Death. this was the only thing I thought will be outside of the massive Stable 154 door, that's what I thought will be outside of Twilight Camp's walls, that's what I thought made Equestria what it is... I never was so right in my entire life. When death is the only thing you see and feel, how can you have room for other emotions when only pain and suffering is what this wastes have to offer? When everything collapses on itself, when hope and trust is even more sparse then the already precious clean water and fresh food, where you can claim other's life with the pull of a trigger, where life itself... Of a beast or people, good or bad, isn't more valueable then a pile of bottle caps, a world that lacks someone to guide you through the horrors and darkness that lurks around you, where a hero can be killed as easily... Where a flame can be extingiushed in matters of seconds... Sometimes it is hard to imagine that life wasn't like this before the bombs fell, sometimes you want to believe it... That this wasn't the way of people to live their lives before the war... But this wasteland will show you how much of a far reality it was...

Cannibals... The camp I desperatly hoped will be a camp of happy ponies... Is a band of cannibals feasting on pony flesh... They were eating pony remains... I felt like throwing up, but I had nothing to puke, I hadn't ate anything solid for over a month! And seeing them eating pony flesh... This was just sick! I focused my vision on what looked like a few imprisoned ponies, my right robotic eye zoomed in and gave me a clearer picture of the situation... Five prisoners, ten or so cannibal ponies, and one armed pegasus with a craving to stop them.

"What the Fuck is Wrong with you?!" I screamed, sliding into S.A.T.S and placing a shot to the head of three of the cannibals, excuting the spell and hitting every single one of them, this battle saddle was precise.

I recalled it had a HUD visor, pressing on a side-button on my helmet the visor popped out, a 3D E.F.S right infront of my very eyes, and colloring my actual tragets with red and yellow--This is usefull.

"The fuck?" A cannibal frowned and looked at his three friends turning into corpses, all of them scattered and some ran straight to their weapons, mostly were melee and blunt weapons, I could make out a gun or two.

"Die!!! Die! Die! Die!" I screamed over and over again, walking and emptying shell after shell into each cannibal I could see within my line of sight, shredding two cannibals that were too close to each other into piles of bloodied meat and guts, shifting target and stopping for a second to let the barrels cool down a bit, then biting so hard on the muzzle trigger I could feel a tooth breaking, five down-- Seven left.

"Get your weapons! A fucking crazy pony's here!" one screamed beyoned my roaring battle saddle, I turned to my left and shredded another cannibal pony who tried to sneak up on me while I was busy with his now-dead friends, shifting to another target, shooting, one less red bar, repeat.

Six left.

BANG

Five left.

BANG

Four left.

BANG BANG

Two...

BANG

"Come out and face your fucking fate!" I called out, moving my gaze about and looking for anything that looks like a big pile of shit with legs..

"Please don't kill me! Please.." He whimpered from behined me, I spun around and looked at my 3D E.F.S HUD, he was straight infront of me, but an overturned caravan was between us, his bar was blue though..

"Show yourself" I frowned, my gaze was more on the red bar on the visor then at the actual location of him, he soon turned around the caravan, a tint of blue outline sorrounded his brownish body thanks to my battle saddle's visor.

"Please.. Please spare me.. I beg you.." The cannibal shook in fear like crazy, whimpering and pleading.

I walked slowly toward him, he lowered his head and bowed infront of me..I stepped on his neck with a forehoof and forced his head down on the muddy ground, he coughed from the mud and tried to rise up, but I forced my weight down in him, he started to buck his hindlegs and sturggled for air.

"You got two choices: One is to die a cannibal, the second is to change your fucking life the other way around and help everypony you come across" I whispered "And never ever again, eat pony meat" I hissed at him, leaning on my forehoof even more "And never, ever.. EVER, kill innocents, only in self-defense.." I added as I raised my hoof from him and let him breath.

"Thank you.." The cannibal pony panted and looked at me.. "But.. I never ate pony meat.. I'm not a cannibal.. They were about to eat me..." The pony said between pants.

"Don't try and lie to me.." I hissed, looking at the cage the captives were held, they were all terrifyed from me even more then they were from the cannibals..as I advanced toward the cage they stacked at the far end of it away from me, probably out of my cyborg-ness, or probably because the bloodbath I just made infront of them.

I heard behined me the pony starting to get, I bucked the cage's lock and it fryed open as I walked away from it, letting the captives get out without me interfering them, I sat on my haunches a few meters away and looked at them, waiting for them to get out.

Most of them hasitated to even step toward me, but one mare green unicorn with silver mane did walked out the cage slowly and then ran toward the pony lying on the mud, he really wasn't a cannibal after all.. My heart flinched as I wanted to buck myself to death, I just fucking hurt an innocent pony..

