The diamond dogs kept a claw or two near us at all times to make sure we didn’t try to do anything stupid. As we walked through the museum I saw holes scattered along the ground along with bones of what I assumed were mutants that the diamond dogs had killed.

I looked into one of the rooms and saw what looked like the dish DJ-PON3 had spoken of. I made a mental note of where the room was so we could stop by quickly if we needed to get out in a hurry.

“Where are you taking us?” Harmony looked around at all of the holes.

The diamond dog behind me spoke. “We are taking you to see the king so he can decide your fate. It is our tradition here. If he let’s you live we’ll take some of your food and a weapon or two and send you away from here. We have enough trouble around here without outsiders coming in and ruining the way we live.”

We turned down a corridor that ended in a staircase leading down. The staircase looked like somepony had built it after the world went to tartarus. The stairs themselves were stone slabs placed on top of dirt. We didn’t walk long before we were at the bottom of the stairs and on the precipice of a throne room.

“Who have you brought me this time?” A single diamond dog sat at the end of the room on a throne made of solid gold and encrusted with many gemstones. The king unlike all the other diamond dogs we had seen was pure white with claws that might have been as long as my horn.

“We have brought to you a couple of ponies who broke their way in here. By the looks of it they also killed the behemoth.” The diamond dogs pushed us forward.

“They killed the behemoth? Well I suppose someone had to do it eventually. Tell me how did you kill the behemoth? The armor would help you to survive an indirect hit but you must have some heavy firepower if you two brought that thing down by yourselves. Show me the weapons you used to kill it.” The king leaned forward in his throne.

I hesitated for a few seconds before drawing out the Revolving Sun and the gauss rifle. “These are the weapons we used to kill it.”

The guns were taken from my magic and presented to the king. He picked up the gauss rifle first and put it to his shoulder.

“Interesting. And I take it the revolver had some sort of special ammunition. Couldn’t have possibly killed the behemoth without it.” The king tossed us back our weapons. “Now what is it that you seek here in my kingdom that is so worth dying for?” He leaned back in his throne.

“We came seeking a signal enhancing radio dish so that a friend of ours could send his message farther out into the wasteland.” I took the weapons and slid them back into my saddlebags.

The king laughed. “I know why it is that you came here. Like all the other groups before you, you came for that stupid dish to return it to DJ-PON3. We’ve had five or six groups in the last four months come and ask us for that dish.” He stood up from his throne.

“Then why have they not returned back?” I kept my eyes on Aurora as she targeted each of the diamond dogs.

The king took two steps towards me. “They went about getting the dish in the worst way possible. When my guards captured them they killed them and broke into this museum. When they went to try and get the disk my warriors dug the ground out from underneath the intruders and killed them. Then we used their bodies as food for ourselves. You would do yourselves well if you listened to us and didn’t try anything.” He put one claw beneath my chin.

I let my head be lifted so I was looking at the king. “All we want is the dish and nothing else. We’ll leave here immediately after we get the dish.” I cast a glance at Aurora.

The king shook his head. “You won’t get off that easy. We need you to do a few things for us and then you may leave this place and never return.” The king went back to his throne.

“What do you want us to do?” I was getting ready to shoot all of the diamond dogs in this room.

“What we want is many things but I’ll keep it simply so your small brain can comprehend what we want. First we want you to help us wage war against the mutants who plague this city with their existence. After that you can have the dish and take it to DJ-PON3. Deliver the message to him that we want none of your kind to return to this town. We have to much to deal with without morons like you waltzing into my kingdom and doing stupid things.” The king tapped on his throne.

“We kill some mutants and you’ll let us leave. Sounds like a deal to me.” I stayed where I was.

“Well it was that or you were going to be food so you don’t have any choice in the matter. Now you will need to clear at least four buildings that we have designated in order to leave. So get to work and I might not feast upon your intestines.” The king waved us away.

We stood up and were being pushed towards the exit. “How will we know which ones are the ones you designated?” I had a claw at my throat.

The king did not respond, one of his filthy guards did. “They will have large scratch marks around the doors. Now shut up and move.” He pushed me up the stairs.

The guards took us as far as the front door before leaving us on our own.

Harmony took a look back at the door. “We could have killed them. Now we have to do their dirty work. I’m so tired of always taking a backseat and having to play as somepony’s bitch.” She sighed. “Whatever. I say let’s get this stupid shit done for them so we can get the buck out of here.”

I had never heard so much profanity out of Harmony’s mouth at once. Even when we were together she never swore like that. I reached out to her with my hoof.

“Harmony. I don’t like this either but what choice do we have? I’ve read the information Aurora has given me on the diamond dogs and they aren’t something to buck with. If they had wanted to they could have cut our heads off like they were cutting a piece of string.” I shook her a few times for effect.

