refuse.

“No thanks I’m good.” Said Sam. As she looting the bodies taking food and water canteens off them.

“Switch to your bow Samantha. Seeing how you’re running low on ammo.” Samantha looks at her bowgun then closes her eye and then her bowgun turns into a bow.

“This is so COOL!” She yells.

“Ok so we split up into two. You and Samantha free the slaves from here to the end of the train. While me and Littlepip deal with the ones here and up. Got it?”

“Yes sir captain bossie boots sir.” Said Samantha and runs off with Sunny Day.

“I hate it when she talks like that.” Said Vanessa. “Welp let’s get going Littlepip.”

        While Samantha and Sunny Day took care of the slavers on their end. Vanessa and Littlepip venture towards the engine room as planned. Train cart after train cart Vanessa and Littlepip pushed their way through them. Killing off any slavers and/or raiders that blocked their path. A few hours of killing and freeing any slaves and the duo entered the next room close to the engine room, but before they could leave they were tooken by surprise by what they saw.

“Littlepip are you seeing what I’m seeing?”

“You mean the fact that we’re riding down a mountain?”

“That and the back car is full of baby Aptonoth’s.”

They could hear the cries of the baby Aptonoth’s as there all in cages. Some were even trying to get out by headbutting the bars. As well as others that just lay down in the cages to.

“Are they dangerous?” Asked Littlepip.

“As long as you don’t try to kill them, or piss them off.” Vanessa closed the door to the car the Aptonoth were in. “What I want to know is how did slaver’s get so many of them without pissing off their mothers?.”

“Maybe they killed them?” Asked Littlepip.

“I’m gonna go with that as an answer, but we’ll worry about it later. Right now we have a train to stop.” Just as she opens the door to the next car. Vanessa was sent flying onto Littlepip by what looks like a piece of stone stuck on a metal rod. “*Cough* Son of a bitch! *Cough* What hit me!?”

(Music Starts)

Standing in the doorway was a beefed up minotaur wearing full body armor similar to the Steel Rangers armor they saw last week. In his hand was the same weapon he used to knock the wind out of Vanessa.

“The hell is that?” Asked Vanessa pulling herself off of Littlepip.

“It a minotaur. What is one of them doing here!?” Yelled Littlepip.

“That’s a minotaur? I thought those things were a myth.”

“No there was always stories about them surviving the magic bombings, but nopony knew if it was true or not seeing how far away they live from the wastelands.” Littlepip was shaking.

“So…..anything I need to know about them?”

“Only they’re strong and what I could get from the stable. They were the best blacksmiths around. Apart from that no pony knows.”

“Fan-fucking-tastic.” Vanessa said as she drew her longsword out. “When you see an opening hit him hard got it?” Littlepip was still shaking but nods her head slowly.

“Are you two done talking? I’m not being paid to stand here and listen all day.” Grumbled the minontar.

“No, but your mother would do that when she sells her body out to be your towns slut.”

The minotaur didn’t even move at that insult. “Your point?” He asked as if not caring.

“I’m saying your mom’s a whore dumbass.”

“I know.” He just replied blankly.

“Oh……..well…..this is awkward.” The minotaur moves forward and attacks with his stone like hammer smashing a train seat in the process. “HA! You missed me fuck head!”

The minotaur smiled and pulled a back swing sending the chair flying at Vanessa. Vanessa saw the chair coming at her and barrel rolled to the left and hitting her back into the wall of the train car. Then she saw the minotaur swing his hammer at her again only for her to duck under it and back away. “You missed again!”

The minotaur was smiling as he pulled the hammer free and taking the train car window with it. “Not bad.” He said as what remains of the window fall to the floor.

“This wouldn’t be the only time I had to fight someone with a weapon like that.”

“So you grow up in a city did you?.” The minotaur asked.

“Projects actually. Lived there from the age of five to the ten until my father got me out. After that I lived on a military base for the rest of my life.”

“Sorry to hear that, I know what it like to be turned into a tool for others to use.” He then swung his hammer right at her aiming to crush her in one blow. Vanessa dodged, but the minotaur punched her in the face sending her flying into the floor.

