Both know what it's like to be somewhat notorious for something.

-Infamous Prologue: After battling and surviving a near fatal encounter with The Beast, Cole MacGrath had gone back to the wasteland that was once Empire City, in hopes of rebuilding what was once his home.

Poor Derpy, all she wanted to do was help, or make friends, but it seemed like no matter what she did she would just screw something up. During the King Sombra invasion she was suppose to take a colt named Rumble back to Sweet Apple Acres, however she got distracted by a muffin that somehow lead her into Sombra's lair.

Due to her disobeying Twilight's orders and also endangering Rumble, she had gained the ire of Princess Twilight Sparkle, adding her to the list of ponies who didn't care for her, alongside the likes of Rainbow Dash & Rarity, and even other Ponyville Residents, like Lyra & Bon Bon.

Soon Sombra blasted Derpy into a Dimension portal and she went through for a while before landing near the ruins of a city.

"Ow, that hurt...where am I? Why is there so much rubble around? Did something blow up?"

She then caught a glimpse of the humans in the area, they seem to be rebuilding the area.

"Did King Sombra do this?"

She stayed out of sight of the humans, she wasn't too sure if they were friendly, she just simply watched and observed as they cleaned and rebuilt the lost city.

"They seem to be like ponies, except they're on two legs, and they have digits on their hooves"

She seemed really impressed so far with these creatures, she hoped they were friendly so she can go talk with them, however her fascination took a blow when she saw something horrifying, a group of other humans arrived with firearms and started shooting at the people.

"Reapers! They're back! Run!" some people shouted.

Derpy looked horrified at this, who were these creatures, why were they attacking the others?

The civilians ran away, some running past where Derpy was hiding, as the Reapers followed them, one of them noticed Derpy.

"Look" it said in an eerie voice.

The others turned and noticed Derpy as well.

"Pony..."

They started to approach her, freaking her out.

"You're starting to scare me"

They stopped a moment, "Talking...pony", they resumed going after her, which freaked her out.

"G-get away!"

They marched forward, and eventually Derpy freaked out and started flying but she tripped mid-air somehow and fell.

"How come I keep falling!" she then ran on foot with the Reapers chasing her.

As they chased her one got blasted with lightning, the other reapers looked and saw a great enemy of theirs.

It was the Conduit hero, Cole MacGrath.

"I thought you bastards died when the city did"

The Reapers shot Cole but he put up his Polarity Wall to stop the bullets then did a shockwave to knock them off balance, then he ran in and punched a few of them and even used his amp to take a few out.

A group of them got together to start shooting him but he sent out his Megawatt Hammer to blast them, and finished everything by bringing a lightning bolt down from the sky, taking out the reapers, killing most of them.

Cole wiped his head, "Probably went overboard with the lightning, don't wanna drain myself, not too many generators yet"

He approached one Reaper and used his powers to read it's mind, hoping to get some info about what they were up to, then he noticed some peculiar, the image of Derpy.

"Whoa, was that a Pegasus? It talked too, this just keeps getting weirder, from the looks of it she didn't want to be captured by them, so she took off, but where? Only one way to find out"

Cole then used his senses to look for the traces of her echos.

"I can sense the echos of her running away, if I follow them I can find her"

He followed the echos across the area, from the looks of things she didn't go too far, he checked the remains of an alley and looked around.

"Pegasus!? Where are you? Come out!"

He continued to look around, but no luck.

"Damn, where'd she go? The echos stop here", he deiced to check the garbage cans, mostly trash, not a lot though.

He then checked the dumpster and found her.

"There you are"

"Ah! Get away!" she then flew out the dumpster and started getting away.

"Aw dammit! Hey come back! I'm not gonna hurt you!" he continued to chase her as she flew away.

Luckily not a lot of the buildings were rebuilt, most still under construction so it was easier to keep track of her, he then noticed her head low, then he heard a faint sound of a crash.

"Sounds like that hurt" he continued on til he reached the area of her crash.

He saw that she landed on a bunch of garbage cans.

"Uh...you alright there?"

She saw him and attempted to fly off again but she lost her balance and fell, then she started weeping a bit.

"Why do I keep screwing up!"

Cole slowly approached her, she noticed him and tried to crawl away but he got in front of her, "Hey take it easy, I'm not gonna hurt you, I'm not one of them!"

Derpy panted and continued to weep a bit.

Cole started to pity the creature, so he bent down to her, "Hey, don't cry, you're gonna be safe, I promise you"

She looked at him, very nervous, tears still in her eyes.