Harmony pushed my hoof of her shoulder. “I know what they can do. I do have the database as well. I am just tired of not being the one in charge. You’re a great leader and I would follow you to the gates of tartarus, but could I make the decisions for a day? Just so I can get it out of my system.”

I sighed. “As long as your plan isn’t to try and kill the diamond dogs then I will fully support you.” I looked around.

“Thank you Midnight. You won’t regret this.” Harmony hugged me.

I smiled. “If I do anything with you I know I won’t regret it.” I held Harmony in my hooves for a few minutes before letting go.

Harmony took point and started down the road opposite the one we came in on. We trotted for five minutes before Harmony stopped us at the door of a building.

I looked around the entrance to see that it had the claw marks that the king had spoken of. “So what is your plan on how to take this place?” I put a hoof on the door.

Harmony threw the door open with her magic and pulled the shotgun out of my saddlebags. “We go in guns blazing and kill anything that moves. Draw your .44 and the .32 if you still have it and let’s burn this bitch to the ground.” Harmony charged into the first room.

I trotted after her as I heard the shotgun fire multiple times in rapid succession. When I entered the room Harmony was in she had the shotgun pressed down on a mutant's face. Two more mutants that were alive were slowly sneaking up on her with piece of rebar with one end covered in cement.

I brought both of my guns to the back of the mutant’s heads and pulled the triggers killing them where they stood. Harmony looked the last mutant in the eye before pulling the trigger splattering his brains around the floor.

I looked around again to see that Harmony had slaughtered four mutants before they even had a chance to react. “Well that was something. Would you mind not charging into a room without me again? These ponies might not have good weapons but they might not need advanced weapons to kill us. They do have strength in numbers.” I levitated one of the rebar clubs away from the mutant closest to me.

Harmony looked at me and I could tell she was grinning. “I won’t charge off again but I am going to take out my pent up anger on these bastards. I’ve been just getting bucked sideways for too long to let it build up any longer. Today is the day I let it all out.” Harmony trotted out the door.

I followed her and stopped when I saw the large group of mutants that stood before us. I took a quick look around the room for anything that might help us. I didn’t have to look far as I saw a grenade that Harmony had in her magic. The pin fell to the floor and Harmony pulled me back into the room we had just exited.

I waited a few seconds expecting the grenade to explode. I took my hooves away from where my ears were as the grenade exploded. I looked out the door to see little bits of the mutants fly by and a puddle of blood start to roll over the floor.

I pulled myself up and trotted out the door. None of the mutants who had surrounded us had gone unscathed. For those close to the blast they had been killed instantly and ripped into a bunch of pieces. Those that were farther away had been riddled by the shrapnel and were slowly bleeding to death.

I pulled out my revolvers and started putting the mutants out of their misery. I stopped after I saw Harmony start trotting farther into the building. I galloped after her holstering my pistols and preparing to swing the rebar club.

I caught up to Harmony and jumped in front of her. Harmony simply pushed me out of her way and continued farther into the building. I sighed and started checking the rooms as we passed them by. Most of the mutants had come and tried to fight us after our initial wave of gunfire. The next time we saw a mutant was when we reached the staircase.

The mutant jumped out in front of Harmony and was greeted promptly with a shot to the face. Harmony kept trotting and smashed the mutants skull in with his rebar club. I stepped over the gore and kept pace with Harmony as she walked upstairs.

I kept my eyes peeled as we went just to make sure none of the mutants snuck up on us. We trotted through the rest of the building without seeing one mutant. Harmony stopped at a window in the last room we had to clear.

I trotted up next to her and looked out over the remains of the city. I could see a casino in the distance. “So. Do you want to explain what all of what just happened was about?” I kept my eyes on the horizon.

Harmony laughed. “We all have our own demons Midnight. Sometimes we have to let them win for a while so we can keep our sanity and not hurt those that we love. This was just me letting my demons win for a little while so I didn’t do anything that might make you want to leave me. As you’ve seen I’m not usually like this but every now and again I have to let my anger out and stop repressing it.” Harmony kept looking out the window.

I thought for a few second. “I guess you’re right. I haven’t really come to terms with that quite yet. Maybe one day I’ll be able to handle this stuff as well as you. Until then we should probably rest. The sun is setting and I’m not sure I want to be out in this city at night.” I stepped away from the window.

“Usually I would agree with you but today I’m in charge so I say we press forward and clear out a few more buildings before we quit. The sooner we get them cleared the sooner we can leave and go home.” Harmony trotted out the door and began her search for a specific room.

I followed Harmony not even thinking about what it is that she was looking for. When we reached the room Harmony knelt down next to the door and started to pick the lock.

