As everyone except Medley cover their ears in pain from the pain inducing screech one of the doors down the hall burst open and swarms of what can only be described as deathclaw-ponies burst out,screeching so loud that it could crack glass.

"SON OF A BITCH!!!!!" James cringes as he takes his hooves off his ears and shakily raises his sawed off off as the horde of strange mutated ponies swarm at them.

"Get...the...fuck...AWAY!!!!" In the split second before James could fire his gun Star dust pulls out Royal glory and has already pulled the trigger...and the screeching stopped as the rest of the horde storms forward. 'Aim.Focus.Shoot.check.switch.' Star repeatedly goes through the training process his dad gave him in his head thats supposed to help him be a better and faster shot.

As Royal glory blasts 11 shots at a time,whenever it runs out of bullets Doug and James use their sawed off and quick shot revolver to keep the closest ones away as all 3 slowly create a barrier of corpses that just get crushed into a bloody mess under the hooves of the rest of the oncoming horde,Star keeps reloading rather rapidly like the adrenalin rush makes him faster in every way...and royal glory aims at the last 12...6 shots were fired from S.A.T.S and the 7th was left with nothing but a "click"...then the strum of a guitar again...and with a flash of a pony as Star comes out of S.A.T.S the last few fall to the ground with 6 very powerful bangs and the blue pony just glances at Star with a quick flash of orange in his eye,only their was something wrong with it...his eye was...cybernetic.

With a flash of light the pony vanishes and Star had realized Starberry has not fired a single round. "Hey Starber-." As he turns around he sees his sister figure cowering behind Doug who didn't notice her at all. "Starberry?"

"N-no...no no no...let me go." Starberry whimpers and mumbles out as she has mental flashbacks to past moments in her childhood.

Star almost says something but decides to do what she would do...he hugged her,didn't say a thing,just held her in his arms as a brother would to a little sister,tightening his grip as she cries. "Its okay Starberry...i wont let anything hurt you." Star whispers to the little red pony as she slowly calms down.

Doug crosses his legs and leans on the wall. "You know,you two are shockingly caring for each other." Doug's comment gets ignored by the two ponies as Star's heart beats faster,faster and faster until he feels like Starberry's heart is beating equally fast.

Theirs a zombie like groan and Star does not hesitate to look down the scope,to the far side of the hall and takes aim at the deathclaw-pony as spores grow on it...he aims for the spores as he reloads Royal glory. "Just die you piece of living shit." with a pull of the trigger one spore pops open,sending a explosive gas spreading around it...another bullet...and the monstrosity screams in pain as it becomes engulfed in fire and pain.

"T-thank ya Star." Starberry rests her head on Star's chest,just glad she has somepony looking after her.

"No problem Starberry." Star dust smiles then looks at Medley who is looking around the halls before sitting down. "I guess she didn't want to get caught in the crossfire...c'mon lets get lightning."

James puts his sawed off into his holster and nods as he looks at the corpses of the ponies...then shivers as he sees the stable outfits under the scales. "Yea,lets just go fast,i don't think these things are going to stay down very long...it looks like they were artificially made."

"YOU DON'T SAY MOTHERBUCKER!!!!!!" The voices of dead scientists from beyond the grave shout at him.

"...What the fuck was that?" Star flinches a bit from the sound of dead scientists talking.

"I...think its best we forget about it and move on." James trots around the corner as Medley fallows closely behind Star like a really protective body guard as Starberry stands right next to him with Doug on her other side and Medley behind them as they trot through the halls and stairs.

As the group goes into the living quarters,they hear a slight cry from one of the nearby medical rooms put their in case of emergencies and they instantly look at each other in question.

"Uhh...ah'll go check to see who it is." Starberry trots to the door...theeeen realizes she has no idea how stable doors work. "Ummm how do ya open stable doors?"

"OH FUR BUCKING-." Star pulls out Royal glory and shoots the console next to the door causing the door to open.

"EEK!!!" Starberry jumps back from the sparks before slowly looking inside...and sees Lightning crying.

