A new gang leader meant party-time the whole night. I drank a lot of beer, and got drunk, so I can’t remember much.

I can recall Pink being like an idiot, dancing around, not caring for anything and using drugs. The usual. One time I’ve got told by other raiders that they wanna have a ‘shortie’, but thankfully, I had a common sense and didn’t agree. Atleast I hope so. Doing it disgusted me since I was a filly. Probably that’s why.

The next day, I woke up with a huge pain in my head. I wanted to get up and get some medicine, but it wasn’t as easy as it sounded. I fell to the ground the moment I stood up, so I tried to crawl to a nearby medkit. It was horrible, the ground was cold, and I felt like I’m gonna pass out any moment. So I tried to focus as much as possible.

“Left… right… left… right…” I kept saying to myself, so my body might react and will move faster, or atleast I’ll be focused more.

My stomach growled, telling me that I was hungry and damn it was right. In fact, I was starving, when was the last time I ate?

Finally I reached my destination, so I tried to use my magic, but no use. I couldn’t even light up my horn. I had to do the earth pony way then. I stood up trying to balance myself with a nearby table, and hardly, but I made it. I focused on the small box, then reached for it with my right hoof while keeping my left one on the table.

I managed to open it, and grab something, but I got dizzy and fell down pushing anything out that was inside it.

“Fuck,” I murmured.

I grabbed something that looked like something that’s against headache, and swallowed several pills out of it, then fell asleep again.

I woke up again, but with less headache, and more hungriness. I was still lying on the ground. It was around the afternoon, so no wonder why was I that hungry. I got up, and started to go down the staircase.

“Wait, what the fuck,” I said surprised. I didn’t even realize that I was in the leader tower.

Oh right, I’m the gang leader now, so that’s why I was sleeping here. That means I should have some food here aswell.

“Guards!” I yelled and before I knew it, two raider came up.

“Yes ma’am,” they said simultaneously.

“What can I eat here? I’m starving!” I asked.

“Well, uhm, there’s the kitchen. You can eat there anything anytime,” replied the left one.

“Oh, alright then, get the fuck off now,” I said.

“Yes ma’am,” they said and left.

I went to the kitchen. It was a ‘homey’ and not big. In the middle there was a yellow carpet with orange stripes and holes in it. Next to the wall on the left side was a fridge and a table. On the right side there was an another table, but with chairs and plates. In the corner there was the stove.

I opened the fridge which was filled with all kinds of meats. Mostly radroaches, so I took some of it, turned on the stove and put the meat on top of it. After about five minutes I grabbed it (with magic, because it was hot) and put it on a plate and waited it to cool down a bit, then ate it. It wasn’t tasty, but it was okay.

After I finished I went outside the tower. On the yard there was still a lot of ponies sleeping all over the place. The day was calm, the sun was shining, no cloud anywhere.

“You’re here! Finally, I’ve been waiting for you,” - said Pink Wink. - “Are you excited? I’m excited, isn’t it exciting? We’re going on a mission together, just you and me.”

“Oh, the… the thing you wanted me to get, well, alright, why not,” I replied. It felt awesome knowing that noone could interfere with my decision now.

“I knew you’ll say that. Here your armor and weapons, get ready quick, I’m already ready with everything,” said Pink. She was jumping and bouncing all over the place. She was speaking so fast, I couldn’t understand some of her words. Thankfully I understand enough if it, so I put them on. The moment I was ready Pink grabbed me and launched herself outside with a huge jump.

“Wait, tell me where are we going,” I asked while I was trying to catch up with her. She was running really fast in front of me.

“To the manehatten ruins of course. That’s where it is,” she replied.

“It? And why are we running, something will happen to it soon, wd’ll have to rescue someone?” I asked her. Pink Wink stopped

“Oh, we don’t have to, don’t worry,” said Pink and started walking slower. I could catch up finally and get some air. She’s been running like this for like half an hour now. I thought she’ll stop or atleast slow down, but what was I thinking? We’re talking about Pink Wink. Silly me. I heard she laughed a bit, probably read my thoughts again…

“We’re here! The ruins, they bring me back old memories,” - she said and sniffed one. - “Let’s get going.”

“Here we need to go to the left, then right and after three house left again… or was it right? No, it was definitely left… Wait no, the first one was right, Uhhh I don’t know.”

“What? You don’t know where will we go to find the thing you’re looking for?” I asked, and started being angry.

“Well, uhm, you see. When I was packing my stuff, I kinda might’ve forgot to pack Super Party- Time Mint-als. You see, when you see yourself doing a lot of things at once you sometimes don’t realize that you didn’t do something,” she said and was really embarrassed.