"Did they hurt you?.." Te green unicorn mare asked the mud-covered pony.

"No.. I'm fine.." I barely heard him whisper weakly, mostly out of my new robotic 'perception' implents I guess...

"Let's get out of here before this crazy cyborg kills us too.." The green unicorn mare whispered, eyeing me in fright.

"He won't.. He isn't that type of killer.." The mud-covered pony replied warmly as he got up and toward me, the green unicorn tried to hold him back but he shook her off. "Thank you".

"Was nothing.." I said with a dismissive nod.

"It means the world to us, there's anything I can do for you?" The mud-covered pony asked.

"Yeah, keep yourself out of danger" I said sarcasticly, looking at him and retracting my HUD visor, revaling my robotic eye to him, "Look, sorry 'bout my reaction.." I started.

He looked a bit shocked from my eye, but quickly recovered "No worries, as long as I'm in one piece I don't mind getting a bit dirty.." the earth pony laughed weakly.

Wow this is an awkward conversation.

"Where are you guys from, where were you heading?" I asked, wanting to know if there's more ponies in need.

"We were heading to TenPony Tower" The pony said, my eyes lit up and I couldn't believe the odds of them going to where I was heading.

"Really? This is where I was heading!" I exclaimed, standing up out of excitment.

"Yeah.. Were heading there. This road looks too dangerous to stay on, so we'll head east toward Manehatten, or new Appleloosa if we'd be on the right road" the pony added, of course it was too good to be true..

"Oh, well.. Never mind" I said, turning my back to him and sitting on my haunches again, looking about.

"Name's Straw, nice to meet you" He said, I didn't even looked at him as I activated the visor, a long beep sounded as the visor's E.F.S lit up again.

"Well, thank you anyways" Straw said as I heard his hoof steps walking away from me, I looked at the cage and saw it was empty already.. Probably sneaked away while I was talking.

I suddenly started to cough a very worrying cough, filled with yellow-brown phlegm.

"Are you alright?" The green unicorn mare asked me, I turned my head around and nodded weakly, not saying anything. "That dosen't sound so good, we should check you out" the green unicorn mare said.

"I'm fine, just.. Hust take care of yourself" I said, getting up and moving toward one of the cannibals bodies and started looting him, his cloths were useless, some Caps, an old rusty knife and a box of painkillers.

"I think he's sick, and rather in a physical form" The green unicorn mare whispered to Straw.

"I know he's sick, probably Rad-Sickness.. But I'll wait a bit to be sure before we do anything" Straw whispered at the mare, it's really hard to un-hear them with this cyborg-hearing Sky Fighter added to me.

"What? We're not going with him!" The green mare hissed, good thing my ears are inside the helmet, so they can't see them perked up and listening to them... Wait, the helmet have ear holes.. Shit..

"Can you shoot a gun Melody?" Straw asked sarcasticly.

"Shut up Straw.." Melody frowned a bit louder.

"Emm, guys.. What are you doing?" I turned around and looked at Straw and Melody.

"Talking in private, do you mind?" Melody hissed at me, then her features went from angry to worried as she realized she was talking to the armed cyborg-pony.

I rolled my eyes in a 'Whatever' fashion and turned my back to them again.

"What if he's from the Steel Rangers? Then we're screwed!" Melody asked Straw, I could still hear them but they didn't seem to notice that yet.

"If he was from the Steel Ranger then he wasn't going to stop here and talk, he'll be going toward another selfish mission or something" Straw countered a bit louder.

"Lower your fucking voice Straw! Look at his robotic leg!.. It's Steel Ranger technology!" Melody whinned.

"So? He might be an Outcast!" Straw countered again.

"Yeah right, that's beyoned their domain, they won't be here unless they have some scavenging going on" Melody said dismissivly.

"Look, he saved us from getting eaten alive, let's help him to get to TenPony Tower, who knows? Maybe he'll help us to get their in one piece too!" Straw offered.

"Like that's going to happen" Melody countered, well enough of their little chat.

"Guys, I can hear you.." I turned around and took off my helmet, my robotic eye visible again and creeping out Melody.

"Oh, so you want to come with us to TenPony Tower?" Straw asked, Melody tried to hold him back from saying it, they weren't a really supporting couple...

"Yeah, but I don't think you guys have anything to search there. if the road is as dangerous as you told me, I prefer to go alone" I said, Melody's muzzle broke into a grin.

"So how're you going to get there?" Straw challenged me.

"I'll figure out a way" I replied as I got my helmet back on my head and walked away.

"Happy Melody?.." Straw's voice was barely audible beyond the hill I walked down from.

"Straw.. Com'on.." Melody sounded guilty, "Horseapples.. H-hey! Robo-pony!.."