“Going by the way you fight you haven’t done this for a long time.” The Minotaur said as he saw Littlepip. “Not only that, but you have one of these stable ponies with you? Tell me, how long have you been living in the wasteland for?”

“A week and so far we’re doing well.” Littlepip answered.

The minotaur laughed at that before giving Vanessa a sad smile. “I’ve been doing this for too long I’m tired, I just want to lay down and close my eye and never wake up again. But I keep waking up to this nightmare…Can you please, put me to sleep and never wake up again?”

“Tch coward.” Said Vanessa pulling herself up from the floor.

“We all are, every last one of us on this planet. Why do you think no one helps each other? They know there no hope for any of us anymore.” The Minotaur attacked again slamming his hammer onto Vanessa’s sword.

“Heh you give up to easy dumbass, but if you want to take the coward's way out of this hell then just kill yourself!” Vanessa yelled. As she pushed the minotaur back.

“Can’t, minotaur law we can only die in battle. You should know that growing up in the military.” He then pushed her away and try to swing his hammer into Vanessa skull.

Vanessa dodge the minotaur’s attack as she rushed towards him with her sword ready to counterattack. The minotaur let go of his hammer letting it hit the floor and side steps the humans attack. The minotaur then punched Vanessa in the face again sending her to the floor.

“Sorry about this. I’m just doing my job.” He said as he slowly picks up his hammer up off the floor. Littlepip took this moment to fire upon the minotaur while he was distracted. Littlepip kept firing until she heard her gun click empty. Her eyes wide in horror as the minotaur slowly stands back up. “Like I said I’m just doing my job.”

“I’m back!” An arrow fly into the minotaur back and he then around to see who attacked him. Samantha was standing in the doorway in the train car with a smile and Tom on the top of her head like a hat. “That didn’t go as planned.”

“SAMANTHA STAY THE HELL OUT OF THIS!” Yelled Vanessa pulling herself up again. “This asshole is mine and mine alone to deal with!”

“Like that time we went to that bar and you got mad at the claw machine?” Said Samantha with a deadpan stare.

“Get in the way of my fight and I’ll kick your ass like the time you did when we were kids.”

“Sure… Just like the time we went to that movie and you got mad at the ending.”

“Do you two need some time alone or something?” Asked the minotaur as he pulled the arrow out of his back and stare at them. “We’re kind of in the middle of a fight to the death as you can fight with your marefriend once I’m dead or she is.”

“We’re not a couple jerk face.”

“As much as I want us to be sadly.” Said Samantha with a smile.

“You’re not my type Samantha.”

“I forgot you like the guys with the nerdy look, I know you think there cute.”

“No they’re not my type either, and I’m not into dudes.”

“What about that one guy you watched that anime movie with and said you had a good time.” Said Samantha with a big grin on her face.

“That was you brother idiot how you hook me with.”

“Come on you know he likes you!”

“Until he told me I wasn’t his type remember?”

“No… He told me you guys were going out again sometime. Oh that cheeky little he lied to ME!”

During Samantha’s little tantrum. The minotaur sucker punched Vanessa in the stomach, and sent her towards the door of the train cart. “If you two are done talking? I would like to finish my fight with her, so stay out of it.”

“*Cough* Prick.”

“I don’t have time for all this stupidity. I have a job to do and I don’t need a bunch of greenhorns like you to keep me from it.”

“Fine then.” Vanessa pulled herself from out of the door and took out a red container from her back pouch. “I really didn’t want to do this, but I guess I have no choice then huh?” She said as she swallowed the red substance in the container.

“What was that she just swallowed?” Asked Littlepip.

“Demondrug.” Samantha answered. “It acts like a steroid increasing a person’s strength, speed, and I think numbs one’s pain senses.”

“Interesting.” Said Sunny who was writing down some notes. “A drug that can increase a pony’s strength and speed. Does it have any side effects?”

“Not that I know of, but something tells me that Vanessa will be tired after all this.”

“So.” A red aura appeared around Vanessa as she took out a mega potion and drink it. “Now that I got a feel on how you fight, this should be a fair and interesting fight.”

“You think you can still beat me.” The minotaur said. Chuckling at the Vanessa statement. “You wouldn’t be the only one that said-.” Before he could finish. Vanessa launched herself at him with her longsword at the ready. The minotaur saw this and swung his weapon at her, only to see her vanish from his sight. “What the?”