“So, in short, we don’t know what will happen to us, right? Fuck!” I said.

“Well, not quite. You see, I still remember some, but the thing is, without it, I’ll might go an itsy bitsy crazy, so if you wanna get back alive, we should hurry. Being without SPT-Mint-als after all those time can make you do things you might don’t want. For example going completely mad, losing your mind and killing anyone around you until you get some.”

Oh, fucking luna on the moon. This mission turned too bad too fast.

“Let’s hurry then, but which way?” I growled. I was fucking annoyed and angry, but arguing with Pink Wink wouldn't help now. The clock was ticking.

“I’m sure it was on the left,” said Pink trying to calm me down.

We went that way then. The city was still an incredible sight. I heard tales about ponies living in these houses. They lived in peace, friendship and cared about eachother. What a pitiful era was that. The only way of living is to beat or be beaten.

Pink Wink was leading me through streets I haven’t seen yet.

“I found it! Yes, I knew it’ll be here, don’t worry, we’re almost done here,” said the pink mare as she jumped all around the place celebrating. We were in a dark street ending.

“Uhm, was that it? We’re done? Can we get back?”

“Oh, Cold Blood, obviously not. I’m looking for a special plant that can be found somewhere here,” she said and giggled.

“A plant? We came all the way here just for a fucking plant?” I yelled. This mission is just getting worse and pointless every minute…

“Trust me, it’ll worth it,” replied Pink Wink.

“Whatever, but you do realize we’re in a dark corner, and there isn’t any plant here,” I said. She just looked at me, then pointed to a hole which lead to the sewers.

“The fuck? You sure it’s down here? How can anything grow down there?” I asked her.

“Oh, don’t worry that much. I’m one-hundred percent sure it’s down here... i think,” she replied. I still didn’t know how much could I trust her, but I had no better choice.

“Alright, let’s get going,” I said and began climbing down and just after me, Pink Wink followed me too.

When we finally got down, the sewers were really dark, so I used my horn to light up the place. It didn’t help much, because my magic was red, but atleast we could see a bit.

The place stinked from rotten rats, dead radroaches and I don’t even know what else. The air was cold and dry. The channel was about two pony wide, but the ceiling wasn’t that tall. I could barely stand. Pink Wink finally catched up with me.

“Are you sure it’s here?” This place stinks,” I asked her. I was losing hope of this mission, but that was the least I could do to her. Plus I didn’t want lie to her, after all, who knows what would she do, if I don’t make it up for her.

“It will be here, don’t worry so much,” said Pink and then put her hoof on her head. She had a headache. Fuck, we’ve gotta hurry, who knows how much time does she has before she goes completely mad and tries to kill me.

“Let’s get going then,” I said. She nodded and started walking to the other direction.

That was for several minutes, meters after meters, we were just walking from the darkness to the darkness. I felt like a little dot in the void that surrounds us. Finally we reached an exit to a bigger place. The main channel. The air got much cleaner. And there was atleast some light coming from the surface.

“We’re really really really close now,” - announced Pink Wink. - “It’s just around the corner.”

“Finally, let’s get that fucking flower and leave this place,” I said.

“Scared, huh?” she said. I shook my head a bit telling her that I wasn’t, even if I was a bit already and started walking to the corner.

As we got closer and closer I noticed some green light coming out from the place we were going. Fuck, I forgot to bring any Rad-Away. Let’s just hole Pink brought some.

When we reached the corner there was a dead end about ten meters away. The room was filled with containers of wastes and some lime-green glowing gloo. In the middle of the room I saw some green plant , the plant we came here for.

“That’s why we came here for?” I asked.

“Yes, it’ll perfect my Super Party Time- Mint-als. It is one of the most rare plant of equestria. It grows in highly radiated places. One of my vision told me a long ago about this place and this plant. Since then, I couldn’t find any guide or help of how to get here, but until I met you,” explained Pink Wink.

“Alright, let’s get over it then,” I said.

“Wait, wait, don’t get yourself killed. Look!” she said and threw a small rock. It landed nearby the gloo, and just after a moment the gloo started moving and gaining height. In a few seconds it became the size of the room and went over the rock.

The small rock floated to the middle of the slime-thing and started to shrink until it disappeared.

“What the fuck? What is that?” I asked.

“It’s an elder glowing slime. It has 300 Rad-res 500 HP and has a huge poison damage. It slowly eats you if it gets you, so watch out for that.”

