“Hey, you awake?” I awoke to see Stitch next to me, I could see the sorrow on her face. “I um… Have some stuff I want ask you about.”

She must have been taking the lost of her brother very hard, I could see that she hasn’t gotten any sleep since we’ve arrived here. I remember how I felt after the loss of my father, I didn’t eat or sleep for two whole days until I realized what was going on. At least Stitch seemed to realize that she was acting this way a little sooner than I had.

“What is it?” I ask her, moving forward in my bed.

“I… Had something I wanted to know about you and your father,” She told me. “You said you lost him a few years ago, and I wanted to know if you had any advice with dealing with loss.”

I thought about what she was asking me for a second before responding. “The first thing you have to you already have done. You realized what’s going on, and I know you don’t want to be this way. You opened up to me as well, which means you're addressing the problem, another step. After that is really a thing I don’t even know, but my advice is to stay positive and think about what you still have. You have me, Willow, and Sharp all still with you, remember that you're never alone, got it,”

Stitch nodded, and looked away for a small time before looking back at me. “You wanna take a walk with me?” She asked, “They said we would be docking soon anyways.”

“Don’t mind at all,” I get up and get into my power armor. “Where do you wanna go? I’m interesting in seeing the bridge if you don’t mind.”

“No, not at all,” Stitch replied. “I was actually thinking the same thing, besides that stupid Breaker pony you mentioned isn't awake right now.”

“In that case you lead the way,” I say, “You’ve probably explored a bit more since you have been up longer,”

She leads me down the hallway, and I closed the door to my room to make sure nopony got in there while I was away. We made our way down the hallway and I looked to see Stitch being hesitant as she stepped. A couple times she would stop a paw the ground before moving further and stopping again. I could tell she wasn’t really sure about being out here.

“You wanna talk about it some more?” I look at her with worry. “It helps, it really does.”

She rushed into my hooves, giving me a hug as her face swelled with tears. Wow, this was worse than I thought, wasn’t it. I simply stood there, not knowing what to do as she hugged me watching as Zoey came out of a room and saw the two of us. I wanted to speak out to her for help, but she shook her head at me and pointed at me. She was trying to tell me that this is something I need to take care of, and she was right.

“Dead Hooves how did you handle it so well?” She asked me. “How did you manage to keep a smile, or not get scared when you saw what happened? I want to know. I’m a coward when it comes to fighting, and I didn’t do anything to stop it. Can you please tell me, take me as an apprentice or something and teach me how I can be as strong as you?” She started hyperventilating as she spoke. “Can you teach me how to be brave?”

I simply looked at her in shock, didn’t I tell her that I had lived in a small cottage in the middle of nowhere all my life. I didn’t know what bravery was, or what being a coward was. She wanted to learn how to be strong, but she came to me instead of Sharpshot. Was it because of his stubbornness and thoughts of living; turning down apologies and not giving sympathy to those who had just seen family killed. He knew what it was like as well but he acted like it never happened.

She wasn’t going to get better though if I said no. I was told what happens to ponies who end up with depression by my father and I wasn’t going to let Stitch die as well. She may have already lost so much, but she still had a life to live and places to go and see. If taking her under my wing was going to somehow help, then I was will to take it.

“Sure,” I say to her. She looked to me as I give her the answer. “I’ll help you be stronger, if that’s what you wish, but just consider me a friend and don’t tell anypony about this, got it?”

She backed up and tried her best to call herself down, wiping the tears away from her eyes in the process. “Thank you,” She said, her eyes watering. “Thank you so so much. You have no idea what it’s been like for me the last few hours. I’ve felt so useless and angry at myself and like you said I need someone to talk to. You're the only one I can honestly go to for aid, Willow Wisp has simply been hanging out in the engine room staring at it and it isn't even worth talking to Sharpshot in these kind of situations,”

“No kidding,” I said agreeing with her. “He’s got no sense of respect. Hell, you should have heard how he acted when we first met. Doesn’t give a good first impression that’s for sure.”

“Attention everyone,” Stitch and I look up to the speaker just above our heads, “We will be landing in home base in one minute, I repeat we will be landing in one minute. Prepare to leave.”

