"Hawkens, where did you find that?" Twilight asks after they have calmed me down to the point where my mane and tail are out.

"In the scrap yard. It looked like the place had been hit by raiders a few days ago so I scavenged what I could and found this as well as some scraps and this wicked shotgun."

He holds up a double barrel shotgun that looks like it should be a pistol. I notice that it only has one trigger.

"Hawkens, what gauge is that?" I ask him.

"It's a twelve, but with the right parts, I can easily make it a six. It will also be a nice alternative to a concussion in CQC every time I fire off a round. By the way Flare, wicked move earlier, minus the wipeout of course but still wicked. The last minute pull up. I could see the end of your fire tail from the ground and you were at least 10000 feet up at that point. Almost at cloud level before you went down. If Twilight here hadn't caught you in her levitation field, you would have been splat."

"What's up with that indent in your Pip-Buck? It wasn't there before, was it?" Twilight Asks.

I look to my Pip-Buck and I see that in the top left corner above the screen is a circular indent.

"That wasn't there before, and it's to perfect to be from the crash. Curiosity."

"Hawkens, you're going to want to hear this. It involves giving slavers a kiss…of death."

Shiara and Stardust are in the doorway but move to the side to reveal a pegasi stallion with a midnight blue coat, long black mane and tail, and blue eyes. His cutie mark is a maticore's skull with two crossed scoped rifles behind it and there is a 50 caliber round in the skull.

"Hey. Name's Silver Scope. I hear you're the pony to ask if some help is required." He asks me.

"Yeah, what do you want?" I ask.

"My wife was taken by the slavers a couple of weeks ago. They knew exactly how to get to her without tripping the security system, me. Case in point, I want you to find who did this, and bring them in front of Dinky here. I will take care of the rest. "

"Well don't you want us to go after her?" Hawkens asks almost too eagerly.

"No point. I already know she's dead. I just want closure."

"Fair enough. One problem, we don't know where to start, so we can't really help you. Do you have any leads of your own?" I say.

"I haven't had the time. Try No-bark. He may be a few apples short of a bushel but he still notices things that most ignore."

Silver then leaves and Shiara and Stardust come in.

"Are you sure you want to do this Flare? You would be taking the role of Judge, Jury, and Executioner to a whole new level." Twilight says.

"I know. Hawkens, I know you have a thing against raiders and slavers alike, but what do you think about this?"

"If this were taking out raiders or slavers, I would be all over this, but what he wants us to do is to get whoever sold out his wife. Now that is one of the more scumbagish moves to pull but it's probably somepony important to this town, to be able to make deals with the slavers and to have enough trust from the town. Getting rid of whoever did that would probably cripple the town."

"Whatever you choose to do, I will follow you." Shiara states.

"I'm along for the ride as well." Stardust says.

"Well then I say no to this one. It just doesn't seem right. Besides, I can't let the trail run cold on my killer, and we are already two weeks behind him. Let's just go launch those rockets, get the info from Manny, and get going."

With that we leave the room and head back to the launch site. We go back down the hatch that I burst through before nearly dying and give the module to Rocket. He installs it and tells Jason and the rest of the Ghouls who are down on the launch pad.

"Thank you Rocket. Now I would like to give a pre-flight speech. We have finally done it. We are going to the Promised Land. All of this could not have happened if it weren't for 6 sent by the creator to amend the relationships between our races. Rocket, you were the first non-Ghoul sent to us, and with you help, advanced the launch date up by many months. You will be the Patron of this launch. And Flare, without the help of you and your compatriots, we would not have been able to finish this journey in the first place. You will never be forgotten. With that, we bid all of you farewell."

Jason and the rest of his Ghouls get into the rockets and they rise through the ceiling and take off. Rocket then turns to me and says. "Damn it, they were right. I guess I'm not a Ghoul. Well there goes the rest of my life."

He turns and walks away through the open door.

"Well, better get back to Manny if I'm going to get going asap."

"Well the Ghouls are gone so a deal is a deal. That Benny fellow and his Iron Will buddies are headed to Boulder City. It's were the Will's are supposed to get paid, but knowing what I know about Benny, he's not going to give them a cap." Manny informs us.

"Thanks for the info. Adios." I say

"By the way, rumor has it that there is a super powered Alicorn that has been roving the world has made camp in the area you're going to be traveling so be careful.

After that, we all head off, wary of whatever the super Alicorn is. Along the road, we almost run into a few Legion members because Hawkens wants to slay them but Twilight holds him back so they don't see us. An hour later we find ourselves crossing what seems to be a dried out lakebed. The sun is starting to go down so we need to find a place to spend the night. Hawkens fly's up and looks around. He comes back down after a few minute saying he has spotted an old rest stop. He leads the way and we make camp in the stop. I decide that this is the perfect time to look over the memory spheres that Hawkens and Shiara found while in Prim. I turn on the projector of my Pip-Buck so that we can all see it. The projection turns to a view of 6 mares around a table. I then realize that they are Twilight Sparkle and her friends, the other Elements. We also see Princess Luna on the other side of the table.