I looked around for something productive I could do while I waited but saw nothing except for the lone mutants corpse. I levitated his body into one of the open rooms and closed the door. I looked down just as Harmony pushed the door open.

“Nice job.” I trotted through the open door.

The room was a small clinic. I didn’t expect to find much in here since this was a school but I figured looking around wouldn’t hurt. Harmony got right to work on hacking into a terminal.

I looked around and found two safes in the room. The one below the desk was probably linked to the terminal Harmony was working on. I trotted over to the wall safe and started to pick the lock.

The first time I tried to pick the lock ended in a broken lockpick and no knowledge of where the sweet spot was. I tried again and almost had the safe unlocked when my bobby pin broke.

I sighed and discarded the pieces. I pulled out my last bobby pin and unlocked the safe. Inside was a few bobby pins scattered about. I levitated them into the little box I had for them. A few health potions were pushed off to the side. I cleared the contents of the safe quickly.

I was about to close the safe when Harmony pushed the door of it to the wall. “You missed something.”

I looked into the safe to see I had indeed missed something. I levitated the little tin out and blew the dust off of it. The tin was labeled as mintels.

I read the slogan on the side outloud. “Guaranteed to make anypony tell you what you want to know.” I was compelled to face hoof at how bad that slogan was. The zebra on the side had a sparkle in the top right corner of his eyes.

I took off my helmet and set it on the desk. I opened the tin and pulled one of the little white mints out and put it in my mouth. After taking one bite of the mintels I wanted to do nothing more than shove the rest of the tin’s contents into my mouth.

“Midnight.” Aurora appeared next to me and gave me dirty looks. “You do realize that those are addictive don’t you?”

I thought for a few seconds before speaking. “I realize but as we’ve seen I’m not one to get addicted easily.” I felt like I could convince Celestia herself to do something she usually wouldn’t.

“Yeah I’m not falling for that. Harmony if you would please take those stupid things away from Midnight.” Aurora turned to see Harmony looting the floor safe.

I watched as she pulled out a few more tins like the one I had pulled out. I looked down at my tin again and put a few more mintels into my mouth. I slid the tin into my saddlebags and acted like nothing happened. I quickly grabbed my helmet and slid it back on so Harmony couldn’t see my face.

Harmony took one last look before shutting the floor safe. She deposited the remaining mintel tins into her saddlebags. “Now what was this about taking something from Midnight?” Harmony trotted over to me.

Aurora did that thing that she did with my inventory and brought the mintels to the top of my saddlebags. “She just ate about four of these.”

Harmony picked up the tin. “Look Aurora I understand your concern so I will take these from Midnight. But just to let you know the only thing I’ve ever taken from Midnight is her virginity. So this will probably be the only thing other than that that I take.”

I wanted to eat a few more of those mintels but knew I wouldn’t be able to talk Harmony into giving me any more. I pouted underneath my helmet.

“Midnight how do you feel?” Aurora appeared on my HUD.

“I feel pretty good.” I was trying to lie my way out of the amazing feeling I was currently feeling because of the mintels. “A little bit tired but pretty good.”

“Yeah I don’t believe you. From now on anytime you try and take an addictive substance I’m going to sound an alarm so Harmony can stop you.” Aurora played a little alarm in my ears.

“Yeah that’s not going to get annoying.” My voice was dripping with sarcasm.

Harmony shook her head and dragged me out the door. I began trotting and she let go of me. I trotted next to her as we trotted out the building.

“I like the looks of that building over there.” I pointed to a hospital building that I could see claw marks on.

“So do I. Let’s go and look for some more medical supplies. Aurora do ring an alarm if Midnight finds any more addictive drugs.” Harmony trotted off leaving me to stare down Aurora.

I whispered to Aurora. “This is all your fault. I’m going to restrict your access from those files.” I would have pulled the folder up but Aurora was blocking me from doing so.

“I don’t think so my dear. I wanted to make sure my daughter didn’t use the armor to hide something from me. I have authority over everything that this suit has in its databases. Good luck trying to block me.” Aurora disappeared off of my HUD.

I galloped to catch up with Harmony. I was not sure when this feeling would wear off but I knew I didn’t want it to ever go away. I felt so alert and ready for anything.

We reached the door and I wasn’t paying attention and ran muzzle first through the glass doors. I skidded to a stop and fell forward. I would have been worried about the glass if I wasn’t wearing a full body suit.

“Midnight you really need to watch where you’re going. Celestia forbid we have you run into another mares rear end again. Now get up and let’s clear this place out.” Harmony dragged me to my hooves with her magic.

“Yeah okay. I was just eager to get in here and clear this place out so we can go home.” I felt good, like I had just succeeded at something.