Hearing that, I looked down to the ground below us to see the ruins of a massive city. This must have Las Pegasus, the city we were heading to in the beginning. I looked around at the giant ruined buildings of Las Pegasus in amazement. I looked to see one building in the distance that was highlighted with small beams probably to show the “raptor” as these soldiers had called where to land I wasn’t as big as other buildings in the area but it was much newer looking. I could obviously tell that was where we were going to land if my earlier statement didn’t say anything.

“That’s a view,” Stitch stated, speaking for me as well. “I wonder how many ponies use to live here and how beautiful it was. It’s so hard to imagine the terror that has been wiped from those seventy-five years.”

“You can say that again,” I tell her before realizing something. “But please don’t.”

She laughed as she heard me say that, and I looked at her wondering why. “You do know that’s a figure of speech right?” She says managing to hold her laughter in.

I simply smiled and rolled my eyes, it was just the way I was use to saying it. I wasn’t use to a pony questioning me on it but I guess it was only expected. I wonder what other habits of mine ponies would question, hopefully it was nothing fun or exciting, not that I had any like that.

“Hey! Stitch, Dead Hooves,” I look to see Zoey finally step forward, having heard the entire thing. “How’d you two sleep?”

I heard a yawn escape Stitch’s mouth before either of us was able to reply. “I think that kind of sums it up for me,” She said giggling, she seemed to be doing better already.

“I slept well,” I said smiling. “Did you know they have those cool Novasurge rifles in the reserve rooms?”

“I didn’t bother taking it,” Zoey said, “They were short a room so I ended up having to sleep with somepony named Rocket. Kind of funny that they use code names here huh?”

“I think it’s interesting,” I respond. “I would love a nickname of my own, and since I had a bit of a chat with some girl named Feather and plan on stay a little longer to have some things repaired, I might decided to take a nickname myself.”

“Then I’m staying as well,” Stitch said, “Now that… Well you know what is going on I’m not leave your side.”

“I heard the entire conversation.”

Stitch looked at Zoey with surprised, not having known she was there the entire time. Her ears flattened in fear as it settled in her, “Please don’t tell Sharpshot about this. I don’t want to deal with him bickering me at the moment.”

“Don’t worry about it,” Zoey replied in reassuring manner “Besides, I plan to stay as well. You and me Dead Hooves have a similar objective, and I don’t plan on leaving your side until my mom is free again, got it,” I nod my head and move out of the way as Zoey looks through the window. “Looks like we’re starting to descend.”

I follow her gaze and watch as we start getting closer to the ground, watching as we came into the giant field of lights below us. My ears started clogging up and popping uncontrollably as we got closer and closer to the ground, causing me to open and close my jaw in order to feel a little better about it. I watched as we suddenly came right to ground level and watched as the raptor slid along the runway until it stopped only a few feet from the end of them.

“I got the chance to learn that this raptor is designed a little differently from Rocket,” Zoey explained “It’s powered by a more advanced engine then a normal raptor due to the fact we are lower to the ground and the pegasi have to stay closer to it in order to be able to search around here. They also added wheels on the bottom of it to keep it from landing roughly on the ground. It was made especially for this here group and is the only one they have, which is why it was such a big deal when Sharpshot apparently broke it.”

“Please don’t talk about that,” We turn around to see Willow Wisp and Sharpshot looking at us. “I hear from captain Bleak that Dead Hooves is planning on staying due to a little talk you had with that mare Feather earlier,” I nodded in response, expecting him to look at me in an angry manner. “Well I’m here to let you know that he has convinced me to stay as well. Since you are a client in a way to me and you have offered to help me with my 'personal problem' so I had no way to get out of this,” Willow Wisp quickly walked to my side as Sharp cracked an unexpected smile. “Bleak wanted me to say to you 'welcome to the Angel Hunters'.”

My face lit up with excitement, he was making us members of the Angel Hunters. I’m guessing he did something in a similar method with Feather where he simply just didn’t tell the Enclave council or whatever kind of system they had we were joining. I was mainly happy about this because I wouldn’t have to worry about my power armor breaking down and having to crawl across the wasteland thanks to Feather upholding her promise, at least I hope she did. This also gave me a chance to find the Bloody Angel and any traces of it would be sent to us probably. I had my chance to track down this criminal and take him down once and for all, and if it so happened to take me to Manehattan then that was a double bonus.