"I-im sorry...i...didn't know my own strength...p-pleas." Lightning whimpers out,not noticing Starebrry or anypony else. "Pleas come ba-."

"Lightnin?" Starberry takes a step forward as he jumps up and clings to the roof like a extremely frightened cat.

"GYAH DON'T SNEAK UP ON ME!!!!!!" Lightning drops down a moment later,

"Heheheh well ah gotta say that WAS funny." Starberry and Star dust chuckle,James hitting himself in the face in annoyence and Doug just standing their,wondering how Lightning clingd to the roof.

"Shut up,both of y-." Click. "What was that?" Click.

"Ah hear it too." Click. "Ya'll know where thats comin from?" A loud stable like door seems to screech open nearby,making the whole group cringe and cover their ears in pain.

"GYYYAAAAHHHHH!!!!!" Star falls down clutching his ears as high pitched frequencies surge through his ears from a nearby speaker making him instinctively pull out Royal glory and look around,noticing a radio that seems to be gathering figures behind it,and as Star aims...his mind goes blank,he can't pull the trigger,he can't move...but the gun fires anyway. 'W-what the?' Royal glory seems to fire on his own without Star dust pulling the trigger as it it knows that He can't move...and once the radio is gone,the figures drop one by one until royal glory finally runs out of ammo and star dust regains control of his body.

James groans and rubs his head in pain,hearing the same high pitched noise. "Ugh...n-nice aim Star."

"...I...I didn't shoot that." Star says while slowly putting royal glory back in his holster after making sure to reload it and everypony looks at star wondering what he means by that,he clearly ha the gun in his mouth and it clearly fired.

"What ya say? That makes no sense Star,didn't royal glory fire?" Starberry goes to him and looks at his gun.

"Yes it did fire,but im not the one who pulled the trigger,I couldn't,i was paralyzed and...the gun fired on its own." Star looks at Starberry.

"...I say we just keep moving and not question the mystical power of a gun that probably saved our asses." Lightning trots forward towards where the radio and figures were...and he freezes in place out of fright.

"Something wrong lightning?" Star dust walks next to him then nearly vomits at the sight. "W-what is that?" He stares directly at the face of a pony...only it wasn't a pony...it was scaly,black,the eyes were those of insects,its horn was crooked,curved and filled with holes,its teeth were jagged and sharp as daggers,its black tongue hanging out and its ears resembled two claws and its green blood was pouring down its neck and onto its moth like wings which are twitching and covering most of its side.

"...That...is disgusting." Lightning shivers at the insect like creature and backs away from it.

"What are ya'll talkin bou-." Starberry goes and stands next to Star only to take one look at the creature and shiver intensely. "OK,NOPE,NOPE,NOPE SO MUCH NOPE,WE ARE GETTIN OUTA HERE!!!!" Starberry grabs both Lightning and star and begins dragging them away as Doug and James just fallow,confused. "NOOOOOPE THAT IS ONE TALL GLASS OF NOPE!!!" She leads them all out of the stable and forces the door shut.

"Did she ju-" Before James could finish Starberry somehow picks them all up and carries the whole damn group out of their. "WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!"

As soon as they get to the wasteland Starberry pants and drops them all onto the floor and collapses. "OK...im done..." She says between pants.

"...Should we question this?" Star dust looks at James and Doug.

"I have learned from experience that whenever something strange happens,never question it,just accept it and think nothing of it unless its aiming a gun at you." Douglass says with the worlds greatest poker face.

James looks at Doug."Agreed."

"I am just going to do what Doug here said and accept whatever this is" Lightning just sits down.

"Alright then." Star gulps a bit,not wanting to know what other strange occurrences are going to try to stick their dicks in his life. 'Ugh this is not going to be fun,is it?' Star mentally groans and looks at Royal glory.

Starberry gets up and sighs as everypony stares at each other in a awkward silence."...ARE YA'LL GONNA SAY SOMETHIN OR AM AH GONNA HAVE TO SMACK YA'LL TO TALK?!?!?!" Starberry blurts out,getting tired of the silence.