“Yeah so am I but you need to watch where you’re going.” Harmony pulled out the shotgun and pointed it at the tip of my horn. “Duck.”

I turned my head to see a mutant charging me. I slammed my body to the floor again. I could hear the pellets from the shotgun shell whizz by as I tried to stay as low as possible.

I pulled out the rebar club and swung at the next mutant I saw. The stun was enough to knock the weapon from his teeth and send him to the floor. I took the next swing and bashed the mutant’s skull to bits.

Harmony had trotted past me and was firing the shotgun at more mutants. I galloped over to her and slammed the rebar club I wielded into one of the mutants. This time the club smashed the mutant into a wall crushing his skull and killing him.

I continued to swing the club wildly until all of the mutants were dead. I had a wicked smile on my face and found that I was actually drawing pleasure from killing these mutants. I stared at one of the mutants as I pulverized his body with the rebar club.

Harmony tapped on my shoulder and grabbed ahold of the club with her magic. “Midnight I think you need to calm down just a little bit. I know you and this isn’t you.” Harmony waved her hoof towards the mutant that I had been pulverizing.

I looked between Harmony, the club, and the mutant before finally snapping out of whatever it was that came over me. I dropped the club and myself to the floor.

I had a bad feeling in my stomach. I felt like I was going to throw up. “Guess I let things get a little out of control.” I lifted my helmet off. “Just give me one second.

I throw up on the ground at Harmony’s feet. After voiding my stomach again I sat there trying to not look at the dead mutant to my left.

“Better?” Harmony dragged me back to my hooves.

I grabbed my helmet and slid it back on. “Yeah.” In that moment I finally felt the full effects of coming off of the mintels. “Just a little bit slow. I think whatever was in those stupid mintels is affecting my brain.”

“I told you those would do that.” Aurora appeared on my HUD again.

I wanted to tell her she didn’t but part of me told me that she did even though I knew she didn’t. “I guess you did. Probably should have listened to you.” I waited a few seconds before letting my brain slip. “Can I have another one?” I wanted to facehoof for asking that.

Harmony shook her head at me. “I’m not going to feed your addiction to these stupid things.” She shook around one of the tins. “I’ve seen what addiction does to ponies and it is not pretty. So you are not going to get ahold of these again.”

“I know. Part of my brain just craves them. Just need to not think about them.” I stood back up.

I regretted most of what had just happened. After standing up my world started to spin and I had the urge to puke again. I held it in and fought my way through my withdrawal symptoms.

Harmony saw me swaying and reached out to me with her magic. “Next time we get to a town you are going to a doctor so you can get cured of you addictions. I’m not going to have you like this for long though. Stay here and rest. Aurora.” Harmony kept me on my feet.

Aurora appeared next to me. “What do you need Harmony?” Aurora made my armor stiffen so I couldn’t move.

Harmony released me. “I need you to watch over Midnight while I clear out the rest of these buildings so we can leave. Can you use her armor to fight?” Harmony started to pull pieces of my armor off of me.

Aurora scrunched her one eye closed in thought. “If you give me a few weapons I can control her battle saddle and parts of the armor so I can cover her if you find a good spot to put her.”

I stepped out of the last bits of my armor and slid to the ground. My brain felt like it had been scrambled and any semblance of thought was not coming to me. I sat there not thinking much other than about taking a nap. I yawned.

“I can make a corridor for you to guard if that’s what you need.” Harmony started to move rubble inside the building around to build a fortified place for me to sleep.

Aurora nodded. “A corridor would be best. Without Midnight using the armor I can only rotate the weapons a small bit.”

Harmony finished building the corridor and started moving myself and my armor into it. She put me down on the ground softly at positioned my armor directly in front of me.

“Now you two just stay here. Midnight I’ll be back in a little bit.” Harmony turned her helmet flashlight on.

I tried to respond. “O.. K..” I couldn’t continue and went to sleep.

Harmony’s POV

I laid Midnight down on the ground as gently as I possibly could. I was surprised after all this time dragging her along that she was this heavy. From her frame I wouldn’t expect her to way anywhere near as much as she did.

I set up the armor in front of her and set it to sentry mode. Aurora flashed a small red light at me to tell me I had set everything up correctly so she could protect my lover to the best of her abilities.

“Now you two just stay here. Midnight I’ll be back in a little bit.” I turned on my flashlight.

Midnight tried to speak. “O… K…” She slid into sleep.

I shook my head with a smile. Aurora appeared and waved me off. I nodded and gave one last look to Midnight.

Midnight was always cute when she was asleep. My eyes were drawn to her flank.

I had known from the beginning that she came from a stable and that she was the overmare’s daughter but every night I wondered what her cutiemark meant. I had been with her enough times that I had almost memorized her cutiemark.

