Spike was just about to crack open the newest comic in the X-ponies story, apparently introducing a new mercenary character that would fight the team, when Twilight kicked in the door to their room and slammed it behind her. Her horn crackled with power as she infused the door with all of her magic, making so that even a nuclear bomb wouldn't even put a dent in the thing. She then flipped her bed in front of the door as well, all the while Spike watched with raised eyebrows.

"The librarian from the library where you didn't return that book finally found you, didn't she?" Spike asked with a sigh as he pulled out a list of other ponies he could live with from a cabinet. "Well it was a good run Twilight, but sadly it looks like I won't be able to live here anymore. After she's done with you who knows what she'll do to the place."

"It's not the librarian, Spike. I lost her in the mountains of the Himarelians years ago," Twilight replied with a small smirk, before a noise outside caused her heart to turn to ice. "No, this is far worse that the librarian. It seems that our favorite merc is back...and he wants to talk with us."

"You didn't let him in, did you?" Spike asked in horror, all of his previous snark gone from his tone.

"Of course I didn't! I came home and found him in the living room with his muddy boots on the carpet!" Twilight shouted back.

"He got in on his own?! What is the point of all these state of the art magic defenses if they can't even keep one guy in red spandex out?!" Spike asked as he clutched his hands to his head, the panic starting to set in. "Where is he now?"

"Last I saw of him one of the electric traps was ripping him apart with it's power."

"So we've bought ourselves a few minutes at most. Great," Spike muttered as he pressed his shoulder to a book case and pushed it to the side, revealing a box that had the words "In case of Wade, break open" scrawled on the top of it. He kicked open the lid and pulled out what looked to be a black hole inside of a glass case. "You really think it will come down to this?"

For a moment Twilight pondered if her last resort would be needed, but then a knocking on the door was heard. "Oh yooohoo! Best friends?! I have a question for you and I need an answer!" the voice of Deadpool sang from the other side of the door. "Oh also Twilight, I need to borrow your limited Daring Do and the Unkillable Monster. It was taco night at Pinkie's and I'm going to need a lot of toilet paper. Think you can loan it to me?"

"Yes Spike, the black hole bomb is going to be needed," Twilight said with a solemn confidence as she nodded to Spike.

"It's been a good ride, hasn't it Twilight?" Spike said with a bitter smirk as he cocked the black hole bomb back and took aim at the door. "Thanks for being such a good friend."

"You too, Spike," Twilight replied before she used her magic to rip open the door, revealing one Wade Wilson who was about to knock once more.

"Ah thank you, I was beginning to wonder if-"

"Eat fire and die, monster!" Spike yelled as he chucked the black hole bomb towards Wade. An eyebrow went up underneath of Wade's mask before, with speeds that baffled the pony and dragon, he swiped the bomb right out of the air and looked down at it.

"Your guy's room looks different. Did you clean it up because you knew I was coming over? Aw, there was no reason to do that," Wade said as blush marks appeared over his mask on his cheeks. "And a black hole bomb as a gift to boot? You really are the bestest friends that a guy can ask for."

"Why are you here, Wade?" Twilight asked with venom in every word as she clutched at her limited edition Daring Do book like it was her child. On command, Wade reached into his pants between his legs, getting both Spike and Twilight to scream in horror, before he whipped out a rolled up sheet of paper from within a hidden compartment. Both dragon and pony sighed in relief at the appearance of the paper, though after taking a moment to glance at it a look of curiosity crossed Twilight's face.

"That paper...looks old. Like, older than Celestia and Luna old," Twilight muttered as she approached Wade.

"Wow. A piece of paper that's older than dirt," Wade said in awe as he gazed at the map once more. "But it's so much more than an old piece of paper. It's an old piece of paper...with drawings on them!" Wade revealed as he opened up the paper. Twilight only had to lay eyes on it for a moment before she recognized what it was, but just to be safe she swiped the paper from Wade and looked over it. "It's a treasure map, right?"

"It's a map to something, that much I do know," Twilight muttered in reply. "But I don't know about treasure. Wade, where did you get this?"

"Off of a dead guy's body," Wade replied, netting him a nasty look from Twilight. "Hey, I wasn't the guy who killed him. I was the guy smart enough to not leave a dead body unlooted. Haven't you every played an RPG before? Duh."

"Going to ignore everything I just heard and focus on this map instead," Twilight replied, closing her eyes for a moment to bleach her mind of everything irrelevant that Deadpool had just said. Once that was done she walked over to her bookshelf and pulled out a large map of Equestria. She used her magic to re-right her bed before she laid the map atop the covers, before laying Wade's map over it. For a few minutes she tried to find a way to make the two line up, before a laugh of victory escaped her lips as she lined up the two maps.

"I've found it! I've found where this map leads! It's leads to...oh, that's a mood killer."

"What's the matter Twilight?" Spike asked as he hopped up onto the bed.

"The map leads to the valleys of the souls," Twilight explained with a concerned look on her face. "The valley of souls is an ancient and forgotten part of Equestria, one that is said to be certain death for any that step foot into it. There's a long and complicated history involved with it that I should probably explain for the both of you. Listen and listen well."

"Can't we just skip this step?" Deadpool asked desperately.

"It all started in a thousand years before King Solaris came into power, the original founder of Equestria. Back then Equestria was an inhospitable land, filled with monster, devils and lawyers. It was a place no pony could survive in. That was before King Solaris implemented the politcal system that we would use for a few centuries. I suppose I should go into that as well. The system was-"

BLAM!

Twilight let out a screech as Deadpool's brains spread themselves across her wall and bookshelf, painting everything in her room a nice shade of red. For a moment Twilight looked down at Deadpool, who was missing a chunk of his head, before she sighed and used her magic to start to scoop up his brains.