“Hey rookies!” I look to see a new pegasus coming towards us that I hadn’t seen before. She had a yellow coat with a red mane and tail with a streak of black going through the middle of them. Her cutie mark was what looked like a map, but with all the wavy lines on it I couldn’t really tell. She wore a grey suit with a patch on it with a halo and wings covered in blood with the crosshairs of a zebra rifle on them (at least a zebra rifle was the only thing I could think of) “Came to congratulate a certain few of you for being the first unicorns and zebras to join any group of the Grand Pegasus Enclave, whether they know it or not. The name's Nav and I came to give you some uniforms. Now that you’re members this is what you will be wearing, that includes under your power armor. Welcome to the Angel Hunters.”

“Thanks Nav,” Sharp said, surprising me and everyone else next to me that he had actually manage to say that. “Oh, did you speak to Bleak on the whole keeping my current nickname thing.”

“He’s fine with it,” Nav said, handing the uniforms to the unicorn in front of her. “He didn't know that you had stopped going by Icecap until a year ago just like most ponies.”

Icecap, so that was Sharp’s name. Made sense considering the stable he came from he told me was really cold. That must have been why he changed his name when he got the chance. It probably bothered him because of what happened at Stable fifteen two years ago, I know it still troubled him. It was one of the few signs of weakness that actually showed in him, the only others being his unapologetic manner and his… Apparently bad luck with using, fixing, or just being around machinery.

“We should be getting off,” Nav said. “You have to do some stuff before you're free to wander around the facility. Captain Bleak will be waiting for you outside, just make sure you have your uniforms on first.”

We nodded and Sharp handed out the uniforms to us to get them on. I got out of my power armor to put it on, and I soon realized that this wasn’t made for a unicorn like myself. There was nowhere to put the horn at the top of the uniform, and both me and Sharp were forced to make a hole of our own in order to get fully into it. This was actually the first time I had seen Sharp's body, and I looked at his flank to see he had crosshairs for a cutie mark. Guess the nickname Sharpshot made since as well now. I didn’t want to call him Icecap because I didn’t know if it would bug him or not, and it most likely would.

I put the goggles over my eyes (Sharp ripping his off and throwing it to the side) and looked around in them. The uniform and goggles over my face felt weird, everything looked darker but also more clear somehow. The uniform itself felt weird just for the fact this was the first time I had worn anything other than my power armor on my body and the feeling of leather over my body was weird. If this is what they wore, however, I wasn’t going to bother complaining.

“So this is what it is like to wear goggles,” I look to see Zoey completely dressed, “Definitely feels weird.”

“You get use to it when it’s forever attached to your face,” Sharp said, “It’s nothing new to me, and you don’t have to wear those unless you're on missions I pretty sure,” We looked to see the other members getting off, “Guess it’s time to disembark.”

“Give me a second,” I quickly rush into my room and grab Remembrance and the Novasurge rifle from yesterday before coming back out. “Okay I’m ready,”

We follow Sharp outside and look around to the destroyed city around us. It seemed so beautiful by itself, I wonder what it was like before the mega spell hit this place. The building to the right of us, which was definitely the base of operations for the Angel Hunters since we landed right next to it. Every pony was wearing the same uniform we were, except for Captain Bleak who sported a brown jacket with a stetson hat which he didn’t have on before. Must have been more casual wear for him.

“Two years and you still have that thing,” Sharp said looking at him “Applejack still your idol.”

Bleak put on a smile at this. “She will always be,” His voice of tone changed as we all stood in front of him. “Well, I can see that you have all decided to stay, and I think Nav and Sharp here has already told you that you are one of us now,” He looked at me as he continued. “And I can see someone took the spare room they had to their advantage,” I got nervous as I swung the Novasurge rifle. “Don’t worry miss, you can keep it. We always have a few extra in case of emergency. Now I’m pretty sure some of you have noticed the whole code name thing going on around here. That’s simply just a safety precaution that we have to take since most of us, including me, had originally worked under the Shadowbolts. As such it is required that you must take one on as well.”

“Guess it makes sense,” I hear Zoey say next to me. “So are they just made randomly or is there a process behind it?”

“All codenames have a meaning behind them that coordinates with the pony that bares it,” Bleak answered. “We will assess you in a small training operation first to see your abilities and assess it from there, but for those of you who I was told have talents outside of that field you will be given yours right now,” He looked to Stitch. “Miss Stitch, I know you’ve been through some hardship recently but I’m glad to see have decided to help us.”