A stable door stood proudly upon her flank. I knew that Midnight if she stayed in the stable was destined to become the overmare but she absolutely hated being in power like that. Even in our small group I could tell that she didn’t like to be the one that we all looked to for what to do.

I trotted up the first flight of stairs. None of the rooms had doors on them and what remained was scrap heaps of old hospital beds and operating tables.

I found a map on the wall and stopped to have a look. If this place still had any medical supplies they would be located on the top floor in the administrator’s office. I kept that in mind as I trotted down the hallways looking for anything of use.

The last door on the floor before the staircase was closed. I looked through the glass window in hopes that the inside was untouched. I looked inside to see a slime like substance squirming around the floor.

The slime creature took notice to me looking at it. It turned around and bared a pair of fangs at me. The creature was entirely black and nearly invisible in the darkness.

I took a step back as it jumped towards me. It hit the door cracking the glass between us. I took one step to many backwards and tripped backwards into the room behind me.

I heard it before I saw it. One of the slime creatures was in this room and it was moving closer. I jumped to my hooves and pulled out the shotgun Midnight had let me use. I swept the entire room not seeing the creature before I saw a safe being moved across the floor.

As soon as I shined my flashlight on it the creature turned towards me with it’s fangs bared. I levitated the shotgun closer to it and fire a shell into the abyss that was the creature's flesh. The shot did nothing more than anger the creature. I continued firing until I had emptied my shotgun into the blob.

The repeated shots had slowed it but the blob was still moving towards me. I knew I had little time to figure out something. Out of desperation I pulled out the gauss rifle and fired into the blob. This time instead of becoming angry the blob stopped moving and started to melt.

I waited until the blob disappeared before I approached the safe. I went to work picking the lock. Every noise that happened kept me on edge as I waited for another of those stupid things to charge at me.

The lock on the safe was a bit difficult and cost me three bobby pins before I finally unlocked it. I swung the door open to find a treasure trove of goodies.

A few high strength health potions and some purified water sat at the very front of the safe. I swept them into my saddlebags and continued looking. A few small boxes of bobby pins were next. I put all of the bobby pins I had into a single box.

Somepony had gathered a large stash of drugs. I looked for a few seconds before moving on from the large pile of drugs. A few bottles of anti-radiation pills and some radiation purging liquid sat in the back of the safe. I gathered up the drugs and set them to the side.

“Holy shit.” In the back of the safe next to the anti-radiation pills was ammo for the gauss rifle.

Somepony had apparently been here before me and was looking to clear this place out. I swept the rest of the contents of the safe up and shut the safe. I took another look at the drugs.

“Buck.” I grabbed all the drugs and stuffed them into the bottom of my saddlebags. “Really hope Midnight doesn’t find those.” I trotted out into the hallway.

I trotted up to the locked door and kicked at it a few times. The door was unstable enough that I would be able to kick it down. I turned around and bucked the door as hard as I could.

The door fell off it’s hinges onto the blob monster that was on the other side. I pulled the gauss rifle up and fired once. The shot hit the door on top of the monster and I had to retreat when it lunged at me.

“Son of a bitch.” I put the gun low to the ground and pulled the trigger again.

This time the shot hit home and started to dissolve. I stepped away from the dissolving blob and trotted upstairs.

This time all of the doors were closed. I trotted up to the first one and nearly had a heartattack. One of the stupid blob monsters flung itself towards the window. I nearly smashed the door open swinging the gauss rifle towards it.

I sighed forcefully. “Stupid motherbuckers.”

I continued trotting down the hall jumping away from each door as I went. Behind every door was one or more of the stupid blob monsters.

I trotted about halfway up the stairs before I decided I wanted to put a name to these creatures. I looked through the entire database but I didn’t find any creature like the ones I was fighting.

“That is odd. Guess I’ll just make a new entry.” I started to make a new entry for these creatures.

“Let’s see. Gelatinous blob with two razor sharp fangs. Melts when you kill it. Weakness? Gauss rifle or energy weapons.” I looked over my entry, it was sloppy but it might do if somepony needed information. I hit the submit button and moved on.

The third floor of the hospital was for employees. At the end of the hall was a room which should contain all of the medical supplies that were left. With any luck the mutants and the diamond dogs might not have raided it yet.

I kept my eyes moving looking for anything that might try to kill me. Luckily all of the doors were open so if anything was in them I could find them before they ambushed me. I trotted down to the end of the hall without seeing anything.

I pushed on the final door to find it locked. I pulled out a bobby pin and a began to pick the lock.

Every few seconds I would look around because I was paranoid that something was going to sneak up on me and kill me. Because of my damned paranoia I lost one quarter of the bobby pins that I had.

