Jolis, after her interactions with the Frontier girls, decided to take the train to the Crystal Empire. She pays for the ticket, climbs aboard, and finds herself alone. "This is odd. Is something happening I don't know of?"

After a brief wait for other passengers the train begins to move. She is still the only one on board. As a matter of fact she hasn't seen the staff come by this car. While lost in thought Jolis missed the car's door opening. A red stallion clad in a trench coat, combat boot, armored gloves, and a steriotypical trilby enters the train car. This stallion carefully draws a futuristic revolver from his coat's inner pocket. The gold plating glinting in tge pale moonlight as he twirls the six shot hand cannon. Grabbing the mahogany grip he takes aim at the oblivious Changeling. A shot rings out causeing Jolis to turn her head towards her attacker.

As the bullet travels through the air things seam to slow as if in bullet time. No ones refexes were sped up however. Instead she watches in fear of her shooter. Unable to see the projectile, but able to feel the impact on her right cheek, left breast, twice on her stomach, and once on her right shoulder. Sparks flew off of her shoulder as the bullet is warped by the hardened chitin under her jacket, and bounces out the window. She ducks down into her seat from the pain, and starts searching her weapons pocket. Healing items seemed on command as the first item was the Delakahs Bar, which she devoured. Wrapper now discarded as she reached into the pocket again only to pull out the Deadringer. She flipped the pocket watch open, and waited. The stallion' heavy steps and shinking spurs grew louder as he approached her seat. He spun towards her and fired the last shot.

*****

Applejack sat across from her older brother in the living room. He was in his usual get up. A red and white tartain T-shirt, dark blue jeans, his orange bandana, spurred cowpoke boots, and the Exosuit he's been needing in order to walk since he threw out his back helping Applebloom fix the tree house. The two of them had been talking about the now destroyed tank that was in the old barn.

"I keep telling ya sis, Ah ain't got a clue how a section o' The Crystal Heart got there," He was attempting to be angry, but with the emotional drain across Equestria his voice was a neutral deadpan.

"And that's why our new friend was in that barn, and a railgun is implanted in the dirt by the back patio?" Applejack, being a Hollow, always had a voice that sounded harsh.

"Eeyup..." Big Mac crosses his arms adamit about his story.

Applejack quirked an eyebrow, "Big Irons Macintosh! You know damn well Ah c'n tell when you lie. As head of this here farm Ah tell ya to go fix yer mess!"

Big Mac winced at the sound of his full name. Ever since cousin Hot Irons's Atlas company tried to kill off everypony not in his personal military he despised his middle name. It was only made worse when his cousin mailed him a gold .50 revolver with a mahogany grip that had Outlaw etched on it. Mac looked at Applejack and simply stated, "Fine, it ain't like Ah got anythin' better to do right now." with that he walked out of the room and upstairs to fetch his armored gloves, no doubt the metal was still hot, a trench coat for added protection from the metal, and a trilby to avoid sunburning and becoming redder than he already was. He holsters Outlaw in a pocket holster in his coat.

Outside he gets to work moving the metal to a pile, tossing the wood into a barrel to safely burn. As the sun sets he's staring at the socket that held the section of the heart. He tosses it into tge metal pile and stands up. "I'll fix this alright," with those words he set off into Ponyville, and followed Jolis on to the train.

*****

Jolis pulled a Diamond Back and Mad Milk from her weapons pocket. She through the milk into the stallion's back causing something under his trenchcoat to short out. He falls into her seat. She removes his hat.

"Damn bitch! How did you know?" Big Mac snapped as he tried to swing at her.

"I didn't. Mad Milk is a health item. You splash it on someone, and the damage done to them is transferred to the user as health," She moves to the left of him and shoots the now obvious exo suit, "There that should keep you from going anywhere until we can get the guards to collect you." With that she puts her weapons away, and sat nearby to watch him.

Author's Notes:

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