I woke up trying to remember where I was. This was harder said than done because I couldn’t remember to save my life. Then it occured to me to open my eyes to find out. I immediatly opened them in order to see, only to be blinded by light.

“Dammit Sigma, what did they say about going full derp on yourself,” I swore silently.

I then opened them much slower this time so the light wouldn’t try to kill me. While my vision slowly returned to me, blurry at first. I determined that I was on grass, I was hungry, a bird pooped on my mane, and my flank hurt. With my vision returned, I realized that I was in a small meadow off to the side of the road.

Now that I had established my souroundings, it was time to see what I had to eat. Looking through my saddlebags made me remember that I needed a new one. With luck, I found an apple. It was starting to rot and it looked like it tasted like the shit in my mane.

“Bon appetite,” I said sarcastically.

I was wrong. It didn’t taste like shit. It was far from it actually. It tasted like the most unholy spawn of shit that no living being would dare get near. It was so vile that if the apple fell towards the ground, the ground would part ways just so it wouldn’t have to touch that sorry excuse for an apple. I ate the apple, only to chuke it back up. I guess I would go hungry today.

Oh well, there goes the last of my food to the worms. Again. I grudgingly put my empty saddlebags on and hit the road.

With nothing happening, I could think about the dream I had. For some reason, it bothered me. It wasn’t that I had a dream about what I used to do, on the contrary, I had those dreams all the time. It was how vivid it was. I could remember everything down to the smallest detail on all the ponies cutie marks. Dreams of past events have never been like that, especially about my hits and the things I did to remove the targets of interest. Something wasn’t right. Everything about the dream seemed wrong. Maybe it was because I was leaving all I ever knew behind. Was that dream a wakeup call for me to stay in the country? I contemplated if I really should leave. No, I was almost at the border and I would make it to Equestria by the end of the day if nothing eventful happened.

“Hello Sigma,” said a voice behind me.

Snapping out of my thought, I turned to face the stranger; only to face six of them. I sighed, remembering one of the reasons I was leaving the country. This was going to be a very long day.

“Why don’t you just come with us and nopony needs to get hurt,” said one of the ponies in the group.

While they were busy trying to convince me to come with them, I summed up my odds. Three earth ponies, two unicorns and a pegasus. All armed with an array of knives and daggers. These ponies meant business and they were not afraid to get dirty. Or at least thats what they wanted me to think.

“Are you paying attention?” It was an earth pony who spoke up this time.

“No, but out of curiosity, what did my former employer put the bounty on my head at?” I said lazily.

The pegasus, and the apparent leader of the group spoke up “fifty thousand bits for the ponies who bring in the unicorn known as Sigma to the world alive. twenty-five thousand bits for the ponies who bring him in dead.”

I gave a low whistle. No wonder these bounty hunters were trying to bring me in alive.

He went on by saying “now that the formalities are over, why don’t you give up and make life easy for everyone. And tell me why did you want to know what the bounty on your head was?”

I answered his questions with “well the answer for the first question is over my dead body. And as for the second, I wanted to see how much it had gone up.”

“And you have given us our decision as well,” said the pegasus who dashed at me while saying it.

I ducked under him and brought my horn up in an attempt to skewer him, but he pulled up. Two of the earth ponies and one of the unicorns rushed me, only to meet the power of a magical field that I put up. In laymans terms, it gave both of the earth ponies a high voltage shock that left them unconscious, but the unicorn detected the field right before he ran into it, avoiding the shield entirely.

Unfortuantely, only living beings would be stopped by the field and the second unicorn knew this. He used his magic to throw a knife at me. I didn’t see this until it was almost to late and was rewarded with a small gash on the side of my face. This temporary distraction made me collapse my shield and in that moment, the first unicorn rushed me and tried to shank me with his dagger. I dodged, dived, dipped, ducked, and dodged his slashes. This didn’t last long as the only consious earth pony rushed me. The other unicorn also joined the fray and was blasting at me with magic.

I was too hungry to put up the field again and I was on the seat of my flank avoiding their attacks. I continued my backpedaling until I stepped on something. It was the knife one of the unicorns had thrown at me. Picking it up with my magic, I thrust it into the skull of the earth pony, permanently removing his flank from the fight.

I then sidestepped a blast from the unicorn. Charging my own up, I continued to dodge all of the attacks that came my way. I dodged all of them except for the pegasus who joined in and cut open my side. I lost my concentration again, leaving me without magic to fight directly with. Needing a new plan, I remembered the dagger the earth pony had rushed me with.

“Stop making me derp brain or I will find a way to expell you from my body,” I shouted to no one in paticular.

This accomplished something else though. Both of the unicorns derped long enough for me to pick the dagger from the dead pony with my telekinetics and slash the throat of the first unicorn and then throw it into the second’s chest, hitting a lung.

This royally pissed off the pegasus and he rushed me. I did the most logical thing that came to my mind. I attempted to skewer him with my horn, this time with success. He didn’t expect this and now he had my horn in his chest. I charged up my magic to do my signiture move.

“I’m about to lay down the law all over the place,” was the last thing he herd.

I discharged all of the magic I had stored, making it rain pegasus for a good thirty seconds.

I was in the groove so I did the most logical thing I could think of, I yelled “FATALITY!”

I trotted over to the last unicorn and bucked him in the side of the head, removing the only threat to me at the time.

Then came the fun part, looting. I searched all of their stuff and I got a good surprise. Food, in the form of non-rotten apples! I devoured half a dozen of them before moving on to the rest of the search. All I got from it was another dozen apples, a set of slightly better saddle bags and a travelling cloak.

I doned the cloak and saddle bags and continued on my merry way. Next Chapter: The Night Estimated time remaining: 2 Hours, 24 Minutes