Cole got a good look at her wall eyes, he figured that's the reason she might be a bit clumsy, but he also noticed she was really scared, he took pity on her.

"Hey, I know you're probably scared, but you gotta trust me, I won't hurt you and I won't let anything happen to you"

Derpy wiped the tears from her eyes, "But what about those things? They tried to capture me"

"Don't worry about them, I took care of them, but they have more friends, if you don't want to run into them, you need to come with me"

Derpy nodded, "Ok Mister"

Cole helped her up, "You need to stay close to me, and if I tell you to hide, you need to be quick about it, these guys are ruthless, if we run into them, you have to let me do the fighting"

Derpy nodded.

"Good, lets go"

Both of them walked off, with Cole keeping an eye out for more Reapers, Derpy doing her best to stay close to him, at one point she though she heard something and immediately ran to his arms as he held his hand out like if he was gonna attack, but saw that it was only a rat.

"Wow, that sucker's big", he noticed Derpy trembling from fear, "Relax, it's only a rat...unless you're scared of rats, that's understandable too"

Derpy just hugged him tightly, so he decided it's best if she stays in his arms as he continued to his pad.

He managed to get there with no issues, no Reapers showed up to bug him and he noticed his friend Zeke roasting hotdogs over an open fire.

"Hey Cole, got some dogs here, I even got some buns, hope you like campfire style wieners".

"Sounds good to me", Cole said.

Zeke noticed Derpy in his arms, "Uh what's that? Some stuffed toy you got from a fan?"

Cole shook his head, "No...she isn't a toy"

Derpy turned around and looked at Zeke, he noticed her eyes.

"What is she? Some experiment gone wrong? I mean look at her eyes"

That comment caused Derpy to start weeping, "I can't help it if my eyes are like this!"

Cole hugged her to calm her down, "Dammit Zeke!"

"Well how was I supposed to know she would understand me? I didn't even know she could talk, that's actually weirder than her eyes"

Derpy cried some more, which annoyed Cole.

"Zeke, you're making things worse! Stop talking about her eyes!"

Zeke decided to zip his lip while Cole comforted Derpy.

"Hey take it easy, your eyes are fine, they're actually really...pretty", Cole saying the last part reluctantly, not that her eyes weren't pretty, he just hated saying that, but he needed to make her feel better.

Derpy looked up at him, "Really? You think my eyes are pretty?"

Cole gave a nervous smile, "Yeah...I did"

Derpy blushed a bit, "You're really nice mister"

"You can just call me Cole, what's your name?"

"My name...is Derpy"

Zeke was gonna say something but Cole's glare shut him up before he said anything.

"That's a...really nice name", Cole said, somewhat meaning it.

Derpy held her stomach.

"What's wrong? Are you hurt?" Cole asked.

"No, just hungry", Derpy replied.

"Oh, well you can stay an I'll go get you something to eat, what would you like?"

"Are there muffins?"

"Uh muffins? Yeah there are, any flavor you'd like?"

"I like lemon flavor"

"Lemon flavor? I think I can find you one, I can't promise it though"

"You can get me any muffin, I would just prefer lemon"

Cole nodded, "I'll see what I can do, in the meantime you stay here with my friend Zeke"

Derpy gave him a dirty glare, "I don't like him, he's mean!"

"Hey!" Zeke protested.

"I know he said that stuff about your eyes but he won't say it anymore, he's sorry for the stuff he said, right Zeke?"

Zeke groaned a bit, "Yeah I am, I'm so sorry"

Cole looked annoyed, "Cool your attitude Zeke"

Zeke crossed his arms and looked away.

Derpy pondered a bit, "Fine, I'll stay, but hurry back please"

"I take it you're really hungry?"

Derpy shook her head, "No...I just feel safer around you"

Cole looked surprised, "Really? You just met me though"

"Yeah, but you were nice to me, and I just felt safe near you, so please hurry"

Cole nodded, "Ok, I'll come back, and if he says anything, let me know, I'll deal with him", Cole said.

Derpy nodded as Cole walked off.

"Man, a Pegasus, just when I think I've seen it all this happens, having her around could be a liability, the Reapers probably want her and she will probably cause more unwanted attention, but I can't just abandon her, she won't survive on her own, not to mention she now seems dependent on me, I just can't abandon someone who needs me, even if it is a Pegasus Pony, besides I hate to say it, but she's kinda cute"

He walked to find a place that sells food, he had a Pegasus to take care of now, question is how to pull that off.

Cole's seen strange things, though Derpy is a whole other level, how will he cope with living with a Pegasus? And what happens when The Reapers come back?