I broke one last lock pick. “Son of a bitch, motherbucking, dick sucking, buck.” I tried one last time and got it. “Bucking finally. Celestia damn this whole bucking place.”

I slammed the door open and galloped inside. Nothing evil was in the room with me so I slammed the door shut and dropped a filing cabinet down in front of it.

I breathed a sigh of relief. “Now then. Just need to find the medical safe.” I looked around the room.

The one distinct thing in the room was a terminal that still worked. I trotted up to it and turned it on. I was hoping for a challenge with the computer being locked. The terminal opened up revealing all of it’s secrets to me like a drunk Midnight.

“Oh well.” I clicked the button and unlocked the safe.

A small door to my left swung open and a light turned on. The inside of the safe was illuminated by one small light bulb.

The contents of the safe were much like the one I had looted downstairs. I swept everything into my saddlebags not caring what it was. I almost closed the safe, but I saw something hidden in the back in a small black package.

“What the hay?” I grabbed the little package and opened it.

Inside the package was a pill designed to purge the negative effects of addiction. A small note was attached.

“Please daddy. We miss you and want you back. Please use this and come home. I want to see you again.” The note had been written by a filly.

I let one tear escape from my eyes. I slid the note into my saddlebags carefully before taking a closer look at the package.

I read the back. “Oh Midnight’s not gonna like that. She’ll just have to deal with it.” I kept the suppositories close to the top of my saddlebags.

I heard gunfire coming from downstairs. “Shit.” I threw the filing cabinet out of my way and rammed into the door.

The door was unlocked but something was blocking the other side. I tried to pry the door free but couldn’t.

“Shit. Shit. Shit.” I looked around.

The floors in this hospital seemed a bit weak. I picked up the desk and slammed it into the ground. The floorboards splintered but didn’t quite break. I picked up the desk again and slammed it through the floor.

I jumped down through the hole. I knew that the blob creatures were going to be down here so I pulled out the gauss rifle.

“What the buck? Where are they?” None of the blob creatures were anywhere to be seen.

All of the doors were closed and I could see bars on them from inside the room.

I shook my head and picked up the desk again. It was about to fall apart so I might get one or two more uses out of it. I slammed it into the ground twice before it shattered into pieces leaving a hole in the floor too small for me to jump through.

I was really not happy as the gunfire continued from where Midnight and Aurora were. I looked around for anything that I might be able to use to break through the floor. Nothing of much use was anywhere to be seen.

“Shit.” I pulled out one of the mines I had procured from that weird shopkeeper in New Appleloosa. “Hold on Midnight I’m coming.”

I armed the mine and slammed it down onto the floor. It didn’t explode. I grabbed a book off of a bedside table and slammed it into the mine. The explosion was mostly directed downwards finally blowing a hole big enough for me to jump through.

I jumped downstairs with the gauss rifle at the ready. My first sight was that of the blobs getting closer as Aurora kept firing. Midnight was stirring from her sleep.

I shot at the blob closest to my love. “Get away from her you bastards.” I let out a growl.

The blobs looked to me. All of their fangs were aimed towards me.

I reloaded the gauss rifle and fired at the next blob. The shot hit two of the disgusting bucks killing them both. Four remained and two of them were getting close to Aurora.

I fired twice more before the gauss rifle ran out of ammo. “Aurora there weakness is energy weapons. Do we have any?” I looked through my inventory.

Aurora jumped out of the armor and back towards Midnight. “Yeah the one you left with Midnight.”

I picked up the pistol laying near midnight. I didn’t have much ammo for it but nothing else was going to work against these buckers. I fired two times at each blob drawing their attention away from Midnight.

“Come get some you little shits.” I unloaded half of my remaining magazine into one of the blobs.

The stupid thing finally melted down leaving it’s teeth behind. I put my focus on the blob approaching me. I fired the rest of my loaded magazine into the blob.

It stopped for a few seconds before baring it’s fangs. I reached out with my magic and ripped the fangs away.

The blob scurried back away from me. I put the teeth on the ground and smashed them under my hoof. The blob melted into the floor boards leaving us.

Midnight’s POV

I was rudely awoken by the sounds of repeated gunshots. I had been having the worst fever dream I had ever had in my life. Harmony was by my side stroking my mane. Aurora was in front of me shining a flashlight in my eyes.

“What’s going on?” I blinked as the light blinded me.

“Just be quiet Midnight. I know you’re not going to like this but it’s going to help you.” Harmony grabbed ahold of my plot in her magic.

“What are you doing?” I yelped as Harmony shoved something up my plot.

“I found something to cure you of your addictions unfortunately for you it was a suppository.” Harmony kept me held down with her magic.