“Down here idiot!” The minotaur looked down only to see Vanessa perform an uppercut with her sword onto his body armor. At first it did nothing, but when Vanessa landed on the floor the armor broke in half revealing his body from under it.

“Not bad mutant, you’re the only one that were able to destroy one of the steel rangers power armor.”

“Mind telling what your name is?’ Asked Vanessa. “You already know my name, but I never got the chance to ask you yours.”

“Iron Wall is my name.” He said as he charged at Vanessa with his weapon ready to strike again. “But it won’t matter to you once I kill you all!” At that moment time seemed to had stopped from Vanessa point of view. During that time she once again closed her eyes and imagine one of her weapons in her hand. And again like before, the entire cart was engulfed in a bright light. Causing everyone except Vanessa to cover their eyes.

*Clang* *Slash* *Slash* *Slash*

As the light vanished. Samantha, Sunny Day, and Littlepip open their eyes to see Vanessa standing behind Iron Wall with her charge blade in hand, and serious look on her face. Vanessa slowly walked away from the minotaur as Iron Wall collapsed to the floor like a ton of bricks.

“Sad really, you could of been a great ally if you weren’t such a coward.” She said as she focus her attention towards her friends who looked at her in shock, well mostly Littlepip. “What? Do I have something on my face.” (Music Ends)

“No we’re just surprised that you beat that minotaur all by yourself.” Said Samantha. “Guess you can cross beat the crap out of a minotaur on the things you never done before.”

“Shut the fuck up Samantha and take care of the slaves that are still in shackles.” Vanessa said as she walked towards the engine room. “Littlepip let’s go.”

“Huh? Uh h-hey wait up.” Littlepip said as she was brought out of her train of thought and followed the human off.

“You humans are very weird, no offense or anything.” Said Sunny Day.

“None taken. Let’s just leave them to do their thing while we free the other ponies.” Said Samantha as she walked towards the other train cart.

(Vanessa & Littlepip)

“H-Hey I have a few questions if you don’t mind me asking?” Asked Littlepip.

“Sure what is it?”

“Why is your skin the same color as chocolate?” Vanessa momentarily stop after hearing that. “Oh Celestia did I say something offensive?”

“N-No, no you didn’t say anything offensive or anything. It’s just the way you said it that took me by surprise that’s all.” Vanessa said trying not to bust out into a fit of laughter. “To answer your question I’m African American.”

“Oh okay, so how come your friend isn’t the same color as you are?”

“She’s white.”

“So are all human brown and white?”

“In a way yes. What you thought that all humans were the same color or something?”

“Well I never meet your kind until a week ago. You can’t blame me for wondering that.”

“Yeah good point I guess…..wait what did you think why my skin was brown?”

“Uh well I figure that you ate too much chocolate when you were just a little filly and your skin turned to the same color as chocolate.”

“.........BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!”

“What’s so funny!?” Yelled Littlepip who was blush.

“That’s the most stupidest thought I have ever heard of in my entire life! I mean what kind of human turn brown just by eating nothing but chocolate for the rest of his or her life!?”

“Oh fuck you jerk!”

“Okay, okay I’m sorry for that outburst.” Vanessa whipped away the tears from her eyes. “Let’s just go and see what’s in the next train cart.”

“Fine but this isn’t over.” Agreed Littlepip as her horn glowed causing the door to open. The duo entered the room and found out they were inside a kitchen. A very somewhat old and beat up kitchen that you would see in a silent hill movie. Just without the monsters and having the environment change every few hours or so. “Geez you think they would keep this place up to date.”

“Yeah you think so huh? Let’s see if we can get anything useful out of here before-.”

“WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING!?” Vanessa turn her head to the left to see a Slaver levitating a shot at them.

“Who care! Just shoot her and get that pony. We can sell her once we hit Old Appaloosa!”

“I really hate the wasteland.” Vanessa said. As she and Littlepip jumped over the kitchen counter to avoid the shotgun bullet being fired at them. “Hey how much ammo do you have in that gun of yours?”

