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The smoke cleared out slowly as I opened my eyes to a blurry view of the cracked and partially charred ceiling. My ears were still ringing from McMarland's C4 explosion, but I still managed to get to my feet and start trying to look around. My vision slowly came into view as I saw that all the other officers were nowhere to be seen. They must have been blown up by the explosion. I stumbled over to Connor who was lying against the wall on the left of the throne room, still breathing but unconscious. McMarland raised his head to look around from where he was on the right side of the throne room, and he almost instantly spotted me.

He slowly, carefully and quietly got out his pistol and checked that it was loaded and the safety was off. He apparently wanted my attention when he killed me because he shouted the one thing he shouldn't have… "Hey, Mr. Jack!" My ears started ringing again, but not from the explosion. I knew the bastard was wishing for his own death on this one. He yelled again "hey, Mr. Jack!"

I back onto my feet and turned to face him. My anger was so strong it felt as if it were giving off some kind of heat. I slowly started to walk towards McMarland. He aimed the best he could and shot. The bullet hit me in the shoulder, but I was too enraged to feel pain, I just kept walking. "What? Why aren't you dying?! You're supposed to die when I shoot you!" he yelled, shooting me over and over in the chest. Nothing worked, because I just kept walking casually towards him.

A barely conscious Twilight and Connor started calling me to snap out of it, but I didn't care. I finally reached him, and I proceeded to crush his ribs with a quick stomp. He screamed loudly in the pain as I bent down and picked up his gun, which he had dropped. I checked the magazine. One bullet left… that's all I needed. "I believe you need to die now, McMarland." I took direct aim at his forehead…

"I can't believe I'm gonna be killed by some guy who's friends with a bunch of talking horses!" he coughed.

I laughed, regaining my train of rational thought. I kept my aim at his head and looked at him with a devilish smile.

"What are you, some kind of a cowboy or something?" He asked.

"Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!"

With a gentle pull of the trigger, a bullet was blown straight through his head and into the floor… McMarland was dead. I stepped off of him and turned back to my friends. "A dose of lead can be fatal, especially when it's issued from the barrel of a gun!"

Then the lead that hit me kicked in and I fell to my knees in blinding pain. Connor and Twilight raced over to my side. "Don't you dare fucking die on me brother" Connor ordered frantically.

"Me and my big mouth, huh?" I joked. "Connor, I want to make sure you know that you were my best friend. I trust you to take care of Equestria while I'm gone. Twilight, make sure everypony knows to never fear the unknown like McMarland did."

"Okay" she squeaked, tearing up.

"And Connor" I said, turning back to him. "Tell Luna I said goodbye, okay?"

"I will, brother" he sniffed. A single tear dripped onto my bullet wounds, making them burn.

"I think it's time for me to take my leave" I sighed. As my last breath of life escaped quietly from my lungs and my vision began to fade out, I saw a peculiar sight… two scythes… one was steel with a wooden handle and the other was… Obsidian? With an iron handle… I wondered what they were for… but then my thoughts faded for the final time.

I jerked up gasping for breath… then I looked around. I was… nowhere… Well, I mean, obviously I was somewhere, but everything around me was blank white. I kept looking around until I looked behind me. I saw a grey and black pony with wings as though he had been crossed with a bat. He probably sensed me looking at him because he lifted his head and looked over at me. I spoke first, "who in the Sam hell are you?"

"I might ask you the same question" he answered.

"I'm John Jack" I told him skeptically.

"I'm Reaper."

"So…" I started awkwardly. "where in the Sam hell are we?"

"Welcome to a little piece of heaven" He quoted.

"You listen to Avenged Sevenfold?" I asked.

"Yeah, why?"

"Me too!" I laughed. "Why are we here anyway?"

"Equestria's gonna need us again pretty soon, so both of us and all memories of us are being preserved here for the time being" he explained. "Brightside is you don't have to eat or drink. Downside is that there's not a goddamn thing to do around here except sleep and you can only do so much of that."

"So I guess we wait then" I suggested.

"I guess so"

So we waited

We waited for something to happen.

THE END

Well, now I can turn my full attention to working on the sequel to Reaper! And now you get a slight idea of what happens at the end of it! As of the writing of this chapter, I've only uploaded to chapter 8 for this story. Anyway, the sequel to Reaper should be out… probably before this chapter is up. There will be one more story with John Jack in it and it will also have Reaper, Savior (Read the sequel to Reaper to find out who Savior is), Connor, Afanasai and all the other characters.

I would like to thank all those who supported me throughout this entire story's creation. I would like to give a special thanks to the following people:

CommanderSprinkles: A U.S. Marine brony as well as an awesome FanFiction author. He was a major inspiration for me starting to write my own FanFiction!

ShiningShadow1965: One of the first people to find (and the first person to review) my first story "Reaper." On top of his awesome support throughout all of my stories, he's also a good FanFiction author.

TyroAkira and MoonRiftsWritings: Two people I know in real life. Both have been awesome support.

Hasbro: For making the show so very, very good!

My friend Raven: She has given me a lot of funny things to use as references. The "EAT MY CORNBREAD! ALLAH!" came from her, as will quite a few things in Savior.

All the movies I reference: For this specific Chapter, Die Hard

All the songs I use in the chapter names: yeah… this is getting kind of lengthy isn't it?

This also happens to be the first story where I actually reached my word goal. I actually got pretty far over it, too! I hope everyone enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing this, and FYI, by the chance that CommanderSprinkles and/or any other U.S. armed forces bronies out there are pissed off about anything in this story that is related to the U.S. armed forces, I'd like to apologize about any errors I made regarding the U.S. army and any of its members and/or associating branches of armed forces. Thank you all for reading, and see y'all next time!

Winr OUT!

Chapter name based off of the song "A Little Piece of Heaven" by Avenged Sevenfold