My brain was starting to clear up. “Who would make a pill like that? Nopony likes that.” I shook my head.

Aurora disappeared from my sight. “You’d be surprised how many ponies like that. Maybe you should talk to Onyx and Demo.” I could hear Aurora and Harmony giggling.

“Shut up and let me up.” I struggled against Harmony’s magic.

Harmony just pushed me to the ground. “Give it a little bit longer to take full effect. Besides it might be uncomfortable to walk with it if you get up now.” Harmony waited a few more seconds before letting me go.

I got to my hooves and was immediately uncomfortable. “Did you have to ram that stupid thing in there so hard?” I winced as I rolled my flanks and my legs.

Harmony held the package up for me to read. “It did say to get the pill up there as far as possible. I was just following instructions.” Harmony tapped on both of my flanks.

I winced. “Yeah thanks. Plots gonna be sore for a week.” I started putting my armor back on.

Harmony helped me into my armor. “I’m sorry. Would you like a massage?” Harmony kissed me before putting both our helmets on.

I grumbled. “You’re going to need to give me more than a massage to cover this.”

Harmony cooed at me. “How about we try anal. I’ve got a few toys you might like.” I could tell she was winking at me.

“Keep this up you aren’t getting any from me.” I flicked my tail at her.

I checked my pipbuck. An hour or so had passed since I had fallen asleep. I was still tired but I knew I could go on for a little while longer before I had to sleep.

“How are you feeling Harmony?” I looked back to her.

Harmony yawned. “Just a little tired. I can go for another building to clear before we stop.” Her head drooped.

“One more and then we stop for some well deserved rest.” I pushed open the front doors of the hospital.

Only a few more buildings still remained that had been marked by the diamond dogs. The closest one was next door and it was a small residential building.

I trotted over to the door. “After this house we are stopping for whatever remains of the night.” I looked back to Harmony.

Harmony was about halfway down to the ground before I caught her. I could hear her snoring as I held her in place with magic.

“You silly filly.” I shook my head and opened the door.

I found a place for Harmony to sleep and stripped her of her armor. I set it back up in sentry mode so Aurora could guard her.

“I’ll be back in a few minutes.” I trotted towards the only door inside the house.

The door was unlocked so I pushed it open and trotted inside. I turned on my flashlight and looked around. Somepony had acquired a fair stash of scrap metal.

I looked around and started stuffing scrap metal into my saddlebags. It took me all of one minute to fill up the remaining space in my saddlebags.

I trotted back into the livingroom. I stripped out of my armor and set it up facing towards the main entrance. “You know the drill Aurora. Goodnight.”

“Goodnight.” Aurora turned off the last bit of light my armor was emitting

Silver’s POV

“Hey honey?” Rose was spinning in her chair.

“Yes dear?”I reached out with my magic and stopped her.

Rose pouted. “Midnight and Harmony have been gone for a while. Do you think we should send somepony to go find them?” Rose stepped out of the chair and towards me.

I scooched over on the desk. “You shouldn’t worry so much. Midnight and Harmony are stronger than you know. Together they’re damn near unstoppable.”

Rose hopped up onto the desk. “You’re probably right.” A devilish smile crossed Rose’s face.

I gave her a concerned look. “Rose what are you planning?”

Rose pushed me onto my back. “Something I’ve wanted to do for a while.” Rose kissed me.

Midnight’s POV

I woke up to Harmony licking my nether regions. “Harmony I don’t think now is the time.”

I flipped over to see Harmony was still asleep. I shook my head. I put a hoof on Harmony’s head and shook her.

“Wha. Huh. Oh. Morning Midnight. Why does my mouth taste of you?” Harmony rubbed her eyes.

“You were enjoying me while I slept.” I got to my hooves.

“Oh. That would explain a few things.” I pulled Harmony to her hooves.

“Namely why you’re tongue tastes weird. Or maybe the puddle on the floor.” I pointed a hoof to a puddle of what I hoped was drool.

Harmony licked her lips. “Well I don’t mind the taste. In fact.” Harmony leaned in close and nibbled on my ear. “It’s one of my favorite tastes.”

“We still have work to do you two. Save the sex for later.” Aurora appeared between us. “Now get your armor on.”

Harmony and I pouted. “You're no fun.”

Aurora had force behind her voice. “I wasn’t fun before the war and I damn sure ain’t fun now. Now get your armor on.”

I sighed and tore my armor down so I could put it on. “Fine. We’ll wait for another few days. Oh and Harmony if you want to grab some scrap metal that door over there leads to a lot of it.” I pointed a hoof in the direction of the only door.

“We don’t need more scrap. It looks like you got more than enough.” Harmony examined my overstuffed saddlebags.