“You mean little macintosh?” Littlepip levitated her gun towards her as she open it to check how much ammo she has. “two rounds.”

“Okay and how many ponies are trying to kill us right now?”

“five.” Vanessa kicked open the bottom cabinet in front of her to pull out a frying pan. “Um I don’t think this is a good time for cooking Vanessa?”

“I’m not gonna cook Littlepip, but I do need you to fire at the frying pan once I throw it into the air.” Vanessa tossed the frying pan into the air as Littlepip fired the last two bullets from little macintosh at the pan. The two bullets bounced off the pan and into two of the slavers skulls. “Two down three to go.” She then pulled out three throwing knives and hand one to Littlepip. “To your left!” Littlepip tossed the knife to the left hitting the slaver that was about to shoot her in the throat, while Vanessa threw her knife into the slaver on her side’s throat as well.

“Two down one to go.” She said as she rushed from behind the counter with her charge blade in hand. The Slaver shot at Vanessa, but it was blocked by her shield.

“OH SHI-!” Before he could finish. Vanessa shield bash the pony into the air and tossed her sword into the air as well.

“LITTLEPIP NOW!” Upon hearing that Littlepip jumped off the counter, off of Vanessa’s shield, and then grabbed the sword that was in the air slamming it into the heart of the Slavers chest. “Nice teamwork there.”

“Wow, that was amazing!” Yelled Littlepip who was trotting around in joy. “I mean I never done anything like that before, but we did in perfect symmetry.”

“Okay let’s not lose track on what we need to do Littlepip.” Vanessa said as she handed her friend a shotgun and a sniper rifle which were surprisingly in perfect condition. “Here you’ll need this more than I do.”

“How come you don’t use firearms?” Asked Littlepip.”You don’t seem to have a problem with using throwing knives, but you won’t use a gun?”

“I suck at aiming nought said.”

“Are you really that bad as shooting?”

“I’ll say this much. Don’t ever give me a gun unless you have a plan to use my bad aiming to your advantage, but I don’t mind using a shotgun.”

“Oh……..let’s get going.”

“Yeah let’s.”

(Engine Room)

“Hey don’t you think it’s a bit quiet out there?” Asked a Slaver shoveling a shovel full of coal into the fire of the engine.

“Yeah it is. A little too quiet if you ask me. I’m gonna go check it out, you keep the train going until we hit old Appaloosa.” The unicorn said as he open the door only to have his head blown off by Littlepip’s shotgun.

“OH SHIT!” He yelled as he was about to attack Littlepip with the shovel he had in his hooves. “You’re going to pay for that you little bitch!” Vanessa threw paintball at the earth pony causing him to go blind for the moment. This gave the human the chance to suplex the pony onto the metal floor.

“Answer me this shit head. Where does this train go to?” Vanessa asked as she held a knife that the pony’s throat. “And I be really quick about it if I were you, cause right now I’m a little trigger happy.”

“O-Old Appaloosa why?”

“What’s in Old Appaloosa?”

“You don’t want to know we’re turning this train around.” Said Littlepip.

“I-it’s a one way train, you can’t turn it around or anything.” Said the pinned down slaver.

“Does this train go anywhere else?” Asked Vanessa.

“Umm.” Said the slaver as he looks around.

“Hey my friend asked you a question idiot, so you better answer her.” Littlepip cocked her shotgun to make a point. “Or she’ll hand you over to me, and you wouldn’t like that.”

“Okay! there is one other place but… it overrun with monsters that act like chickens.”

“....F.M.L.”

“What? do you know what he's talking about?” Asked Littlepip.

“Yian Kut-ku’s.”

“A Yian what?”

“Annoying bird like dragons that I really hate to fight with, but they do have good materials for us to make weapons out of. Care to tell what’s in Old Appaloosa slaver?”

“What do you think?” He asked rolling his eyes at her.

“You do realize I could give you to my friend Littlepip and her shotgun right?”

“I’m a slaver right? And we’re going to Old Appaloosa. I’ll let you guess as to what’s there and why we’re going there with this many slaves.”  

“Really now?” Vanessa looked at her stable friend. “Littlepip we’re going to Old Appaloosa to free some slaves.”

“Your crazy! There no way you’ll get off the train let alone free anyone.”

