The light from the teleportation hadn't even had time to fade before Slade and Wade had already sprung into action. Slade dashed forward onto the edge of what looked to be a castle turret and activated the scanner on his helmet. A quick swivel of his head was enough for him to discern that they had been teleported to an ancient and decrepit castle, one of which was filled to the brim with fanatics of all shapes and sizes.

"I know where Spike and Flurry are," Deadpool said to the others as he drew a katana and a sidearm. "She is, of course, in the tallest tower surrounded by the biggest and meanest guards. What the hell is it about princesses that people feel the need to lock them in a tower?"

"All I care about right now is getting my daughter back and laying waste to all those that dare to take her from me," Cadence roared in an unholy voice as she took a few steps forward. Yet her actions drew the attention of numerous ballistic weapons that were lined all along the castle. Bolts of black magic came thundering out of the ballistic weaponry and exploded all around the group, who were forced to take cover within the turret.

"Dammit it all, they have anti-magic weaponry," Celestia snarled with rage as she studied some of the dark magic that had floated down with them. "It is an ancient and thought to be exterminated form of magic that can kill the magic of any magical being it comes into contact with. We cannot get close to that tower without being blasted apart by this dark weaponry. To think the fanatics had something like this on their side..."

"Well luckily for the lot of you, you have to have two very skilled and very dangerous beings without magic who can still go up there and give those evil villains what for," Deadpool reminded the group, who all gave him a hesitant look. "Oh God dammit. Look, i know practically none of you like me, but right now, Slade and i are your only hope of getting your daughter and your dragon manservant back. Whether you like it or not, you're going to have to trust in us."

"I trust you, Wade," Pinkie spoke up, getting Wade to smile at the pink pony.

"Deadpool is right, zas much as it pains me to admit it. The ten of you will be useless in this fight," Slade informed the group. Each of the ponies aside from Celestia and Luna began to argue, but he held up a gun to silence them. "Allow Wade and I to deal with this problem. Flurry was kidnapped on my watch, after you paid me to keep her safe. This is a mistake that I will personally make up for."

"And as much as all of you like to abuse Spike, I actually like the little guy. Imma go get him back," Deadpool said with a smirk. The two then turned and began to ascend the steps, until Cadence cleared her throat to stop the both of them once more.

"Slade, I have only one last thing to say to you before you go...I authorize lethal force," Cadence spat with venom. A wicked smile spread beneath Slade's helmet, but externally all he did was nod his head before he and Wade burst out onto the turret once more, finding that the entire army of the fanatics had been assembled to deal with the pair.

"So what's the plan, daddy oh?" Deadpool asked.

"Get to Flurry and kill everything in your path," Slade replied as he drew his blade.

"And Spike."

"What about him?"

"We need to save him to. He's a pretty funny guy once you get back the whole child servant thing."

"Why do you care so much about a small dragon?"

"I'm a very caring guy once you get to know me. It's amazing how many people forget that."

"Whatever. Let's go."

Slade and Wade sprinted forward, firing bullets with lethal precision into the horde of fanatics that had begun to charge towards them. Slade whipped out his sniper rifle and fired a single shot that tore through the skulls of ten fanatics, spraying blood all across the comrades that had been running with them. Realizing the threat that Slade brought, all of the fanatics turned their attention to Slade adn took their eyes off of Wade. Much to their demise.

Rockets filled with confetti and fire rained down on the fanatics, blasting them apart into chunky bits of flesh that had confetti all around them. Wade let out a joyish cry as if he was on a roller coaster as he raced along and fired his duel rocket launchers at anything that got in his way, blasting them to hell.

Magic, arrows and all others forms of weaponry devised to caused a painful and brutal death rained down upon the twin mercenaries, but the pair of them hardly even slowed under such a barrage of pain. Deathstroke's armor prevented any of the weapons, spells or other tools of death from so much as scratching him, allowing him to rush on ahead without worry. Deadpool's body was burned, pierced and ripped apart by the weaponry that carved into him, but he was far too pissed off to care about some nicks and scratches. Not to mention he healed almost instantly from all of the wounds.