"Look, we need to figure out something. I have gathered intelligence from some zebra spies that we captured that they are building their own stable in the edge of the middle ground." Pinkie says as she bangs on the table with her right hoof, her candy cane mane slightly bouncing.

"My spec-ops ponies are at the ready if you need them. Just give me a location and we will hit it with a Sonic Nukeboom." Rainbow says.

"Wait, a what? Why have I not heard of this? If we have new propaganda techniques, I could use them." Rarity says with her accent.

"It's when 3 or more pegasi perform a Sonic Rainboom at the same time. Massive explosion, top secret technique. Twilight, remember back when you were going to be tardy with a letter to Celestia and I destroyed AJ's old barn, well imagine that explosion times three or more."

"I approve of Rainbow's plan. If we can find this zebra stable and destroy it, when push comes to shove, we will be ready and they won't. Fluttershy, would it be possible to combine your Megaspell magic with a scanning spell." Luna asks.

"I suppose so. It would take some time but it is possible. With Snowflake's help, it could be ready twice as fast."

"I would be happy to help Fluttershy. Just tell me what you need me to do; though Twilight has already asked me to help her with a special project, I will do my best to help you out as well." The host says.

"Than it's settled. Snowflake'll help Twilight with her project, than help Fluttershy with the scanning Megaspell." AJ says.

'Snowflake, can I speak with you after this meeting is over?' Luna thinks to Snowflake.

'Of course cousin.'

Now that the meeting has ended the Elements all teleport off to who knows where, AJ, RD, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie teleport with unicorn ponies that are wearing uniforms of some sort that all have a badge with the respective cutiemarks of their superiors.

When they all are gone, Luna walks over to our host and says. "Snowflake, I know that you have been doing a lot of good, but something bad is going to happen soon. The Zebra's now have their own Megaspell technology. I don't want you to get hurt. That's why at the end of the week, I am sending you to Protostable 4. It's Applejacks so it will be state of the art. If the Megaspells and whatever the Zebra have are going to hit, I want you in that Stable. It's hidden in a under Black Mountain."

"Very well. But will I still be able to help Fluttershy if I haven't finished the Megaspell?"

"Of course, I am sending her to a Protostable as well, along with the rest of the Elements. They must be kept safe at all costs."

"But what if they don't want to go?" Our host asks.

"They will be able to go once the immediate threat is over."

"What threat?"

The memory times out and the projection dies.

"Where did you get that?" A deep voice asks.

Hawkens pops up, spins around and has his three shotguns pointed in the direction of the voice.

"Come out, we have a ninja, pyro, sniper, thunderhead, and of course me. We can take you."

"You can try, but you can't take me. I have been around since long before the war. I have seen horrors that you will never know. Now answer me, where did you get that memory?"

"Well if you're so high and mighty, then why don't you show yourself, instead of hiding in the shadows?" I ask.

I am starting to get frustrated with this mysterious voice so my mane and tail start to spark up. Pretty soon I'm soon generating enough fire to light up the room. A few second later, a snow white Alicorn, no bigger than me with gold bands on its front legs and two silver bands on its back legs appears out of nowhere. This causes Hawkens to flinch, flare his wings, and fire of his two two gauges. Twilight catches Hawkens and the Alicorn's horn glows a brilliantly bright blue as it catches every single one of the balls of the shells Hawkens shot. My fire goes out because I am in shock at this. The Alicorn then sends the balls through the ceiling so fast the holes in the ceiling caught fire, somehow.

"Who are you?" Twilight asks.

"I will tell you once you ANSWER MY ORIGINAL QUESTION!"

"Fine, we found them in the Buffalo Bill Hotel a few days ago." I tell him.

"How the hell did they get there? I thought I hid those memories in Stable 19. Well, now that you answered my question finally, my name is Snowflake."

"Wait, as in the Snowflake from the memory? The memory from before the end of the world as it was known. The memory from more than 350 years ago." Hawkens asks.

"Yes, the one and only. What can I do you for?" He responds in a less deep voice.

"Nothing right now, what are you doing?" Stardust asks, probably for some news to report to Pon-3.

"Well, I am on my way to Black Mountain to gather intelligence for Jacobstown. Since I run the place after all, it's the least I can do."

"Wait, I thought that the Leader of Jacobstown was an Alicorn named Jacob Newmoon."

"He's just the figurehead, my second in command. He is still very powerful, since he is after all an elemental like you Flare."

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"You mean you have yet to hear of Jacob Newmoon, the famous water elemental. You didn't think you were the only elemental, did you?"