"OK OK WE'LL GET MOVING!!!! Alright,hmmmm...lets go to...hmm? a town named...Requiem?" Star cocks a eyebrow and looks at his pip buck closer.

"Ah don't think its a good idea to go the-." Starberry gets cut off mid sentence.

"WE ARE GOING THEIR!!!!" Star dust blurts out with a stupid grin.

"OH WHY OF COURSE WE ARE,WHAT A GREAT IDEA!!!!" Starberry facehoofes at why she even bothers telling him where not to go when theirs no changing Star's mind.

As the group continues along a path,Star keeps inspecting royal glory,none stop,for hours,to the point where Starberry wants to smack it out of his hooves. "Hmmm..." Star looks at the trigger,hopping for a clue. 'How the hell did it fire without me pulling the trigger?' He looks closer at the trigger only to find nothing but a clean shine from the whole gun itself and nothing else,making him sigh in exasperation,wanting to crack the mystery.

"Why do ya'll keep starrin at yer gun?" Starberry look back at Star,her pony tail flipping to the other side.

"It fired on its own,i didn't pull the trigger,remember? but somehow it knew i wanted to shoot...and somehow knew i couldn't...so i want to figure out how this works."

"...That IS strange...but ah say get a professional."

"Oh fine." Star dust puts Royal glory back into his holster but keeps a eye on it.

As a town Comes in sight making Starberry shake in fear.

"Whats so bad about that place anyway?" Star dust asks while turning his head to Starebrry.

"...Its...where Ashley lives." The very instant Starberry mentions Ashley's name Lightning stops,turns around and cowers behind a rock.

"NOPE,NOPE,NOPE I AM NOT GETTING ANY CLOSER TO HER,I DO NOT WANT TO BECOME A WOODEN DUCK!!!!"

"...Wooden duck?" Star cocks a eyebrow up in confusion.

"Its what she calls her targets,whoever pisses her off becomes a 'wooden duck' to her we are all just duck hunt targets flying around waiting to be shot and caught by a dog...and she literally feeds her victims to a dog." Starberry shivers thinking about what would happen if she met Ashley personally.

"Aaaand lightning is afraid of her?" Star chuckles a bit thinking of the heavily armored,highly feared lightning fearing a mare.

"Yes,i am,im not a reaper and even if i was i'd still be afraid,to her a reaper is just target practice the only pony who could ever challenge her is a Pegasus named 'Dead shot calamity' And even then he wont be able to kill her...but at least he has less of a chance of getting hit in the head...hell for all we know Ashley could be lining up her sights on us right now...lets just hope shes in a good mood." Lightning gulps hopping its the actual 'Ashley' and not her pissed off form which the wasteland named 'grim reaper's hunter'.

Star dust puts a hoof to his chin. "She wont shoot if shes in a good mood?"

"Correction:she is less likely to shoot on sight,and hopefully shes actually 'Ashley' because thus far we got 2 sides of her,Ashley the sweet,kindish,smart,fast moving mare who helps ponies...and then theirs her pissed off side...we call her 'grim reaper's hunter'...not because shes the bringer of death...but because when shes pissed any and all reapers,slavers,death claws and any pony in general who thinks its a good idea to pick a fight with her will be shittin themselves while bein hunted down,no escape,no killin her and ya can't see her comin,shes too darn fast...and those eyes." Starberry cringes and shivers when she remembers a photo of Ashley when shes pissed...the flaming,glowing red eyes...starring at her through the picture like saying 'Your next little duck.'

"Well...LETS GO TALK TO HER!!!" Star dust grins while going full sprint to the town making both Lightning and Starberry facehoof so hard they leave bruises on their foreheads.

James looks at Doug for a moment. "...Aaaaahhh bollocks to it,ALLONS-Y!!!!!" James proceeds to do the same ridiculase sprint forward,fallowing Star dust.