"What?" I asked, my ears perking up to my new nickname, Melody popped out up the hill and walked closer to me, but keeping her distance away a good five or six meters.

"Look.. Sorry about that, but we need to get to TenPony Tower too, we need your help and you helped us alot already.. But we need somepony to guard us, and we know you want to get there too." Melody's gaze fell down as she dugged a little hole in the ground with her forehoof.

"Not personal, but I do better on my own" I countered and turned around to my way.

"Fine! we'll pay you!" Melody exclaimed.

I turned around and retracted my visor with a tap of my hoof on the helmet, my one ponified eye frowning at her and she was pretty nevrous from my other eye. "I'm not after fucking Caps, I'm not a bounty hunter or a rentable guard" I hissed, she took a step backwards... guess that I'm a monster not just from the outside..

"Urrrgghh... I get it, you are the 'big strong pony' that wants to be a loner, but we both got something the other needs, so let's just give it a try alright?" Melody offered.

"No" I replied.

"Why not?" Melody looked confused but eager to know.

"Because I have enough blood on my hooves already, I've already promised somepony I cared for that I'll keep them safe and sound, but they are now dead and I got stuck.. Like this" I whispered as I showed her my robo-leg and the spine-like implent on my neck, my one natural eye starting to form tears.

"I'm.. I'm sorry.." Melody stammered.

"I'm not ready to promise more good ponies I'll keep them safe, and then watch them die a horrible death just for me to hop to the next group and see the same thing happen to them all over again" I said less calmly, muzzle crooked and hooves shaking.

"I'm sorry.. I didn't knew" Melody's gaze was now down in shame, but when her face looked up she looked stunned.. "A-A-Are you a pegasus?" she barely said, I looked back over my shoulder and saw my two wings standing up in anger.

"Yes, any problem with that?" I hissed.

"N-N-N-No! not at all!.." Melody looked frightened, more of the idea that I'm armed and not-so-mentally-stable then the fact I'm a pegasus.

"Good, but if you want to help me in any way, do you got any healing supplies?" I asked more politly, folding my wings on my sides and undrafting my battle saddle's guns, a cool little feature this battle saddle's version had..

"Y-Yeah.. We got some healing potions, but no anti-radiation healing equipment though.."

"Perfect, and I got a good idea for transportation" I grinned slightly, getting a nervous weak smile from Melody.

I repeated my steps back to the Sky-wagon I slept inside a few good hours ago, after a while I got there much more faster then I expected, it looked pretty damaged but I think I can make it work, it may be my proffesion but I'm not limited to guns only.

I got to work and saw that it was shaped better then it looked on first inspection, it had a working generator, the engine wasn't too bad, and the hull was intact... Mostly... It was just needed to be straped to a pegasus and to maintain it's pretty busted suspension, and something I wasn't familiar with but it looked damaged even to me, I got out some gears and my multi-tool and reinforced the suspension with some scrap I had in my utility barding, after a good hour and a half I was covered in grease and dirt, but it was worth it... Now let's test this baby!

I straped myself to the front and then tried to flap my wings, then I remembered I haven't healed my wing yet..should've thought about that sooner, but the wagon worked at least! it could be started up and hovered a hoof's lentgh above the ground, just need to pull it upwards.. I can always just pull it on the road and get there like this..

Bad idea! Another bad idea!.. It weighted like a fucking unicorn-size stable generator.. After unstraping myself and making sure I didn't dislocated my shoulders and ribcage from trying to pull it so quickly, I made my way back to Straw and Melody, who for my very surprise followed me here and looked at me all this time working through a bush.

"W-wh.. Did you guys watched me?" I asked, getting an amused grin from Melody and a nod from Straw. "And you haven't thought to help me?" I asked again, getting a head shake from Melody and a grumped face from Straw...well, they enjoyed me breaking my back..litteraly.

"It was pretty funny to see you struggle with that wagon, though you are probably a magician for repearing this kind of damage" Melody walked beside me and brushed her tail against my face, making me spit so I won't swallow any hairs after her tail touched my mouth , though the smell of her tail was the real reason..

"I tried to help but Melody here is a rather strong unicorn.." Straw countered my suspicious look.

"Like you didn't enjoyed it you little shit" Melody giggled at Straw's blushing.

"What happened between you two?" I asked, Straw blushed even more as Melody just walked with her tail up high..

Oh Goddesses... Please don't tell me they did that.. Looks like everypony in this wastes is having this kind of relationship other then me, my heart flinched when I remembered how eager Rose was for her first time.. She never got it after all..Well, enough self-pity, I got two ponies to help.

"So.. You sure it's gonna work?" Straw looked unsure about me hauling them inside a two-century-old Sky-wagon.

"Sure?.. Nope, not at all" I answered with a sarcastic smirk.

"Oh.. Well.." Straw mumbled barely.