"Twilight called me the same thing. What is an elemental?" I ask.

"It's the pegasus version of the Alicorn or the Supermutant. There are just so few of you that it's not widely known. I have only ever seen 5 different kinds so far, water, air, fire, earth, and blood. The blood one was corrupted so he went to Black Mountain but the water, air, and earth ones are my lieutenants at Jacobstown. Newmoon is the water one. On a different point, I have never seen a mutant like you Twilight. What are you?"

"I am a Unicorn in stage 5 taint, and you must be pretty far along in your taint to be in control. I'm willing to bet your in the final stages of taint yourself."

"Actually I am a pureblooded Alicorn. One of the original 20. Did you know that we were created by some higher force that we have only heard from once to defeat Discord? I recently heard from it and that is why I'm back. Discord has finally risen and is behind the whole Black Mountain troubles. Being the last living true Alicorn, I needed to take action into my own hooves and defeat him. I just don't have the Elements to do it, though I heard from Littlepip that there are new elements arising. You know anything about that?"

"You heard from Littlepip? How, I mean, I know that Pon-3 has a feed to her but that is top of the line security." Stardust comments.

"I have my methods. But that is not important, what is important are the elements. Do you know anything about them?"

"Well, I know that Littlepip has them. That's about it really." I tell him.

"Well thanks for the info. I'll be off then. See you around." He says and then teleports out to who knows where.

"Well add him to the list of those not to buck around with." I say.

"And who exactly is on this list?" Hawkens asks.

"You, Shiara, Twilight, Stardust, Littlepip, DJ Pon-3, and now, Snowflake."

"Good to know I am on that list. Otherwise something would have to be done about it."

"You keep telling yourself that Hawkens."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Will you boys stop your little testosterone fight and let us ladies get our beauty sleep?" Stardust asks.

"It's gonna take a lot more that beauty sleep to make her something." Hawkens whispers to me and we both snicker

"You wanna tell that to Sparky?" Stardust asks from her makeshift bed.

We both shut up and get to sleeping and with Twilight on guard, we feel good about our odds, unless Stardust wakes up in the middle of the night in a raging fit, but what are the odds. The next morning I wake up to Twilight lightly jabbing my chest.

"Wake up. Wake up. Damn it WAKE UP!" Twilight yells.

"Sheesh, I'm up I'm up already. Give it a rest Twilight." I say

"Well I would, but everyone is already up and eaten. We let you sleep in since the whole crash landing thing. We have a serving or two left over from breakfast for you." She says in a caring manner. "Take note, this is the last time this is happening so you better wake up with the rest of us or your eating something out of a can next time." She says in a now much darker manner.

"Ok." I say softly

"Good, now eat up so we can go find you killer."

After I eat, we set out in the direction of Boulder City. It's only a day trot to get there but if everypony could fly, than we could have gotten there in a few hours. By the time we reach the dang place, we had already taken on a pack of radscorpions, a few ghouls, and taintsprites. The worst part was that the outskirts of the town were surrounded by even more radscorpions so that was no fun to deal with. The town itself was just a big pile of rubble with maybe a few building left standing. We enter the town and go into what looks to be the bar of the town, somehow still standing. We walk up to the bartender, a pale brown stallion with a blond and white mane and a bottle of hard cider for a cutie mark, and I ask.

"Hey, have you seen a white stallion in a checkered jacket traveling through here with some Iron Wills?"

"As a matter o-fact, they passed through here two weeks ago. The Will's and the NCR have been in a standoff over some hostages for the past week and a half. My guess is that your fancy pants friend abandoned them here. If you want to go and talk to them, they are over in the ruins of the city."

"OK thanks. Any rumors going around?"

"Yeah. Apparently, the New Equestrian Society thinks that they have found the final resting place of Rainbow Dash. It's allegedly near the highest peak of the Flutterpeak Mountains. It's just rumors and speculation so Pon-3 won't air it."

"Thanks for the info."

We walk out of the bar and search around for the entrance to the ruins. A few minutes later we turn a corner and we are halted by a NCR Zebra.

"Stop. There is a situation going on in the premises involving two hostages and a squad of Iron Wills."

"Well, they may have something of mine that I need to get." I tell him.

"In that case, once the situation is resolved, you may get any belongings of yours from the suspects."

"You know, I could probably take care the problem for you. I know my Griffon friend would like to help, wouldn't you Hawkens?"

"Hell, if you're planning on doing what I think you're doing, then I am in."

"Well, we're not making any leeway here so go ahead and have at it, but the minute we hear gunfire, we are rushing in there."

"Trust me, we can handle ourselves."

We go in through a makeshift gate and to our right is a big pile of rubble. To our left are nine or ten NCR that look like they are itching for a fight. I look in the direction that they are looking and see the only standing buildings in the entire ruins. Outside of one of the doors into the building are 5 Wills.