"Is it over?" Deadpool asked a moment later as he sat up, the wound in his head completely healed.

"Yes Wade, it's over. Please don't do that again," Twilight asked in a very unnerved voice. "Still can't get used to that."

"Oh sure, Deadpool blows his own head off to avoid one of your lectures and he just gets off with a don't do it again. I try to sneak out of one of them and I'm grounded for a week. Where's the fairness in that?" Spike grumbled to himself.

"Well that's simple, Spike. Twilight just simply doesn't like you," Wade replied.

"Don't tell lies, Wade."

"I spit only the truth. It's just a matter of perspective," Wade smirked back.

"Don't start. Come on, help me clean this mess up so we can get ready to go," Twilight said to both Wade and Spike, but she only tossed Spike a mop that she conjured with her magic.

"Where are we going, Twilight?" Spike asked.

"You are not going anywhere. The valley of souls is way too dangerous for you. As for you and me Wade, we are going to be heading out to that valley to find what secrets that it holds," Twilight informed the both of them. "And the secrets must be pretty important if the fanatics have a map to the place. You, me and any of my friends that think they can tolerate your presence will be coming with us. I expect this to be a very small search party."

"At least I know that you will be there for me," Wade said as he went in for a hug, but Twilight teleported herself outside of his grasp. Twilight rolled her eyes at Wade before she left the room, leaving Wade to follow after her. Wade followed the pony to the door, where he stopped and glanced behind himself and Spike, who was looking at the pair of them with a look of dejectedness and longing.

"Oh alright, but don't tell Twilight," Deadpool said to Spike as he pulled out a backpack and opened it. Spike squeeled with delight before he hopped into the backpack, which Deadpool zipped up. A few moments later he then unzipped it slightly, remembering that Spike needed to breath.

"What's in the backpack, Wade?" Twilight asked as she glanced at the X-men backpack that Wade was wearing, with all of the Wolverine images cut out.

"My secret weapon. Nah, it's a body. Wanna look?" Wade offered Twilight.

"No. No no no. You stand a little further over that way," Twilight replied with a shake of her head. "No offense Wade, but you are one messed up son of a bitch."

"Correction, I am a bastard, not a son of a bitch. My mother was a lovely person. At least, I think she was. It's hard to keep track with all of the times my origin story has been changed. Hey, want to hear about how Wolverine is actually an otter?"

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"Welp, this is pretty much what I figured would happen," Twilight said a few hours later as she and Wade stood next to an airship that had been parked near her castle. She had sent a message to each of her friends asking if they would help her and Wade explore the valley of souls. Some of them had said no on account of that they were terrified by the valley of souls (Fluttershy and Rainbow, though she worded it differently). Applejack and Rarity had said no based on the fact that Wade was there. And Pinkie had showed up to hang with her two best friends.

"How is it in the few days that you've known them, you've managed to turn not just nearly all of my friends, but most of the ponies in both Ponyville and Canterlot against you?" Twilight asked Deadpool.

"How I'm written, mostly."

"Do you piss off your friends in your world this much or do you just not have any friends to begin with?" Twilight asked once more.

"See, that's actually something I've been wondering. One issue I'm on speaking terms with Wolverine and Captain America seems to respect me. Then in another issue I'm being sliced apart and kicked in the nads by old man Cap. Would it kill the writers to give me some form of continuity?" Deadpool asked. "Sigh, that's the price you pay when you're one of the most popular comic book characters. Everyone writes you differently."

"What?"

"Nothing. So are we going to go adventuring or not?" Deadpool asked before he glanced at Pinkie. "Because I can only imagine how much fun it will be to explore a place that nobody has been to in God knows how long. Hey Pinkie, think that we'll find zombies first or ghosts?"

"Ghosts. There's no way we're not getting some warning from the ghosts about not entering the place before the zombies come out," Pinkie said confidently.

"See that Twilight, that's smart right there. Why isn't Pinkie the leader of your little League?" Deadpool asked Twilight, who sighed as she slapped a hoof to her head.

"Come on, let's get going. It's obvious that nopony else is going to show up."

"Wrong again, Twilight. Must be a trait of the princesses to be wrong so constantly."

Twilight, Wade and Pinkie looked at the road to see Deathstroke walking towards them, instantly putting Twilight on guard while Deadool let out a happy gasp.

"Daddy! You're coming adventuring with us?!" Deadpool asked with glee.

"Against my better judgement, yes. I am coming with you. I am interested in this valley of the souls and the secrets within it as well," Deathstroke said as he glanced at Wade and in that moment both mercenaries knew that they were thinking the same thing. Which scared Deathstroke slightly.

"How did you know we were going to the valley of souls? I didn't send you a letter," Twilight asked.

"Simple. I had you bugged back at the train station," Deathstroke said as he extended his hand and a tiny, mechanical bug flew off of Twilight and landed on his hand. "Celestia was kind enough to teleport me here once we learned of your goals. Seems that she wants an actual professional looking after you and your friends."

"Sure she does," Pinkie replied warily, getting Deathstroke to cast her a look. Before either could say anything Deadpool threw his arm over Slade's shoulder.

"YEAH! Family outing! Let's a go!" he said before he threw his backback over the side of the ship, where a faint "ow" could be heard. Twilight followed up after Wade as he hopped onto the ship. Deathstroke and Pinkie took a moment to stare at each other.

"I don't know what you're up to Slade, but I would recommend being on your bestest behavior," Pinkie said, before she pulled out her party cannon and pointed it at him. "Because I'm starting to wonder what you would look like cover in frosting. You don't want to find that out." She then put her cannon away and hopped onto the ship, leaving Deathstroke to stare at the spot where the cannon had vanished.

'So she can materialize things like Deadpool,' Slade thought to himself before he hauled himself onto the ship. 'interesting. Very interesting.'