"Relax, I just need to fix up my wing, though this is the problem" I assured them both after Melody looked at me worried.

"Not at all, I wanted to keep it for a critical injury: Looks like this is it" Melody replied as her horn glew bright green, a syringe popped out from her side-saddle and she injected it on my hoof before I could do anything.

"What was that?" I flung the sryinge away from me, but the contents inside it were already in my blood stream.

"A healing syringe, just like a healing potion but smaller and less effective" Melody smiled weakly.

My wing's base became a bit warm and after moving my armor a bit, my wings looked as good as it could be.. "Thank you.. I guess"

"The least we can do for returning the favor" Straw replied as he checked out the Sky-wagon.

"What favor?" I blinked sheepishly, re-adjusting my battle saddle's armor for letting my wings to strech out freely.

Melody rolled her eyes and chuckled weakly "For not getting eaten, nothing too serious" she said sarcasticly.

"Again: It was nothing" I said with a dismissive wave of my hoof, moving my armor slightly on my back and moving toward the Sky-wagon. After straping myself back and giving a few test flaps with my wings, I was ready to take off, just need Straw and Melody to board up.

"So.. We just get inside and wish you won't drop us?" Melody looked worried even more then earlier.

"Pretty much" I smirked, looking over my shoulder and watching Straw checking the Sky-wagon's abillity to hold him. "Don't worry, just brace yourself before I'm taking off, it can get a bit overwhelming for non-flyers like you" I added.

"Oh all bow infront of the mighty pegasus..." Melody said in a mocking voice as she embarked on the Sky-wagon, apperantly there's a transport section inside they can sit comfortably, and I slept an entire night on the unbareable metal floor on the back of the cargo section.. I'm not a smart pony..

"You ready? I'm taking off now!" I said, giving a gentle buck to the ignition behined me, it had a saftey feature so I won't buck it mid-air.

"Shoot!" Straw called out, I flapped my wings once and the Sky-wagon took off behined me, flying in tow.

I felt the breeze in my face and the wind's whistle in my ears, enjoying the familliar sensation I never thought I'll miss from the stable's simulation, we had a chamber for flying, it was a giant fan-like rotor infront of you that sends air against you while you're flying forward, and currently the air felt just like that chamber, cold and breezy.

After looking over my shoulder I saw both Straw and Melody holding the seats like crazy and looking like they're suffering a vertigo attack, it was pretty amusing I have to admit.

"What happened? Can't bow infront of the mighty pegasus anymore?" I taunted them.

"F-F-Fuck off!" Melody barely said over her hyperventilation. I smirked at that, it was so funny to see them both so scared from something so liberating and fun.

"Relax, I'll pick off the pace" I assured them as I flew slower, and the Sky-wagon followed accordingly.

"Celestia's mercy, how the hay you pegasi like flying?" Melody whinned.

I snickered at that, all the non-pegasi's first fly with a pegasi is always like this, and it never gets old to see them react like this, it's so common for them to get a vertigo attack... Rose's first time in the flying simulation was simillar to Straw's and Melody's reaction, she just froze in panic and mumbled even an hour after the simulation was over..

"The view is pretty calming though.." Straw said nervously.

"Never flew before eh?" I asked sarcasticly.

"So obvious?" Straw chuckled back.

"That's normal for ponies like you, so don't be ashamed.. Though it'll never get old to see that happen" I explained.

"If I'll say you're a dick, you'll drop us on the spot, right?" Melody stammered.

"Wanna check?" I challenged her, flapping my wings stronger and picking up the pace a bit.

"N-No!.. I'm.. I'm good.." Straw's voice was barely audible beyond the wind's whistle.

I could see the same giant city I saw from the eastern Outcast's building, but it was wierd because the building itself dissapeared after I lost consciousness, maybe I'm just losing my mind? Then I looked behined me and saw something I can't believe I haven't noticed before--A flying city.. Or, at least that's how it looked like, it was a huge flying airship with rotors on the top, it could easily house hundred Vultures with place to spare..it had giant cannons on both sides, and alot of after-burners on the buttom, even for Shrapnel and his speed it'll take hours to fly around... It was massive..

I heard talking behined me, but the giant airship stunned me in such way I couldn't explain...everything was focused on the airship, a writing on the side of it read 'Eastern Outcasts base'.. The Outcast base is a flying airship?!.. That's why I didn't saw it after I regained consiousness?

"Hi!.. We're falling down!" a far voice sounded from behined me, I snapped out of my day-dream and realized we were indeed bleeding altitude, I flapped my wings rather panickly and flew upwards, gaining height again.

"What the fuck.." Melody's voice was weak and terrified.

"Everything's alright there?" Straw's voice asked.

"Yeah.. Yeah.." I babbled.