“Thank you sir,” She says nodding her head. “I’m glad to be here.”

“Sharp here has told me about your impressive medical skills, especially since there self taught,” Stitch blushed a little as she heard this. “Your codename miss Stitch will be Pin, okay?”

“No objections,” She replied.

“Step to the side, I will tell you where you are to go after I’m finished with the others, that goes for you as well Sharpshot,” The two ponies stepped away. “They may have proven what they're made of but you will have to do more in order to show us you belong here. I know that sounds harsh but if we don’t have good soldiers we can't be expected to find that hideous killer or preserve what we still have of our old home. If you would follow me please.”

Willow Wisp, Zoey, and I all followed him as he took us around the building to a fenced off area of the city. It seemed to be some sort of training ground from the looks of it, and there was someone waiting at the side of it. Once again, it was a pegasus I haven’t yet seen and could really see him in too much detail because of the uniform. He had a light blue coat with a darker blue mane and tail. His uniform was different then the rest of ours, being blue with a yellow underbelly. He looked very elderly from the looks of it, even older than Granny Cotton had been.

“You awake gramps?” Bleak asked jokingly, the old pony steering awake as he heard the names. “We got some new special recruit’s that need to be tested.”

The older pegasus took one glance at us and smiled in amazement. “Have to say grandson, you surely do seem to be full of surprises,” The old pony got up and walk over to us in a friendly manner. “Nice to meet you all, the names Soarin, retired member of the Wonderbolts, now known as the Shadowbolts.”

“Soarin here is a veteran from the war,” Bleak told. “He was the reason we were able to form in the first place, giving us full control of all operations here on the ground. We may be Enclave in origin but in many ways we're a group all our own.”

“Guess that explains the nicer manners,” I said, both of them nodding in agreement, Soarin looking at me curiously. “Is something wrong mister Soarin?”

“That power armor reminds me of an old friend,” He said. “It was Enclave of course instead of Steel Ranger, but looking at you reminds me of her,” He must of realized he was getting off track because he turn back to Bleak, who I guess was his grandson, and spoke to him. “I can take things from here, you go do whatever it is you do when you're not on duty.”

“I’m actually going to be observing them,” Bleak told Soarin. “Someone is going to need to see what they're made of, and considering you are only here as requirement of the council I’m going to leave the explaining primarily to you.”

Bleak walked off and left us with Soarin. So this was a pony from during the war? He sure seemed like he had seen his fair of battle, but he surprisingly seemed to be fine for the most part. Despite that, it was pretty interesting meeting a pony that had survived it all, after what Sharpshot said about the ministers I thought they were all dead.

“So, I guess I better explain the training assignment,” Soarin said turning to us. “What you see here is a part of the portion of the old city of Las Pegasus that has been sealed off for the purpose of training new recruits like yourself. The main objective is pretty simply, find the target and eliminate it. The target in question is a cardboard cutout of a raider, but that’s the only enemy in there that isn’t real. You will have to battle through Hellhounds, Ghouls, Radroaches, and other things, but the main enemies you have to worry about are these nasty beast called Living Fossils."

“I’ve heard of those,” Zoey said, “They’re old bones held together by an unstable balance in the magic left from the mega spells. They can be anything from pre-historic Equestria to bodies of ponies from the war.”

“Well I can see someone here knows her stuff,” Soarin said impressed. “You’re right though, that’s exactly what they are. Every Living Fossil looks different from the other because they are made of multiple creature or ponies, but the one thing that they all have in common are these things we have called fluxes. It’s a bright white light in them that keeps them together, but it’s also a physical object. You hit enough, it will explode and fall to the floor once again lifeless. Now remember, nothing in there is friendly, so anything that moves feel free to shot, got it?” We nod our heads in understanding.

“Good,” Soarin said as he continued his explanation. “Now any personal weapons and things are allowed, it won’t affect your assessment. In fact, we encourage that you use any special or personal weapons of yours as it will help us place you in a spot of our crew. Also, anything of interest you find in the city is yours to keep and remember that it’s important to use the Environment to your advantage. That’s all, when that light turns on, you will enter the city.”

I look up to see an old light bulb hanging attached to some wires. I watched where the wires went and realized it led to a building outside of the training area. I looked more closely to see Bleak sitting down doing something. I would have to impress him, that’s for sure, but as long as I kept my mind on the mission it wouldn’t be that hard. At least that’s what I hoped.