“You clearly never met me before have you?”

“And you clearly never been through Old Appaloosa. Only two kinds of ponies get through that city, slaves and slavers.” The slaver pony then crossed his legs over his chest. “You might as well just shoot me now.”

“We’ll do that later, but for now you’re gonna help us get in.”

“And why would I do that? It either I die by you guys or I die when they find out I helped you get in ever way I see nothing in it for me.”

“If you help us you’ll live, but if you don’t I’ll kill you.”

“Yeah as some pony slave most likely.” The Slaver was making it clear he was not helping.

“Hm…...Hey Tom, do you have anyway to control this guy?” Tom just buzzed at her and flew off to find Samantha.

“I think that a no.” Said Littlepip.

“Really? I couldn’t tell seeing how he flew off.” Vanessa said sarcastically.

“So are you mares going to kill me or what?.” Asked the Slaver still sitting on the floor.

“Plan B, we use this guy as a puppet to get us in.”

“That not going to work.” Deadpans Littlepip.

“We won’t kill him, just use some mind control magic to control him.”

“I don’t have any spells like that, not only that but hardly anypony know that kind of magic anymore.”

“Geez you ponies really putting me in a bind here you know that?”

“Look this is the wasteland. Most ponies out here don’t expect to live past a day let alone a week. Not only that, but places like Old Appaloosa are the kind of place outlaws, bandits, and slavers go to drink get food and go back out to make other ponies lives a living hell. What we need to do is find somewhere else to go and I’d pick flying monsters over Old Appaloosa any day of the week.”

“Let me put this in terms you can understand. One, even though Samantha and I are good hunter’s. Taking on a place that is over runned by dragons with low gear and supplies is like handing a monkey a shotgun. Two we have injured ponies that can’t stand or fight due to the way they been treated, and even if we gave them our potions and stuff this train doesn’t have that much ammo or weapons to fight the monsters.”

“And saying we should go to Old Appaloosa where we’re just as likely to get shot at and get turned into slaves what you’re planing is going to get us all killed!”

“There is one other place…” Said the pony Slaver.

“......Didn’t I ask you if there were another place this train lead to?” Said Vanessa pressing her knife closer to the slavers throat.

“I know, but I was thinking it the only way I’ll get out of here alive… We can go through the Diamond Dog town.”

“Wait there’s a town named like that?”

“No way I hear they eat ponies!” Yelled Littlepip.

“You wanted a way out where we all don’t have to die I just gave you one. But we’ll need the other bodies of anypony you guys killed to get here.”

“Well it’s a good thing they’re a lot slavers and raider idiots on this train.”

“We might have to give them something more to get past, something alive.”

“Like what pray tell do we need to give to get past them?”

“The baby monsters in the back of the train or some of the slaves…”

Vanessa looked over at Littlepip who bit her own lips after hearing that. “Ok so we three options. Fight our way through a bunch of dragons, sneak our way through Appaloosa, or sell the baby Aptonoth’s so we can get past Diamond Dog town. I’m really wanna go with option two at the moment.”

“We should get Sam and Sunny in on this? They’ll want to know what going on.”

“Fair enough.”

(Moments later)

“So that’s pretty much it on what’s going on ladies. So what are your thoughts on the matter?” Asked Vanessa.

“I think we should go to this dog town it could be fun and maybe even get some supplies when we’re there.” Said Samantha with a smile and Tom on her head.

Sunny day looked like she was thinking. “If I remember right the train tracks from the Diamond dog town loop back on to this line then we can head to New Appaloosa from there.”

“You guys do realize we have to sell them babies right? You’re ok with that?”

“Not all of them, I can haggle them into taking three or four at the most and we can sell the other six once we get to New Appaloosa.” Said the Slaver pony.

“Who said you had a say in this?” Said Littlepip keeping the shotgun at the pony head.  

“Easy Littlepip. We still need him alive, unless he tries to do something stupid then you can shoot him.” Said Vanessa.

“As long as I get to live I don’t care if you even sell me out to the ponies who live in New Appaloosa.” Said the Slaver pony.

“Alright then.” Vanessa started to walk off towards the engine room. “Diamond Dog Town it is then.”