"What happened?"

"It's... Nothing really" I mumbled, still confused from what happened a second ago.

Melody's panicked breaths were audible even from the Sky-wagon's straps, Straw whispered something to her, I didn't even looked behined me.. I felt bad for making them panic like that. Something there was.. Sinister..

"Can you get us down please?" Straw asked weakly, I nodded and flew lower to the ground for a while in search for a place to land, after a few seconds we landed and Straw and Melody got out from the transport section, they were dizzy and looked like the vertigo attack is overwhelming them now.

"Thank you for the ride.. We know how to get to our destination from here" Straw said between breaths.

"Sure?.. I don't mind hauling you a few more kilometers--"

"No!.. No!.. I'm not stepping into that death trap ever again!.." Melody screamed in panic, I winced at the sudden high-pitch sound she made.

"Sorry, I was... Thinking about something.."

I lied.

"Well, thank you for your help.. TenPony Tower is directly West-South West from here, three days trot actually" Straw pointed toward the giant city I saw, if I need to walk through there..

"Through that ghost town?" I asked doubtly.

"What.. You're new to the wastes? Of course you need to cross Manehatten!" Straw said simply.

"Well, guess I haven't mentioned that yet.. But I'm actually pretty new to this world.. I was born in a Stable.." I admitted.

Straw gave me a gentle buck on the shoulder "Nice joke bro" , not buying it.

"I'm serious, I'm from Stable 154" I said, opening the locking mechanisem on my battle saddle and letting it slide off of me, revealing my Stable barding with the numbers '154' on the back and on the collar.

"Woah.. A real stable dweller.. Hust like the 'LightBringer'!" Melody looked excited.

"Hmm, seems like everypony's a fan of her eh?" I said sarcasticly.

"Duh.. She gave us back the sun!" Melody answered coldly.

"A fitting name.. But I'm not a hero or anything, I just do things like I was taught they were supposed to be" I replied.

"That's what the LightBringer said, and look at her now-- She is a goddess!" Straw stopped me.

"Yeah well, I'm not a god of any sort, and last time I checked--I'm half a robot.. So I doubt I can be a god" I countered.

"How'd you became a robot?.. You were born like that?" Melody looked interested.

"No, I was from the northern Outcasts a short time ago, I was injured criticlly-- Thus I'm a cyborg, I was trying to help my friends.. They're now dead..." I said.

"What's your name?" Melody asked.. Haven't I told them that yet?!

"Gu-Gunner.. Didn't I told that already?" I asked, they both shook their heads in unison.

"Well Gunner, it was a pleasure to meet you, but I guess this is where we part ways" Straw raised his hoof for a shake.

I raised my hoof and shook it gently, getting a smile from Straw as Melody walked away slowly. "I better be off then, TenPony Tower is that way right?" I pointed toward what my PipBuck told me was between West and South-West.

Straw nodded his head "Yup."

I grabbed my battle saddle and placed it ontop of me, locking it in place and checking if the guns are loaded. I used quite alot 5.56 earlier on the cannibals, so I'm practicly down to regular assault rifle ammo such as 7.62x39 and 7.62x51 that don't match this kind of battle saddle, I do got those wierd bullets that looks like they are too big for pistols but too small for conventional assault rifle or even a carbine... Maybe a kind of wasteland SMG?.. Or even some kind of futile ammo for turrets like back at Storm's lab?..

"Take care of yourselves now" I said and gave a little friendly salute with a hoof as I took off, Straw and Melody looked at me gaining speed and moving ahead toward Manehatten.

After a few minutes I activated the visor to see the full potential of the HUD's E.F.S.. So pretty basic, it's  the E.F.S I'm familliar with but this version has a little mini-map at the top left corner, targets are highlighted with yellow and red through the visor itself, and aim-assist for when S.A.T.S is recharging... Can't say it's not usefull, plus I can twist the muzzle-trigger to switch between full-auto and burst-fire... It feels like a pretty imaginary weapon actually... So many other options aswell--Night vision? Echo-location? Safety feature on the muzzle-trigger?.. I think it's not a very common weapon..I hope so. It isn't a very fun weapon to fight against I presume: It feels so unfair and over-designed, not a single flaw! Well, it does weight a bit but other then that it's just flawless! Whoever designed it thought about everything, and I mean everything, apperantly the helmet's wiring disconnected mid-battle but it still worked just fine! The guns are in prestine condition, my guess is it's even from the pre-war era!.. It's an anthic, a relic... This wasn't the kind of techonoloy the Steel-Rangers are after? I got back to reality just before I crushed into a buidling.. Apperantly I was already in Manehatten.. I circled around some buildings and heard gunfire from below, after looking about I saw two gangs trading post-shots.. They both didn't looked nice but I wanted to stop them before anything turns too bloody. I landed in the middle of the street between the two groups, they stopped firing and looked at me, my robotic hind-leg caught their attention.