I looked up to see the light bulb turn on and watch as Soarin opens a gate in front of us. “I wish you all the best of luck,” He says, and I give him a nod of thanks before I enter.

Me, Willow Wisp, and Zoey looked in awe at the giant buildings that surrounded us. Some of them were falling apart with gigantic holes in them while others were completely leveled from the devastation that must have been caused around here. The area we had seemed pretty big, but I think that was the point. It was just a small part of a bigger world that surrounded us.

I of course had Remembrance and the Novasurge rifle and my side, Zoey had her carbine from when we met, and Willow Wisp had the normal repeater rifle from the raider camp. All in all, I feel like we were very well prepared for this, even if we had left most of our medical supplies with Stitch and Sharpshot. Zoey had luckily packed some in her saddlebags (wish I had some myself honestly) so I was hoping that was enough to get us through this.

The farther we headed into the city the more I realized just how bad it had been hit. Like Stitch said, you have to wonder what life was like before the mega spells here. Did the sidewalks once line up with ponies of all kinds? did those buildings once housed them and earned them bits? If that was all the case, I couldn’t imagine the terror of the Mega spell when it landed here. All the ponies that must have died here, must have been the reason those Living Fossil things were around here.

“So exactly where should we start looking?” I asked interested. “Zoey, you probably know the area better then me, anything you can tell me I should know.”

“That Novasurge rifle of yours and this Carbine of mine have scopes,” She pointed out. “We won’t be able to really tell what we are looking for until we can get a scan of the area. I haven’t been in this area of the city before so the best idea would be to get as high up in the air as possible.”

“Willow Wisp,” The mute pegasus looked to me as I spoke to her. “Can you fly?” The pegasus shook her head, looking at the ground in disappointment. “Hey, don’t worry about it,” I look up at the buildings around us. “If we get up to the top of one of the buildings here we could get a good scan of the surrounding area."

Zoey looked around before nodding. “Most of these buildings are probably unstable, but it’s the best idea we currently have so what the hell,” She points to a fancy looking building still mostly intact. “I say we take that one, it looks like we can get a higher vantage point if we took it then any of the others."

Willow and I nodded in agreement and Zoey took the lead. We followed her into what might have once been a fashionable hotel lobby. The sign above the door read “Calm Trot Hotel” and the metal doors were rusted and smashed, glass from the inside of it everywhere. The carpet of the hotel has clearly seen better days, being torn up and burned by the looks of it. The wallpaper wasn’t any better, in fact I would saw it’s worse than the carpet. It made some major peeling to reveal the brick behind it. The couches and chairs in the lobby also weren’t that good, showing major wear and tear. I saw sparks coming from a small square shape room to the side.

“Looks like the elevator is out,” Zoey said. “Guess we're taking the stairs.”

Willow Wisp and I followed Zoey into a small door next to the so called elevator she mentioned. As we get in, I look up to see the gigantic amount of stairs that lead up, some parts of it falling off. We… are going to climb that? Why? Why the fuck does the Wasteland want to do this to me?

“Looks like we'll have to weave in and out,” Zoey explains. “Be prepared, just in case there are feral ghouls in here.”

We nodded and I place Remembrance up next to my chest as we start climbing the stairs. Willow Wisp and Zoey had it easy, I on the other hand had to lug around this giant goddess damn piece of metal without fall on my ass too many times. It was stupid, who builds a building this high with this amount of stairs. We didn’t stop walking until around what, thirteenth floor? Worst part, we weren't even half way up the damn thing. I didn't have my PipBuck to calm me down and Zoey and Willow Wisp would probably think I’m weird singing out of the blue so I was forced to stay in a miserable mood until I was by myself.

The stairs had fallen apart on the thirteenth floor and we had to head on into the hallways of the hotel. It was fucking creepy, as in the wall and floor looked more moldy then cheese that’s been left out for five months, that’s how bad it was. It didn’t help hearing the creaking doors and floorboards under us. Seriously, why did it have to be like this?

“You okay Dead Hooves?” Zoey ask looking back to me in grave worry.

“I’m just really pissed off right now,” I tell her. “Why does this place have to look creepy? I fucking hate it.”

“Do you wanna wait?” She asks me. “Me and Willow can move up to the top and you can wait, it won't take super long.”

