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// Chapter 2: Delta's Prison 
// Story: After the Surge: Las Pegasus 
// by Nanrite 
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Six woke up in a prison cell. She stood up and rubbed her eyes. It was dark but the prison block she was in had working electricity. Six had heard of that but never seen it before. Apparently it was everywhere before the surge. She looked around her cell and saw a broken toilet that had probably not been used for years. There was a sink... and just above that a window. Rain was pouring in from the storm outside. Six trotted to the sink and stood on it, but the window was just out of reach.
"Still got some fight in ya, huh?" Six jumped off the sink and turned to meet her kidnapper. She was a tall but slim mare. She sported a blood-red mohawk and a dirty orange coat. On her right front hoof was a state-of-the-art hoof gauntlet with a shotgun attached to it. Simply aim and turn your wrist... then boom. Six glared at her.
"Where is my family?" Six demanded. The orange mare laughed.
"Tell me your name and I'll tell you where they are," the orange mare said with a devilish grin. Six stepped back for a moment.
"S-Six Shooter."
"Wow... shit name you got there kid. Would explain the ass mark. Good with revolvers huh?"
"Give me one and I'll show you," Six replied making sure to hide all her fear. The orange mare broke out into a fit of laughter.
"Spunky! The boys will like that."
Six's eyes went wide, the fear she was holding back finally started to creep through.
"Young too... I'll tell 'em to go easy on you." The orange mare laughed again and began walking down the hall. Six ran for the cell bars and yelled to her.
"Where is my family?!" she screamed. The orange mare stopped, turned and smiled back to her.
"My name’s Delta by the way... enjoy your stay!"

Minutes were passing like hours. Six tried the window again but there was no way she could reach it. She swore and cursed herself for not learning more about magic. She heard some ponies could teleport before the surge. Some could teleport miles away even. Finally Six gave up and just sat on the cold wet floor, watching the the storm through the tiny window. Her mind wandered to her family. She thought back to the firefight... she didn't remember seeing blood but... the screams from Buck and Molly. And what about Gus? He struck her as the type to not go down easy... could they have really killed him too?
"Stop it... There was no blood, and no bodies. Maybe they're here... or maybe they got away," Six thought to herself and sighed just as something landed beside her. She looked down and saw a dripping wet rock. She was just about to dismiss it when another rock flew through the window.
"H-Hello?" Six said quietly.
"Six?!"
Six's frown immediately turned around.
"Reins! Thank Celestia you're safe!"
"Six, they're everywhere, this place was some kind of prison back in the day or something. I can't believe I found you!" the young stallion exclaimed. "Listen, I can't reach the window from this side. I'm going to find a key and get you out... stay put!"
"Okay! Have you found the others?"
"I... shit! I'll be back!"
"Reins? Reins?! Damnit!" Six kicked the rock against the wall and suddenly the door to her cell block opened. She ran to the bars expecting to see her friend but instead it was him—the stallion with the scar on his eye. He trotted up to her cell, a chair floating above his head with his magic. He was still in all of his gear, expect his Colt was fastened in a holster on his back leg. He set the chair down, then sat in it, staring at her. Six said nothing to him.
"I'm sorry."
Six looked at him with a mix of shock and disgust.
"You don't get to be sorry, you... you murderer! What did we even have worth taking?! Why did you do it!!?" Tears started to well up in Six's eyes.
The stallion sighed. "It was just business."
"Business... what kind of merc teams up with raiders?!"
"I was only after Gus," the stallion stated coldly. Six didn't reply, just stared daggers at him. "The others here... I'm sorry."
"The others are your murdering, thieving, and raping friends," Six hissed.
The stallion’s ears perked up. “Raping?! That’s not… They don’t..."
Six looked away from him. "Don't act like you don't know. " The stallion sat there shocked for a moment.
"Look I... fuck! I-I'm not with them! I was hired to find Gus," the stallion began. "Delta and I... I never knew she'd let the gang get away with... that."
"Leave me alone," Six ordered coldly, turning her back to him. Outside, the storm raged on, thunder rolling and lighting illuminating the small window. Six watching the rain pour in through the window when all of a sudden there was a low sound. The door down the hall had opened.
"Snow?" a voice yelled from down the hall. Six turned and noticed the stallion with the scar get up and trot towards the exit. "Tryin’ t’ take first dibs?!" the voice yelled. "Yeh, walk away, this filly's ours!"
The door to the exit shut and Six's eyes went wide. Ours?! Six's heart was pounding, these must be the "boys" Delta mentioned. 	Quickly, Six jumped to her hooves and scrambled to the sink, reaching desperately for the window. Rain began cascading onto her muzzle and face but it wouldn't- no, couldn't stop her. The sound of their hooves began to draw closer on the wet cement floor. Using all of her strength, Six pushed off the sink and lept for the window. The old ruined sink gave way and crashed onto the cell floor below just as her hooves connected with the base of the window.
"Look at that! She's trying to get out!"
Six froze, hooves still gripping the base of the window. She slowly turned as she hung there and saw two massive stallions standing just outside her cell. One began laughing hysterically, the other met her turn with a grin before beginning.
"Do me a favor an’ flip yer tail aside farm girl... or..." Slowly, he pulled a knife from his belt and waved it in front of his muzzle "Or I'll cut it off."
Six unfroze and used every ounce of her upper body strength to try and pull herself up. The rain whipped at her face as she heard the cell door begin to open slowly. Finally she pulled her head to be level with the window and could see outside for the first time. She reached her forehoof out to grab the outside of the window but something tightly grabbed her back leg.
Without looking she used her free hind leg to kick, rewarding her with a cry from one of the stallions and the feeling of hooves gripping her started to fade. She reached her hoof out and and grabbed the outside of the window but it was too late. The second stallion grabbed both her legs and pulled her down with all his strength. Six slipped from the wet window and slammed down hard into the cell's bars and cement floor. Her heart pounding and vision blurred, she looked up to see the two stallions standing over her.
"I get first go... she owes me fer the broken muzzle."
Suddenly Six felt a massive weight pin her to the ground. Her vision returned and she ignited her horn, searching for anything to use against her attackers.
"Oh no you don't, filly!" the standing stallion said, reaching down quickly and yanking her head up by her horn to meet his gaze. "You owe my friend here!" Suddenly Six felt her back legs being spread by the pony on top of her. "Now you gotta pay up," he laughed, the hysterical laughter returning. The stallion atop her huffed a hot breath onto Six's neck. Six closed her eyes as tightly as she could, trying not to cry.

Bang Bang

Six's ears rang as she felt the weight atop her disappear. She slowly opened her eyes and looked around the cell to see the two stallions laying in a combined pool of their blood, a wide hole between each of the stallions’ eyes. Six looked up. The pony with the scar on his eye blew the smoke from his floating Colt and locked eyes with her.
"I'm getting you out of here," he stated.