"Can I know what's wrong?" I said from the top of my lungs, making sure both of the groups heard me, disconnecting myself from the Sky-wagon and cocking my battle saddle.

"Not yer business!" a unicorn screamed from the group to my left, from the looks I got from his group I already starting to dislike them all.

"Sorry didn't heard you! Speak up!" I told the unicorn, he levitated an old .308 sniper rifle next to him.

"None of yer goddesses damned business, punk!" The same unicorn said and flung his .308 barrel at my general direction.

"That's what I thought" I said as I used my aim-assist to shoot his .308 out of his levitation field and to the ground, his group aimed at me their weapons and looked angry even more then before.

"Now, what's this all about?" I shouted again, this time alot more intimidating.

"Those fuckers ambushed us!" A unicorn from my right said, the smaller group.

"Fuck we didn't! You attacked us.." An earth pony from the larger group retorted before I cut him with a gunshot to the air.

"Stop it! Both of you! I have no problem tearing through you all without asking questions, please don't make me do that!" I frowned, looking at them all, the bigger group to my left counted eleven ponies that were all yellow on my visor, and the smaller group was five and mostly passive. I won't shoot yet at any of the groups..

"Like who you are.." Another unicorn from my left chuckled, his whole group followed as they all bursted out laughing.

I could see behined them all that it was their camp... And they had captives! This is my limit right here!.

I slid into S.A.T.S and placed a shot to one of the raider's unicorn head, three to his chest, and one to his left forehoof, I excuted the spell and watched his eye getting blown out of his eye-hole, two of the three bullets took out chunks of his torso clean off, and the final bullet dislocated his whole left leg.

"Open fire!" one raider screamed as I took cover behined an old blue mail box, bullets whizzed by me and pinned me down in my hiding place, I tried to peak but I just couldn't.. Wish I was a unicorn...

I then looked at the small group of five looking scared and wounded, they were outnumbered to those pshycos.. And they would've been killed if I wasn't here interupting them!. .I motioned with a hoof to one of the unicorns to catch his attention and mouthed him 'help'.

Quickly after he realized that and nodded his head, "Supresive!" levitating an SMG above him and shooting to cover me, the raiders ducked for cover as I vaulted over the mail box and ran toward the raiders, shooting at them and helping the supresive fire even more, I jumped above the makeshift barricade and saw three raiders looking at me surprised, I gunned down one of them before he could even blink, the second charged me with a knife in hs mouth as the third got out of sight, I turned around and bashed the battle saddle's barrel in his forehead, hearing something cracking as he fell limp at my hooves, I quick-checked my E.F.S and saw there are seven more red dots.. Where is the eight one?

"Die bitch!!" A voice screamed behined me as I saw an earth pony with a giant battle saddle ontop of him, a minigun in each side that could easily fuck me up for good... The quad-barrels started spinning as they turned a bit red and bullets started pouring out of it in my direction, I ducked behined a random metal crate that was used as a seat next to a cooking fire, the metal started to heat up from the bullets and my ears rang unbareably, I heard the gunshots getting closer each second..in a moment he'll be ontop of me, spraying me to death until there's a Gunner-stain on the ground. Suddenly the barrage stopped, I peaked my head and saw the miniguns smoking heavily, overheated.

"Now's my turn!" I got up and cocked the battle saddle, the minigun pony gulped nervously and I could hear a liquid stream from his direction, quickly after a pool of urine covered his hooves..

Shoot the fucker! End him before he's able to gun you down!

I just looked at him, not doing anything as he clenched his eyes and lowered his head, accepting his faith. I walked closer to him but stopped when his body got shredded with bullets from my right side, the SMG pony sprayed at the dead body until the mag was empty.

"No time for mercy now!" He shouted as he got out of sight, the sound of an empty mag dropping to the ground was heard.

A little bit excesive for my taste, but kill to stay alive first, question things after.

I really wished it was 'ask first then shoot'. But that didn't worked out very well. I heard a loud roaring of a sniper rifle from above me, the whole camp was wagons and carriages stacked and reinforced in a clustered maze, so he could be excatly above me and I'll need to spend hours to find a way to him, a quick peak on my E.F.S revealed there are four red dot, time to decrease it fruther.

I stepped around a corner and saw two raiders behined cover, taking post shots at what I imagined was the smaller group.

"R'loading! Covah mah ass!" One of them shouted as he ducked and took out an empty mag, levitating a fresh one from his vest, he had a semi-auto assault rifle, M14 for my knowledge, uses 5.56, fires 400 rounds per minute, jam chance is low.. Yeah--He's screwed and I'm going to get a free gun.