I looked back to see they were about to burst at the seams. “Oh yeah. I guess I did grab a lot.”

Harmony shook her head. “Yes but we have no time to worry about that know. We still need to clear a few more buildings. Let’s go and get this done. Shall we?” Harmony offered me her hoof.

I grabbed her hoof. “We shall.” I let go and trotted out the door.

I was a bit blinded as I stepped outside. It was already about noon and the sun was straight overhead.

I blinked until my eyes adjusted. “Wow. Aurora remind me to set alarms. I really don’t like waking up this late.”

Aurora pulled up a clock on my HUD. “Yeah will do.”

Harmony was trotting off down one of the streets to my right. She was about to the behemoth before she stopped and turned around.

A group of diamond dogs stepped out from behind the dead behemoth. I watched them as Harmony trotted back to me.

I stood there and thought about all of the ponies I had met in the wasteland thus far. Everyone of them was usually a pleasant sight when I needed somepony.

And then there was these motherbuckers. They are the most stupid pieces of shit I have ever had the displeasure of meeting and I had to deal with them until they allowed us to leave.

“You stupid pony! You aren’t allowed to leave unless we say so.” One of the diamond dogs slapped Harmony.

“That’s it.” I called forth some of my magic.

“What was that you stupid pony?” The other diamond dog was crouched down looking at me.

“You heard me.” I pulled the hammer back on the gun behind the diamond dog’s head. “It’s time you bastards met your doom.”

Harmony had the other diamond dog surrounded by her aura. “Are you sure about this Midnight? You know fully well what they can do.” Harmony put a gun right between the diamond dog’s eyes.

A wicked smile crossed my face and even though Harmony couldn’t see it I knew she knew. “Yes.” I pulled the trigger splattering the diamond dog’s brains and blood on my armor.

I dropped the dead diamond dog and fired twice more into his corpse. I felt the ground below my hooves shake.

“MOVE!” Harmony pulled me forward as she went.

Half a second after I got moving the diamond dogs sprung out of the ground where I had been standing. I reached for my shotgun but didn’t find it in my saddlebags.

“Here you go.” Harmony tossed the shotgun over.

I reached out with my magic and grabbed it. “Thanks. Now let’s kill these buckers.”

I dug my front right hoof into the ground and pivoted around it until I was facing my enemies. The diamond dogs were much faster than I had anticipated and the first of the five chasing us was almost on top of me when I pulled the trigger.

“Urg.” The diamond dog clutched at his chest and fell forward.

I grabbed his corpse and threw it out of my way. I took aim at the next one and fired three shots before he dropped.

I pulled the trigger again and the gun clicked. “Dammit. Cover me.” I pulled out the one box of shells I had and started loading them.

Harmony had the gauss rifle out and was planning her shots carefully. The diamond dogs had stopped and were starting to circle us.

I finished loading the shotgun as Harmony fired at the diamond dog closest to her. The shot missed by just a few inches as the diamond dog rolled out of the way.

I was barely able to fire off my shotgun before it got to Harmony. Fortunately it hadn’t swiped at Harmony yet.

“That’s got some kick to it.” I spun around and ducked under the claw hurtling towards my head.

I spun back around and bucked the diamond dog in his stomach. I put the shotgun underneath of his muzzle and pulled the trigger. A satisfying amount of blood and brains exploded out the other side.

The last diamond dog watched us intently. He continued to circle us as if he was studying us and finding the best way to kill us.

I saw a small light flash from behind him. I cocked my head sideways and watched as a small slow moving ball of plasma hurtled towards us.

I rolled out of the way as the plasma shot through the diamond dog’s chest. The plasma ball hit a building behind me and detonated.

The diamond dog held a paw up to where the plasma had gone through him. He pulled a claw covered in blood up to his face. “Would you look at that.” He dropped face first onto the concrete and died.

Derpy was standing behind the corpse. “This is the last time I save your dumb plot. Now take this and go home.” Derpy tossed me the satellite dish.

Harmony picked up the dish and slid it into her saddlebags. “Thank you.”

Derpy scoffed. “Just don’t do anything stupid. I’ve missed enough cool stuff because of the dumbass stuff you two do.” Derpy took off and disappeared into the clouds.

I looked around in the sky but couldn’t find Derpy anywhere. “I’m not sure how to feel about her. Sometimes she is really cool but other times I want to do nothing more than buck her in the face repeatedly.” I shrugged and trotted towards the open exit.

Aurora stayed hidden. “Maybe you should buck Harmony more then.”

I sighed. “Not what I meant Aurora.”

Aurora giggled. “Yeah I know. Just messing with you.”

“Let’s go home.” I grabbed one of Harmony’s hooves.

“Agreed.” Harmony nodded.

And thusly we were off.