“We’re going to have to stop the train so we can change the tracks. Then put them back once we’ve past the junion.”  

“Okay than. Samantha hand over whatever potions you have and give them to any pony that needs them.”

“I kind of already did that and..” Samantha holds up two potions up in her hands. “This is all that left.”

Vanessa hands over her bag full of potions. “Not the one’s up front now get to it.”

Samantha sighed as she took the other bag and started her long walk back through the train carts.

“Just to let you know if the Diamond dogs want one of the slaves you should really just let them have one. It could be trouble if you say they can’t have one.” Said the Slaver.

“We’ll see how things turn out once we get there, but until will just focus on taking care of any of the injured ponies on the train.”

“Your the boss.” Said the Slaver pony as he go back to drive the train.

“Yeah……..I’m the boss.”

“I don’t know how to feel about this, is it normal for a pony to just change sides like that?.” Asked Littlepip.

“Most ponies do if it means they live longer.” Said Sunny Day as she reads the Monster Hunter's handbook. “Don’t forget this is the wastelands. It hard to making a living out here let alone live.”

“That and survival of the fittest.” Added Vanessa.

“I’m going to keep an eye on him.” Said Littlepip as she go after him.

“To bad he’s a slaver he a looker.” Said Sunny Day with a half smile.

“Seriously?”

“This is the wastelands you can’t be picky.”

“Good point. I’m gonna check on Littlepip, you okay with staying here in the engine room?”

“Go get her tiger.” Sunny Day smiles after saying that.

“Okay you really gotta stop hanging around Samantha.”

“Why I don’t know what you’re talking about?” Said Sunny with a giggle. Vanessa didn’t say anything but just turned around and walked off towards where Littlepip was going.

        Outside of the train on a mountain a few yards away. Was another human wearing a black, yellow, and red outfit that looked like it was made in neighpon. Standing next to a large ape like monster with horns sticking out of the sides of it head.

“So there are other humans then myself that came to this place.” Amanda said as she hopped back onto her Rajang. “And the worst part is I know one of them.” Her partner Raj gave her a smug look as if he was saying he wants to fight them.

“Not yet buddy, let’s just follow them and see how things turn out. We might need their aid for when we go to Old Appaloosa to free the slaves in that town.”

“Before something finds that town and get a free meal.” Said a brown color pegasus with orange color mane and two guns strapped to his side.

“Oh right, I almost forgot that you were here Calamity.”

“Forgot? We’ve been traveling for weeks how can you forget about me?”

“You mean forget how you shooting at me when you thought I was a super mutant trying to attack that carvan you were protecting?”

“I said I was sorry!”

“And I forgive you for that right after Raj volleyball you out of the air like fly.”

“I still don’t know how you can trust that thing, how do you know it won’t eat you in your sleep?”

“If Raj wanted to eat me he would of done so by now, and the reason why I trust him was because I saved his ass from a blind Deviljho and the Steel Rangers.”

“You mean the black one with the scars on it face? Still don’t know how you drove that thing off.”

“It’s not that hard to do if throw a grenade down it’s throat. Still I wish I had a shock trap so I could kill and use it parts to make another set of armor.”

“Your crazy, killing them is one thing but making armor out of them?”

“Crazy I maybe, but they have good armor that’s pretty useful. Along with weapons you make out it.”

“At least it wasn’t a Diablos and a Monoblos. That could’ve been bad.”

“You mean the one’s that attacked New Appaloosa a week ago?”

“That the one’s.”

“Well it’s a good thing I took them up on that offer they gave me after I took that job.”

“Still I don’t understand how you turned those parts into weapons?”

“You know those two minotaur brothers that works with the science and medical department of New Appaloosa?”

“What about em?”

“Where did you think I got most of my supplies and gear from, they may not be as strong as other minotaurs, but they make one hell of a good blacksmiths.” Raj used his tail to lift Calamity onto his back where Amanda was on. “Now hang on we’re going to Diamond Dog Town! They still owe me after saving their town from Molten Tigrex the other day.”

“You know I hate this!”

“Too bad cause this how we roll!” With a kick to Raj’s side. The rajang coat started to spark with electricity and runs off to where the train was head off towards to town.

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