"Dang, if they have 5 spare for guards, than either that is where their leader is or they have a lot of Wills in there." Hawkens points out.

"Hey, Shiara, go see if you can find the hostages and get them free with your freaky ninja skills."

"Will do Flare. I will be quick in and out of there."

She disappears into thin air and the rest of us set forth.

"Twilight, I want you to take out as many of the guards as you can, but after the hostages are free."

"Got it."

I look over to Hawkens and see that he is practically itching for a fight.

"Soon bud. Just make sure that you don't use your 2's unless you can recover before hitting something. Don't want a Hawkens Shiskebab. That would be bad." I tell him.

"Ya don't say captain obvious."

Twilight gives a mock salute at Hawkens comment.

"What did I say? I would be back and for these soldiers, I have saved the day." Shiara says as she appears out of thin air with two freaked out NCR soldiers at her sides.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU LOST THE HOSTAGES? THEY WERE THE ONLY THING KEEPING THE NCR FROM ATTACKING US YOU F*CK*NG MORON!" Somepony yells from inside the buildings.

"Well, I would say that they know what we did. Twilight, if you would."

BANG! BANG! BANG! Three shots was all it took for her to kill the five guards. Unfortunately, when their bodies hit the floor, ten more storm out of one of the buildings and unload machineguns at us. We hide behind some walls in the rubble. Twilight manages to shoot one of the ponies hoof off. Said ponies hoof conveniently flies into the owners face, and makes him shoot some of his compatriots instead of us. I try to get some shots out but another twenty have swarmed out of the building.

"Where the hell did all of these Will's come from? Their like radroaches." Hawkens says

"And just as easy to kill." Stardust says before leaping out of cover with her lightning cannon ready to fire.

The only problem is that one of the Will's shoots the gun so it can't fire.

"Well Fuu. Now what are we going to do? Twilight can't do anything. I am too far away to do anything. You can't even poke your head out. My guns ruined for now. And Shiara can't do much more than we can.

"HERE I COME! HAHAHA! NOW IT'S COWARD KILLING TIME!" A very deep voice says from behind us.

I hear a whirling sound and look behind me. I see a light brown stallion with a dark brown mane. He is wearing a modified version of the Couriers vest that I'm wearing. He has a desert camo facemask to match the vest. The most impressive part of him is the fact that he is standing bipedal while carrying a minigun. He starts walking forward with the gun and he lets the bullets fly.

Yatatatatatat Tatatatatatatatatatatata. YATATATADATATADATATAT!

This continues on for another minute or five as this mysterious pony obliterates the Wills.

BOOOOOOOOOM!

The mysterious ponies minigun explodes in a ball of rainbow fire.

"Daf*q just happened." I say out loud.

"WHAT THE F*CK JUST HAPPENED?" One of the Wills cried out.

"HEY, IF YOU AND YOUR BUDDIES THAT ARE HIDING INSIDE THAT BUILDING COME OUT AND TALK TO A PEGASI OUT HERE, I WONT KILL YOU, PINKIE PIE PROMISE."

"OK, BUT ONLY BECAUSE YOU PINKIE PIE PROMISED!"

Out of the building walks one of the Will's that I saw at the graveyard where I was killed almost a month ago. He is a grey pony with a bright red mane. His cutie mark is a skull and broken crossbones. He has on a grey vest that matches his coat.

"So who am I talking to slayerpony?"

"Flare, I presume you have some questions for this pony?"

"You presume correct." I say as I get up from my hiding place with my mane and tail on since I am more than a little pissed at this Will.

The look on his face is priceless.

"Wha. How, the hell. Benny killed you. We all saw it. You had a bullet through your head."

"Well in that case, Johnny, I'm Hoooome! Where the hell is Benny?"

"He ditched us in the middle of the night. His tracks led off to New Pegasus so that is where I would start. He is one of the managers of the Tops Casino."

"Thanks. By the way, make sure to prepare a welcoming party for Benny in hell."

"Huh. What's that suppose….." He says but I cut him off with a grapple through his neck. I then yank the grapple out one side then send it back in cutting his head clean off. "Have a nice day."

I gather the rest of the group and get out of Boulder City. I turn my Pip-Buck to Drop's channel.

"What'd I tell yall 'bout comin IN MAH SHED?"

Bowowowowowowoooowowowowoowow.

"Hey hey hey."

"Such good wubs." I say

Level Up- LV.13

Perk Added- Bloody Mess

All kills have a 10% higher chance of increased gore. All attacks deal 5% more damage.

Perk Added-Dat Bass

You are now addicted to bass. You have increased speed, damage, perception, and strength when listening to dubstep. You have decreased speed, damage, and awareness when not listening to dubstep.