"How about me covering you?" I taunted, his eyes snatched at me for a second, then he raised his head slowly in horror, realizing who I was, I emptied fifteen rounds at him as the other took cover behined the first's body, I continued mutialting the body more, and after two seconds I heard the other raider screaming in agony as the bullets teared through him aswell. I stopped firing after a few seconds, panting heavily as I let the barrels cool down, my blurred vision started to focus out.. Another rage attack.. I better take care of that before it takes my sanity away.. I still got 2 dots on my E.F.S, but I counted only eight bodies, somepony here decided to hide.

I tried to move around carefully as something stole my attention completly-- A blue grenade, it was just lying there on what looked like an improvised weapons bench, I took it and checked if it's damaged: It was fully operational. I placed the grenade in my utility barding and moved toward the two dots on my E.F.S, the second I peaked my head I was greeted with gunshots, I hugged the wall and breath a few deep breaths, shutting my eyes and trying to hear anything beyond the gunshots.

I heard an empty chamber clicks, followed by talking, but the automatic fire was still present, and still pinning me down, I reached to my utility barding and held the grenade close to my chest, breathing heavily and gathering all focus I could use to my hooves, I held the grenade with my forehooves and held the pin in my teeth, the gunshots ended a few seconds after, I bit the pin off the grenade and moved around the corner, throwing my hoof forward and leaving the greande in the proccess.

"Grenade!!" One screamed as I took cover behined the corner once again, covering my ears and head with my forehooves and clenching my eyes shut, waiting for the explosion.

Nothing.

"What?.." I moved around the corner, and saw both of the raiders bodies lying on the ground, twitching.

Did the grenade did that? How? What happened? I had so many questions, but I still knew there was another raider that even E.F.S can't spot, I counted eleven raiders, but only ten bodies.. I undrafted my battle saddle again and looked around.

"Go fuck yourself!"

Was heard from the smaller group direction, I trotted my way back through the maze of a camp, just to see the smaller group bucking and humilliating a raider, why wasn't he spotted on my PipBuck's Eyes-Forward Sparkle?

"Calm down.. Easy there, he can't do anything anymore.." I tried to calm the situation down, not wanting anymore bloodshed.

Three of the ponies went into battle position and aimed their weapons at me, I blinked in confusion--I just helped them!

"Stay back! I'm warning ya!" A mare unicorn with a hunting shotgun said, turning suddenly yellow on my E.F.S

"I've just helped you out!" I retorted, taking a step toward them and hearing them all cocking their guns in intimidation.

"So?" An earth pony with one assaul rifle on his battle saddle asked me, raising an eyebrow.

"So?! I fucking killed seven or eight raiders to help your sorry asses! I risked my own life!" I frowned.

"Umm... This is the wasteland, it dosen't work this way" the third pony said, the male unicorn with the SMG.

"Un-fucking-believeable..." I muttered to myself, watching the three of them crowning me.

"Guess he's worth at least five, six maybe.." The earth pony said to himself as he looked at me.

"Six what?" I turned my head toward him, getting a weak and wicked smile from him.

"Six grand of course! You look pretty strong though, maybe Six fifty.."

"Are you fucking slavers?" I screamed, using all of my power to force my wings down.

"Nooo... But we are traders, new Appleloosa have something we want, and you'll cover the price just fine" The earth pony smiled even more.

"You think that I'll just let you take me hostage?" I asked sarcasticly.

"Unless you think you can take us all" The mare countered.

I pressed the side button on my helmet and revealed them my robo-eye, they all took a step backwards in panic, then I bucked my battle saddle, causing it to draft again, earning more horror on their faces.

"Pretty sure I can.." I said in a wondering-like tone.

"Wait.. We don't need to do things we'll regret.." the SMG unicorn tried to say.

"Hmmm... Guess I'll probably regret that tommorow morning, but right now? I have no problem tearing through you just like I did to those raiders!" I warned them.

A young mare pushed the two of them aside "What are you doing? We didn't meant to aggravate you, please excuse my friends. Do you need any supplies for your trip?"

"No, I hope I won't see you guys again, the second time I see you I won't be nice" I hissed, turning around and walking away toward my Sky-wagon.

"Happy guys? Almost got killed by a fucking robot!" The young mare screamed at her friends behined me, I attached myself to the Sky-wagon and checked my PipBuck's sorting spell.

"Relax, I doubt he'll do anything, besides, if he'll kill us the LightBringer society'll fuck him up for good!" the earth pony exclaimed.

"He was about to fuck you up a second ago! Don't wave your balls infront of the RadRoach if you want to keep them, remember!" The young mare said, I smirked at her creative phrase.

"Com'on, Shield's injured, he needs medical attention so let's move out" the SMG unicorn said, my head perked to his words, they had injured ponies!