Slade decapitated a group of fanatics before tossing a grenade into a group of the fanatics, spraying the area with blood and guts. Wade had decided to go with a more delicate way of dealing with the fanatics, so as his minigun roared to life and shredded hundreds of the fanatics into a bloody paste, he shook his head at Slade's barbaric ways of dealing with his foes.

"Where do you keep all of those weapons?" Slade asked Deadpool as Deadpool slipped his minigun behind him and causing it to vanish.

"Up my ass, where I also keep my guns, my swords, my other swords and my jokes," Deadpool replied with a smirk, yet Slade noticed the slight hint of menace in the smile. "Come now father, we must go save the princess and the dragon from the tower! Somebody here doesn't know how these things are supposed to work. The dragon is supposed to guard the princess and you're already gone."

Slade cleaved and shot his way through the remaining fanatics that stood in his way before he finally reached the pinnacle of the castle, kicking in the door to revel a long hallway ending with an alter that stood along beneath a stain glass window. Both Spike and Flurry lay on the alter, both of which had blank eyes. The fanatic that had taken them stood over them, muttering something under his breath while he held a dagger in above the both of them. Then he plunged the dagger towards Spike's chest.

BANG!

The dagger shattered into pieces of metal and was swatted out of the fanatics hoof by the bullet, getting him to curse in pain before he turned around to see Slade and Wade, the latter being the one that had shot the dagger. "Good job saving the dragon, Slade. You were really going to stay there and watch a kid get murdered?"

"I was not paid to protect him. Had the pony been threatening Flurry it would have been a different story."

"You're a real prick, you know that? And speaking of pricks," Deadpool began as he turned to face the fanatic, who was glaring at both Wade and Slade, but mostly Slade. "Hey asshole, I believe that you have a two little kids that don't belong to you. And while I may love free candy as much as the next guy, you've got a special place in hell for your actions. But if you let the kids go, I'll make your trip to that fire painless. My daddy may not. What's it going to be?"

"This is all because of you," the fanatic said to Slade.

"Oh cool, being ignored."

"You are the one in the prophecy, the one that will steal magic from this land and cause blood to rain from the skies. The one that will bring an end to all that we know and love," the fanatic continued, his eyes locked onto the one red eye of Slade. "The princesses and their hidden magic may have begun the end, but you shall be the one that ends us all."

"Bringing the end to a world doesn't sound like my MO, but I suppose if I was paid enough," Slade began as he drew his sword and one of his pistols, a smile spreading as he had the final piece. "But right now all I've been paid to do is kill you and retrieve the princess. So this is where we part ways."

"Indeed. It is."

The fanatic then whipped out a five sided item from within his cloak and fired a beam of black light at Slade, who was able to get out of the way in time. However, his pistol had been struck by the light and the upper half of it was gone. Slade dove behind a column for cover and scanned the missing half of his gun. It had not been disintegrated, it had not been burned away: it simply had been erased from existence.

"A weapon that can erase anything from existence, huh?" Slade muttered to himself as he gripped his sword. "I've dealt with worse."

"Hey asshole, did ya forget about me?!" Wade roared with rage as he lunged towards the fanatic, both blades held over his hand. "I'm used to getting strange looks and being insulted, but if you seriously think for a moment that I'm not the most dangerous guy in the room, you're in for a bad time!"

The fanatic spun and fired a blast of dark light at Deadpool, but just like Slade Wade was also quick enough to get out of the way of the blast. He landed right behind the fanatic and swung at his head, but his blades bounced off of a barrier of magic that the fanatic constructed around his body. Deadpool flipped out of the way of another blast of dark light, before landing on the alter.

"Oh look, I was needing a dragon and a princess to complete my medieval collect and now I have them!" he exclaimed joyously as he bent over to scoop the pair of them up. The fanatic let out a roar as he fired three blasts of the dark light towards the merc with a mouth. Deadpool managed to completely avoid two of the three beams, but the third one managed to graze his arm.

"Mother fucker that hurt!" Wade exclaimed as he rolled backwards and let fly an army of shurikens towards the fanatic, who blocked them all with his magic. Wade rolled behind a pillar and examined the spot on his arm where the magic had struck him, finding a small piece of his body had been taken out. And, much to his annoyance, he found that the piece of him wasn't growing back. 'Great, another writer thinks that they can create some mcguffin that can kill me and keep me dead. Fine, we'll go along with it for now. Before I can give them shit for being so original I've got to get Spike and Flurry.'