Pff, noone talks like that. But how are we gonna kill this thing.

“You know, those visions said that you’ll be able to kill this thing, but it didn’t say how. I thought I’ll know it when we get here, but I forgot the PTMs, so good luck,” said Pink Wink a bit embarrassed.

“Couldn’t you tell me that when you realized you forgot to bring drugs?” I asked angrily. This mission could’ve been much much simpler, safer and easier, but she just fucked things up. She just smiled and shrugged.

I guess I have no choice then, great. Just when I thought life will be easier. Fuck. How the fuck can I kill something that can eat rocks. I doubt shooting it will do any damage to it. I emptied my bag. A pistol, my sword, some grenades, a rifle and a laser weapon.

“We’re so fucked, half of these won’t even work.”

Alright, I gotta calm down a bit. The physical attacks won’t work, so pistol, sword and the rifle is off the list. All that’s left is the grenade and the laser rifle. Maybe the laser rifle could burn it? Worth a try, I guess.

I peaked out of the corner, aimed it and pulled the trigger a several times.

PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW!

The slime began to glow red where I hit it and started dissolving. I smiled a bit because of that, but then I noticed that it regenerated itself. Fucking fucks in the fucking ass. Only the grenade left, but using explosives underground is dangerous. The ceiling might collapse and who knows if it works, but I got nothing better now. I levitated the grenade in front of me and looked at Pink Wink in a questioning face.

“Are you sure we have everything we need to beat that thing?”

“Yup,” she replied but in a less energetic tone.

“Can’t we just go back to the camp and forget all of this?”

“Ohh, so you want to leave me behind and betray me?” said Pink in a spooky voice, while looking right in my eyes angrily.

“Oh, no no no, I was just playing around, we’ll totally get your flower and survive all of this,” I said trying to calm her down.

“Then DO IT Cold Blood, THROW THE GRENADE!” yelled Pink Wink. Oh fuck, she’s getting angry I don’t have much time, so I pulled the trigger and threw the grenade right inside the slime, which on contact swallowed it. I hid behind the corner, ducked and held my ears.

BOOOM!

The grenade exploded sending the gloo all around the place.

I looked out and didn’t see the monster anymore.

“We… did it, we actually managed to kill it,” I said happily, and walked to that mysterious plant and grabbed it. I looked back at Pink Wink who smiled a bit. I walked back to her and gave her the plant.

“There, now let’s hurry back before you kill me,” I said and put it in her bag.

“Oh, don’t worry silly, I kill someone when don’t get any SPTMs for a while,” said Pink and swallowed something.

“Hey, those… are… Super Party Time Mint-als?” I asked her angrily.

“Yup, want some?” she replied on a perfectly calmed and cheerful voice.

“If you had those, why the fuck didn't you take them? Or I don’t know tell me what to do, or atleast not scare me with you killing me, you fucking son of a bitch.” I yelled at her. She was just fucking playing with me all along? What. The. Fuck.

“Uhm, Cold Blood,”

“No, I don’t care if you knew all of this,”

“But Cold Blood, you gotta,”

“Oh, yes I gotta do this, I gotta do that, fuck you PInk, stop playing around, this is serious, what if I didn’t do what you thought I’ll do,”

“Stop talking! Look!,” she yelled.

“Uh, what?” I asked and turned around. The gloo was moving to a bigger pile of gloo. The slime was… Still alive?

“Oh fuck, oh fuck,” I said and started walking backwards. Pink Wink was frozen from the shock.

“Common, we’ve gotta get out from here,” I said as I trotted away while grabbing Pink’s tail and pulling her with my magic. I looked back and saw the green gloo following us about a meter behind.

“I… I didn’t know this will happen,” said Pink Wink, still shocked.

“Don’t give a fuck about that, just start to run, I can’t pull you much longer,” I said and dropped her. The pink mare blinked once, then realized the situation and as if she was a bullet started running really fast. She even outrun me, which might be better because she knows the way outside.

We got to the smaller channel really fast and kept running to the exit. When we finally reached it Pink jumped out and I climbed up just before the monster reached me.

It started to get dark and cold outside. How long have we’ve been down there? The buildings surrounded us, so it was even darker there.

“Do you think it can climb up,” I asked her, while trying to catch my breath.

“Uhh, hold on,” she said starting to think. - “Yes, it will,” said Pink finally regaining her future vision.

“Fucking hell, what to do?” I asked her in panic.

“Nothing, we’ve gotta run, it lives in highly radiated places, without it, it’ll die,” she explained, and just as she finished the slime emerged from underground and grew to it’s full size.