Wait... There are still captives inside the camp!..

I disconnected from the Sky-wagon and bombed through the debris of the ghost-town, entering the camp and avioding objects inside it, looking for anything that still moves. I checked my E.F.S and saw nothing, right--can't see non-hostile. I moved around and kept an eye for anything that I can scavenge, or more important: somepony that needs help.

After roaming inside the camp for what felt like hours, I decided that If I didn't found anypony that needs help, they already killed their captives in the attack.. I turned around and bumped my head in a wall, my helmet triggered the echo-location unintentionally, and I could see heat-signatures not so far away from me, pony-shaped heat-signatures!

I ran through the maze and finally found the three captives I could see from the outside...I circled around the whole camp to find them in the most exposed place... Dosen't matter, I helped them eventually, I bucked the lock of one of the cages with my robo-leg, frying it open and getting a horrified expression from the captives inside, there were two mares and a stallion inside this cage nd two more mares in another cage... I don't want to know why there are more mares then stallions.

"You're free, I won't hurt, I promise" I said weakly, not removing my visor to not make them panic even more, they all hesitated to even move, they were scared from me... I undrafted my guns and went to open the second cage, bucking him twice and breaking the lock.

"Th-thank you.." one of the mares said, I nodded with a smile, hopefully it was visible behined the visor... I helped them to get up and checked on them if they were injured, they were mostly healthy though neglacted, filthy and abused.

"I have a Sky-wagon outside of here, I can bring you back to your homes with no problem, just follow me. If anypony can't walk, please tell me now, I just want to help" I told them in the most friendly voice I could make, though it's hard after whatever I've been through.

"They-they... They killed him.. Right infront of me!... R-Right... Right infront of me!" The stallion mumbled, one of the mares tried to comfort him, but he was shaking and looked like he already saw hell.

I walked toward him to help him and stand up, but the mare stopped me with a hoof "I got him.. I got him.."

"Can he walk?" I asked, looking at the three more mares barely walking but still mobile.

"Yeah, he can walk, I'll just need to help him.." The mare who comforted him replied.

"Where are you from?" I asked again, scorlling on my PipBuck's sorting spell to check my ammo, barely anything that fits this battle saddle.

"We're nomads, we don't have a camp or a settlement" one of the mares told me.

"Looks like you'll get to come to TenPony Tower with me then" I replied with a smile.

"But how? It's a few days walk from here, not to mention it's mostly raider territory in between here and TenPony Tower!" One other mare retorted.

"Again: I have a Sky-wagon, I can fly you over there in under a day" I told them and flared up my wings, getting shocked expressions from the five of them.

"Are you Enclave?" The first stepped back and guarded the others with her body.

"No... I was an Outcast, I'm now nopony" I told them weakly.

"An Outcast huh? Think it's funny?" The third mare said, sounding pissed.

"What's funny?" I blinked.

"Outcasts aren't operating here! They have only the north, the west and the east. The south, middle and major cities aren't a place they're even touching!" the third mare hissed, like reacting to a bad joke.

"I was an Outcast, my base was attacked and I'm now forced to roam around the wasteland" I countered, a bit pissed myself. "Come on now, I don't want to stay here too long" I added more calmly.

I turned around and backtracked slowly toward my Sky-wagon, hearing the prisoner's hoof steps behined me, once I got outside the camp I noticed that the group from earlier were crowning and checking out the Sky-wagon.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing?" I shouted, drafting my battle saddle and walking angrily toward them, they all recoiled back and looked terrified to see me.

"Easy there.." the SMG unicorn said wealky.

"Don't you tell me to 'easy there' you fucking scum, I told you that if I'll see you guys again I'll fucking shoot you!" I screamed, bucking and cocking my battle saddle, ready to gun them down any second now.

"Geez.. We just wanted to ask you somethin'.." the hunting shotgun mare told me before backing off even more.

"How much caps I have on me? If this battle saddle's for sale? Something like this?!" I yelled in anger, holding myself back from shooting them.

"N-no.. We would like to get a ride.. We're terrible sorry for earlier and we promise that we'll pay you back" The SMG unicorn told me, I looked at them dumbfounded, that caught me by surprise.

"Do I look like a goddesses damned taxi to you?!" I retorted.

"Oh well, 'least we tried.." The battle saddle earth pony said and began to walk away.

"Where'd you need to go?" I asked calmly, like nothing had happened between us.

"Umm... New Appleloosa..." The SMG unicorn said weakly.

I looked behined me to see the five prisoners looking at me astonished, they saw my little rage-attacke I guess.. Well, I got now ten ponies to bring to New Appleloosa, wherever the hell this is.. My PipBuck suddenly lit up and marked a place a few kilometers away..

'New Appleloosa'