"Ok, first things first, if your gonna travel with me, you need to know what I'm doing." I told Hawkens.

'Now that I think about it, this is the first time I get to take a good look at the fellow.'

His feathers are a faded gray/brown color, his most striking feature is the eye-patch that is covering his left eye, that I presume would be dark blue just like the other. He's wearing a wide brimmed desperado style hat that has barbed wiring around the brim, I guessing so he can throw it at ponies and deal some damage. He also had a bandoleer that had 10 grenades on it.

'Talk about explosive personality.'

"I'm on a journey to get revenge on a pony who killed me, stole my delivery to Mr. Stable, and, among other things, is just a stuck up douche who needs to be taught a lesson."

"Well, I am on a very simple quest of my own. Get revenge on any and all raiders. Be it the measly Powder Gangers or the Iron Will's, I will have my revenge." Hawkens said.

"Do you mind saying why?" I ask.

"It's personal. Just leave it at that."

"Will do. So, other than that impressive shotgun rigging you have, what else do you fight with?"

"These." he says as he holds up his talons. I can see that they have some sort of a shiny coating to them.

"What is the coating?" I ask him.

"Observant I see, not many ponies who I show these to notice that. It's actually a covering." He says as he takes one of the coverings off. Made from a crystal that I found in Mark Vault 1. Hard enough to withstand a blast from a frag grenade but weak enough to be ground down into the claw coverings you see here. It even has some sort of absorbing quality so no matter how hard I hit anything, my claws wont be harmed."

"So what's your fighting style?"

"Its the Almaznyi Claw. I would teach you a bit but it's a griffin exclusive style. Speaking of hand to hand, how do you fight?"

"With these." I say as I extend my grapple chains. "These babies are normally supposed to be used for heavy lifting, but I learned early on that you need at least a little hand to hand training, so I taught myself the basics of suplex. If my wings hadn't have been damaged like they were, you would have been on your back with a pistol between your eyes."

"Good to know." He says with a nervous chuckle

"What's the problem?" I ask

"Them." He says pointing over my shoulder.

I turn around and see that we are surrounded by Powder Gangers.

'Celestia's flaming horn in my face I have bad luck. 11 of them.'

I can see that Hawkens is already preparing to fight with his wings halfway unfurled but the ends of his wings still over his guns. I turn my radio on to Rex Drops' channel and then slip into S.A.T.S. three of the Gangers have at least one broken arm, two of them half concussions, but the rest, unfortunately are more than OK. All of them appear as red dots on my E.F.S. I target the two with concussions to use by grapple chains on, then I target the three with the broken arms with my magic pistol and then I pick another two with Spike's Rage. Targets accepted, executing.

"Hey flaming warrior, if your in a fight and listening to my station, this song is for you. It's called CRUSH! KILL! DESTROY! SWAG!"(Actual song owned by General Mumble)

The sound of bomb sirens goes off, originating from my Pip-Buck.

Two of my grapple chains whip out bull-whip style and at the crack, the heads two with concussions have their heads fly off.

"CRUSH! KILL! DESTROY! SWAG!

Three shots come out of my Magic Pistol in quick-ish succession melting one of the Gangers into a pile of green goo and leaving the another one char grilled. One of the ones that is in better shape starts to shoot at me. I jump up in the air using my wings to get that extra hight, pop the head off of a third Ganger, land on a 5th, buck the 6th.

All the while, Hawkins had been jumping left, right, and side to side, all the while taking care of the other 5 Gangers. When he jumps off of the last one, they all explode into a bloody mess.

"What the hell did you just do to them?" I ask wondering how he managed to get all of them to blow up.

He reaches back to the pouch on his right back leg and pulls out a grenade while smiling like a maniac the whole time.

I facehoof when I notice that half of his grenade belt is empty

"Do I want to know how you got that inside them?"

"That, my friend is the Almaznyi Claw style of fighting." He says while putting the grenade back "You use the claws to cut a up your opponent, then, when the would is large enough, you stick something explosive in it. Now, when it comes to robots, this is hard because of their whole metal shell, but that's what I use my claw coverings for."

"Oi vey, why not just use your claws to cut their head off?"

"Yeah, I haven't learned that one yet. I can do it, my claw coverings just get stuck in the flesh."

"Never mind, let's just see what we can get off of these bastards."

'Let's see what we have here.' I think to myself 'Ooh, a 10mm. I can use that to repair Spike's Rage.'

"Hey Hawkens, I found some Dynamite, you want?"

"Yes please. Oh by the way, if you find any shotgun ammo or ammo parts, I would like them. I make my own ammo for my shotguns. They're custom built 2 gauge shells."

"Glad you didn't shoot me then." I say nervously.

"Hey, I found a key over here, wonder where its to." Hawkens informs me.

"Give it to me. My Pip-Buck's item sorting feature also somehow knows the names for everything in my inventory."

"Nifty."

"Let's see here, it's to the NCRCF. That's the prison that the Powder Gangers took over. Heh, well will you look at that, it's on our way to Prim. I'm guessing that you want to stop by there to take on the Gangers, Hawkins."

"You got that right."

"Well it is on our way so we may as well, heck, maybe the security cameras at the place caught checkers and his amigos on tape. You can also go kill some Powder Gangers if you want."

"Will do."

"Hey, if you ever want to talk about whatever happened, I'm here to talk to. Whatever it is, can't be much worse that being killed."

"I'll take that into consideration."

Level Up - LV.4

Perk Added – Cyberwings Mark3 LV.2

Your are now able to generate low level gusts with your wings, capable of harming most insects and stunning weak ponies. Your grapples have been restored to full power, you can now preform basic suplex maneuvers and operate all non-heavy weapons.(Two hooved weapons reload 2X slower than normal weapons)

Perk Added- Neural Interface – LV.1

Your Pip-Buck's neural interface allows you to control your cyber implants with a new precision that you didn't have before(Skill level: You are learning how to use a new limb).

Companion Perk Added – Gear Head

All cyber implants take 50% of the damage they normally would and have now gained a repairing function, restoring damage when not in use.(Takes 1 hour to self repair fully destroyed cyber implants)