Deadpool peaked out from behind his column to see that Deathstroke was already engaging the fanatic, with both of them dodging and deflecting each others attempts to harm the other. Seeing that this was his moment to get the two kids, Deadpool raced over to the pair, gaining him the attention of the fanatic.

"You shall not claim them!" he roared as he spun and pointed the amulet at Deadpool, only for the amulet to fly into the air a moment later when Deathstroke severed his arm from his body. The fanatic barely had enough time to register that his limb was missing before Deathstroke made his head join his arm. A moment later both were rolling around on the floor and Deathstroke extended his had to catch the amulet. For a brief moment Deadpool and Deathstroke shared a look, both of them knowing what this meant.

"Hey daddy, considering you've missed, like, every single on of my birthday's since I was born, would you mind giving me that fancy stone there as a present?" Deadpool asked as he pulled out his twin swords and took up a fighting stance.

"How about I give you something that you've needed for a long time? I'll grant you death," Slade snarled as he held the amulet in one hand and his sword in the other. Then the fanatics body exploded in a blinding fury of magic and death. The explosion tore both Deadpool and Deathstroke from their feet and hurled them to opposite sides of the room, while the amulet fell to the ground inbetween the two.

Deadpool groaned as he shook his head, before his eyes widened as he realized that this was his chance, as Deathstroke was still stunned. But he had barely taken a step towards Deathstroke when he heard a cry of fear. He glanced over at the table to see that Spike and Flurry had awoken and that the dark fire was blazing around them and the entire room. With Deadpool not being magical in nature, he didn't have much to fear from the fire. But the two of them did. So he sprinted towards them.

Deathstroke let out a groan as he tried to clear the cobwebs, not able to remember the last time he had been hit by an explosion like that. He then looked up to see that the ceiling was coming down right on top of him. He raised his arms to defend himself, only for the debris to shatter harmlessly against a barrier of magic that had been constructed around him. With some confusion he looked down to see Flurry Heart sitting at his feet, using her magic to protect the both of them.

"Good girl," he said with a smirk as he scooped her up, before looking across the floor to see the amulet laying there. He then looked to his side where Deadpool was trying to free Spike from the table, in need of help. And vulnerable. Without a second thought he raced towards it, scooped it up, fired a blast from the amulet into the back of Deadpool, grabbed Spike from the table as Deadpool lay burning and hurled himself through the nearest window, using his body to shield the two from any of the debris. He slammed into the ground some twenty feet down just in time as the castle above exploded into a ball of fire and death. Slade picked himself up and cradled Flurry and Spike gingerly, before he walked over to where the others were.

"FLURRY!" Cadence and Shining exclaimed when they spied Deathstroke walking towards them with Flurry clutched in his arms. They swiped the filly from him and cradled her together, both of them sobbing softly. Slade watched the pair for a moment before he looked towards the others.

"SPIKE!" Twilight exclaimed as she snatched the dragon out of Slade's grip and held him tight. "Thank you. Thank you for saving him."

"Of course. The best saves everyone."

A moment after Slade said this a giant ball of burned flesh and singed suit slammed into the ground near the ponies, where a very broken and battered Deadpool lay in a pile and struggled to move.

"Pain...all I know is pain," Deadpool said weakly as he began to snap his limbs back into place. "So did anyone get the number of that bus that exploded in my face? I think the driver was from New York, but nearly all of them drive angrily and explode so I can't be sure."

"I believe it is time we go home," Celestia said with a sigh of relief, looking over her friends with a smile as she saw that everypony was safe.

"Indeed, there is much we need to discuss," Slade said with a look at Celestia that made the princess shiver slightly. That was until Pinkie walked up to Slade and tapped on his armored leg.

"Hey Slade...thanks for saving Flurry and Spike," Pinkie said softly. "Maybe...I was too quick in dissing your request. Whatever it is, as long as it doesn't hurt anypony, I'll help you with it."

"Pinkie...you have no idea how much of a help that will be to me."