"...If you can't beat em,join em i guess." Douglass smiles while looking back at Starberry before galloping full speed behind James.

"...OH FUCK IT AH'V LIVED A FULL LIFE!!!!" Starberry fallows,giggling a bit from the slight ridiculousness.

Lightning just sits their and blinks for a moment then looks at you,yes you,the reader. "...What? oh you think im fallowing them? oh buck no,keep scrolling,im not fallowing them." Lightning sits and crosses his arms then looks at the screen."...Oh fine...but only because your cute." He proceeds to get up and gallops after the rest of the group.

The whole group stands at the heavily guarded gates,getting patted down for any suspicious items as the guards find nothing. "OK their clean,let em in." The guard searching them with his horn says as the two heavily armored ponies step aside and let Star dust and James in as Doug and Starberry fallow closely behind.

"Well...were here...CAN WE GO NOW?!?!?!" Starberry instantly panics and looks around.

"No,not until we meet a few ponies." Star dust looks at her with the worlds most annoyingly cocky yet cute smirk.

"...Ah would say ah hate you but that would mean i have to shoot ya...and ah aint gonna shoot ya."

"Awwww look who cares." Star dust chuckles making Starberry snarl like a dog. "C'mon,lets get go-."

"Hellooooo my dear swans." A angelically beautiful yet horrifying voice says to them...and its only horrifying because they all know it must belong to the one mare who the wasteland knows not to piss off.

A tan coated mare flies down with a long,beautiful black mane and tail and the very instant Star,James and Lightning look at her their pupils become pin pricks and their wings all pomf out at the same time as their jaws nearly hit the floor as they look at the incredibly good looking mare in front of them,her eyes sparkling,her smile looks like one you'd only think of in your dream mares,even her dark-tanned hoodie and tight blue jeans help make her look even better...the only thing stopping them from trying to kiss her...was the fact she was aiming both her battle saddles...at them.

"U-u-u-u-uhhhhh." Star dust tries to talk but can't even muster up a word.

Starberry facehoofs. "He says hi." She tries out her best smile and mentally sighs in relief from seeing Ashley giggle and smile back at her then to the others,Doug just starring at her,trying to keep his mouth from dropping.

"Nice to see some new ponies around here,im Ashley." Ashley's voice seems to flow through Star's ears and he almost has a literal ear-gasm if it wasn't for the fact that he heard that Ashley is supposed to be feared,making him wonder if its a bad idea to even think about it near her.

"Y-yea...we know...so...your the mare with the title of 'Grim reaper's hunter.' ?" Starberry flinches back a bit.

"Hmmm...is that what their calling me these days? i don't see what so scary about me,as long as your not evil or incredibly stupid you wont have a bullet in your head,same as every other pony...hang on for a second." Ashley walks past Star,James and Lightning and aims her left rifle,focuses and with a single pull of the trigger a trail of smoke gets sent straight into the head of her target. "Boom,head shot." Theirs a trail of smoke from the bullet and she fires 3 more shots and then gets up. "Hmm,2 slavers down and 3 slaves free using only 4 shots...my skills are getting rusty."

"THAT'S RUSTY?!?!?!?! YER A BETTER SHOT THAN MAH BROTHER,AND YOU DON'T EVEN USE A SCOPE!!!!!" Starberry suddenly shuts her mouth when she realizes that she just yelled at a pony who can easily kill her.

"...Yes,i consider that rusty,especially considering i was trained to use the fewest shots possible." Ashley smirks,making Starberry roll her eyes a bit.

"...Wait...guys..." Star dust goes wide eyed and then everypony looks at him. "...We forgot Medley." James,Doug,Starberry and Lightning all go wide eyed and look at each other.

"Oh shit." They all say at the same time as they realize they never saw their robot friend meet up with them.

Back far back on the road Medley can be heard letting out small robotic whimpers and looking around,hopping to find a familiar face to lead her somewhere. "...In-...Spec-...Tor?" She slowly says,hopping for a response from the pony she thought was the inspector...and eventually...she learned she could cry.