“You’re not leaving me here,” I tell her, she clearly didn’t get that it would only make this creepier. “I feel like a pair of creepy twins are going to come out of nowhere and murder me. I’m stay right next to you, got it?”

“Whatever you say,” Zoey responded, rolling her eyes at me. “Just know that the option to head back downstairs is only a few feet away right now.”

Shit, I didn’t think about going down. How was I going to get down in this thing, for all I know I would probably fall over and not be able to get back up. I would just have to be really careful, like making sure not to find a certain song on my PipBuck careful. That was still going to suck.

I followed closely next to Zoey before she stopped us next to a corner. I heard the sounds of ghouls around the corner and I peek around to see that there was three of them feeding of some old corps. I almost puked seeing that, but I managed to hold it in. I had seen worse things, not that I took it better but I had seen worse… Okay this was probably just as bad now that I think about this.

“I take the one on the left,” Zoey said. “You take the one in the middle. Willow, take the one on the right. We aim for the head and get this over with as quickly as possible.”

We nodded and I switch Remembrance out for the Novasurge rifle while the other two merely aim there Carbine and Repeater at the ghouls. I slow my breathing as I put my hoof on the trigger like the other two. I focus on the middle one, just like Zoey said and wait for Zoey to give the word. I watched as the ghoul on the right got up and looked at us, growling, and I looked to see Willow start shivering.

“Now!”

The two ponies next to meet let loose rounds into their targets but I wait as I realize something. The ghoul started running at me as I realized the gun need to charge in order to shoot. I start slowly backpedal as it got closer and closer before the Novasurge finally fire, putting a decent hole in its face as it fell to the ground lifeless. I was breathing pretty heavy but was pumped and in awe at what I had just done.

“Okay, I’m definitely keeping this,” I charge up my gun again and fire it at the door in front of me as I yell. “NOVASEURGE!” Blowing a hole in the door.

Willow Wisp was clearly laughing at me based on her facial expression and Zoey smiled and rolled her eyes at me. What could I say, something about saying Novasurge with a little bit of an accent was a little fun. I decided that’s what I would say whenever I fired it, not for convenience, but because it was fun.

We walked down the hall and opened the door to another flight of stairs. We were definitely much closer to the roof then we were before, but still had a good ways to go before hand. This time though we managed to get all the way to the top without any detours which was great. As we entered onto the roof, we were met by a roaring wind and the surround city. It's really amazing just how big the area we were in was. I looked around to see nothing but ruined buildings and the distant wilderness behind us.

We went up to the end and I got out of my power armor as me and Zoey scan the area using our rifles. The scope was really weird to us, I had to keep it very steady in order to get a clear glimpse of what was around me. I looked down at the streets to see things like ghouls and what I believed was hell hounds around us.

“Poor things,” Zoey said, looking at the same thing I was. “Most hell hounds are intelligent, but these things have had their brains melted or something by the radiation. Not that it would have mattered, they seem to have a bad reputation considering the raid on Tenpony five weeks ago.”

“I heard about that,” I told her remembering hearing the shaky voice of the news anchor. “Guess the scene must have been pretty gruesome.”

“You can say that again,” Zoey moved her carbine to the left before speaking again. “Dead Hooves, over here.”

I look through her gun to see a raider stand motionless in a building a few blocks away. That had to be the target Soarin had mentioned, no way it couldn’t be. Hard to believe he was still alive after looking through it and not seeing him move in anyway shape or form. I looked away as Zoey looked at me.

“We have sights of the target but my weapon isn’t able to reach that distance,” Zoey explains to me as she put it away. “I don’t think that Novasurge rifle would be able to either. We have to get closer to it in order to hit it. Be prepared to fight when we get back down,” Me and Willow nod our heads in response as we start making our way back inside.

“Got your back,” I tell her as we once again enter the building.

Author's Notes:

In case any of you are wondering, Soarin is the only character in the show that will be physically appearing in this fanfic. I may be stretching it a bit putting him in to began with but I still wanted to, mainly because I never see him mentioned in any side fics.

I'm actually making an exception here to the "must be five chapters ahead in writing" thing mainly because it's driving me crazy not being able to get chapters out at the same pace I was during the school year. Anyways, please like, comment, follow, and check out my other stories and I will see you all in the next chapter.