“Fuck, let's go!” I yelled, but Pink Wink was already running. I followed her without a thought. When we finally reached the border of the ruins.

I looked back, but didn’t see a sight of that fucking slime.

“We got away, no worries,” said Pink calmed but breathing heavily.

“Okay, thank celestia,” I said.

“We should settle down for the night though. You don’t wanna know what would attack us in the night if we go on,” said Pink Wink. And so we did. I got some wood from a nearby tree and made a small campfire. I casted a fire spell and we had a nice little campfire in no time.

I didn’t realize it until then, but I was really tired, so the moment I lied down I fell asleep.

The sun in the morning woke me up. It was cold and I felt weak and hungry. Not so long after me woke up Pink Wink too.

“Let’s hurry back before anything happens,” I said and Pink Wink nodded.

And so we started walking back to the camp. The road was calm and quiet. No encounters thankfully. I had enough of them for a while.

We got back to the camp around midday. The raiders were already awake, but didn’t ask me where I was. It was okay for the leader to leave, after all, they decided on who goes where when.

“I’ll go and cook up something,” said Pink and winked. She was going to make the drug already? Though she had no reason to not do it.

“Okay,” I said and she was already gone. I went in my tower to get something to eat. There was already a plate of radroach on my table. Probably someone was asked to make food in case the leader wasn’t there. You usually get really hungry when you’re on a mission for a while. This was just a bit of luxury the leader got.

It tasted unusually good, though everything tastes much better if you don’t eat for a whole day. After I finished I put down the weapons and armor I had in the armory and went to bed. Sure I already slept about an hour ago, but I was still really tired. I fell asleep fast.

When I woke up someone was standing next to my bed. A short black haired unicorn stallion with dark blue coat.

“The fuck are you doing here?” I murmured.

“Ma’am, I’m here to report something,” he said.

“Ugh, fine, what is it?” I asked him, a bit annoyed.

“A mare called Pink Wink is dead,” he said.

“Yeah, yeah, sure, wait what?!” I asked in surprise. She couldn't die. Nopony can kill her, she… she can predict everything.

“What the fuck, how, when who did it,” I questioned him in desperation.

“We’ve found her dead body in the living quarters with a video tape signed to you,” - said the raider pony, not showing any feeling and put a tape on my bed. - “That’s all, I’ll be leaving now,” he finished and left the room.

“The fucking fuck happened with her?!” I cried out in anger. I grabbed the tape and put it in the video player.

“This message is meant to Cold Blood and only her. Stop watching and give it to her, thank you, and fuck you if you’re still watching.”

She was standing in front of the camera in a some kind of kitchen. She looked unusually calm and normal. I’ve never seen her like that.

“Hey Cold Blood, I am Pink Wink,” - she smiled. - “When you’re watching this I am already dead. Turns out the upgraded version of Super Party- Mint-als is pretty much clean toxic for ponykind. It has advantages too though. For example I finally go to a new high level. When you're so high it just turns around and you became… pretty much normal and it feels awesome. My powers are above everything. But I don’t have much time to tell you all of it. About 18 seconds left of me. So remember the last thing, ‘cause you’ll need it. Friendship is magic, and good bye,” she finished with a bit of teardrop in her eyes then turned off the camera.

“Fucking celestia fuck them in the ass of the moon. The only pony I cared a bit about and now she’s dead, ‘cause of her drug addiction,” I yelled as I started crying. I never cried of sadness before. I never was sad, sure I was angry and hated everypony around me, and when they raped me as a filly I cried, but none of that was because of sadness. Aren’t we supposed to not have feelings, heck even my name says that, but now… I don’t know what to do.

Pink Wink was dead, she truly was. She could’ve predicted her death, but maybe her drug addiction spoke out of her and killed her. Fucking shit on luna’s butt.

And after all of that she leaves me with another message, which is pretty much the opposite of what a raider is supposed to stand for. I mean, really friendship? Feelings? What the heck?

I heard stories about a fucker who killed our kind without a second though. She and her friends. Am I supposed to be like them? Like those fucking ponies who called themselves Bringer of light or something like that. What the fuck in fucking hell and worse.

And there I was still, crying on my bed, because of her. I thought I liked her only because of her powers, but I wouldn’t cry just for that. I’d be angry, but not sad.

I kept thinking, founding myself in a dead end of thoughts that I cared for someone and I didn’t know why or how I didn’t realize it, and why only now, but eventually I fell asleep… again…

Footnote: Level up! Slime fighter.

Damage bonus to any kind of laser weapon or explosives.