Doctor Whooves was walking around Ponyville and saw Cheerilee with her class of foals, they have fun and enjoy the day while Cheerilee watched and smiled. Doctor Whooves walks around and sees several older foals running around Ponyville and having fun, they were playing tag, he smiled and let them pass in front of him. Doctor Whooves continues walking and overheard a conversation,
"Did you hear, Twilight? The Wonderbolts were talking about new weapons." Rainbow Dash said,
"Yes, I know, but I don't like the sound of that, Princess Celestia once outlawed a weapon created by an earth pony to use against unicorns and Pegasi since it hurt so much." Twilight Sparkle replied,
"What was this weapon called?" Rainbow Dash asked,
"I don't remember. A gun, I think." Twilight Sparkle replied, and Doctor Whooves walks into his office.
Doctor Whooves sat at his office and was waiting for his next patient, he sighed as he waited. An hour passes and he hears walking, a male earth pony entered, he had a dark medium blue coat, a short blue mane and tail, purple eyes, and his cutie mark was a silver revolver with a brown wooden handle, he was as tall and as muscular as Big Macintosh, the earth pony sat across from Doctor Whooves,
"Are you the patient?" Doctor Whooves asked, the earth pony nods,
"State your name and occupation." Doctor Whooves said,
"Gunslinger, candy store clerk and owner of an orphanage." the earth pony replied in a calm and barely audible voice,
"You sound like an introverted pony." Doctor Whooves said, Gunslinger nods in agreement,
"You were mentioned by one of my previous patients." Doctor Whooves said,
"Who?" Gunslinger asked,
"Tao, he meant a pony named Marston, he said he had two guns with him, and one of his friends said he bought it from you." Doctor Whooves replied,
"I made and sold guns before my current occupations." Gunslinger said,
"I need to know that as well, I need your backstory along with your tale." Doctor Whooves replied,
"Why?" Gunslinger asked calmly,
"So I can get a better understanding of you, I'm required to write down every patient I have and their backgrounds." Doctor Whooves replied,
"I wish to get this done in as few words as possible." Gunslinger said,
"I understand, but I still need to know your background." Doctor Whooves replied,
"Very well." Gunslinger said, and he begins his tale
Gunslinger was an outlaw who was in a dangerous gang of ponies who hated every other type of creature, they operated outside of Equestria and drifted from place to place, there were six members, Gunslinger, a male earth pony named Zulu, a male Pegasus named Gladiator, a male Pegasus named Spartan, a male unicorn named Bushido, and a male unicorn named Templar, the hierarchy of the gang from highest to lowest was Templar, Gladiator, Zulu, Spartan, Bushido, Gunslinger, all six of them were very dangerous. Gunslinger made a new weapon and the others looked,
"What is that, Gunslinger?" Bushido asked,
"A new weapon, a long ranged weapon to be exact, I call it the gun, it's a weapon for earth ponies to use against unicorns and Pegasi." Gunslinger replied, and they all see the semi-automatic pistols,
"I use rocks to carve its ammo, I call them bullets." Gunslinger said, and he loads the pistol, he wraps his front right hoof around and trigger guard and holds it straight, he fires the pistol and it was very loud, but it worked, the other five ponies cheered and Gunslinger continued making more guns after that, he started with pistols, he improved it overtime with the help of Templar, who used his magic to make springs and gun parts appear for him, but Gunslinger had to shape them first, then Templar casted a duplicating spell, Gunslinger made one hoofed shotguns next, and then two hoofed shotguns, then rifles, he also made grenade launchers after several years of practice, the grenades were improvised explosive stage props he bought from Trixie, he began to make rocket launchers a few months later, a year later, Gunslinger made automatic weapons, he made machine guns and assault rifles, he made machine pistols last.
Gunslinger made blueprints of his weapons in case he had to build them again since he had too many to carry, and Templar used his magic to destroy them so nocreature would find them and use them, it also destroyed evidence of where they went. Gunslinger and his gang were in Mount Aris and were robbing the hippogriffs of their valuables, the six were on the run and a male hippogriff and a female hippogriff flew down in front of them, Gunslinger took the two hoofed shotgun off of his back while Bushido held a katana with his telekinesis, his magic aura was red, Templar had a lance, his magic aura was white, and Gladiator, Spartan, and Zulu had swords, Zulu held his sword in his mouth while Gladiator and Spartan held theirs in their front right hoofs,
"Halt!" the female hippogriff said, Gunslinger fires two shots from his shotgun and kills the two hippogriffs, the six run away and lose the hippogriffs. Gunslinger waited for the heat to die down and went back to Mount Aris, he hears crying and looked, he saw a female toddler hippogriff crying over the two hippogriffs he just killed, he realized the crying hippogriff was their daughter, and he felt deep remorse, he saw Terramar and Silverstream run to the crying hippogriff and comfort her.
"Wow, that must've been hard to watch." Doctor Whooves said,
"It was." Gunslinger replied,
"Does it still affect you to this day?" Doctor Whooves asked,
"Still having nightmares about it." Gunslinger replied,
"How does this tie in to later?" Doctor Whooves asked,
"That memory is the reason why I developed a soft spot for children, it's also why I built an orphanage." Gunslinger replied,
"Ah, I see, well, go on." Doctor Whooves said, and Gunslinger continues.
Time passes and Gunslinger and his gang continue robbing the other creatures around Equestria and they receive word of the changelings invading Canterlot, so Gunslinger and his gang found their hideout around the time the Crystal Heart destroyed King Sombra. Templar, Bushido, Gladiator, Spartan, Zulu, and Gunslinger rob the changelings of the things they found valuable and began to run,
"Stop them!" Queen Chrysalis said, and several changelings appear in front of them, Gunslinger opens fire with the assault rifle he had and kills them, Queen Chrysalis looked on with horror, she has never seen such a weapon, the six ponies make it outside,
"Okay, barricade them inside." Templar said, and the other five ponies seal the only entrance and exit in the changeling kingdom, Templar then uses his magic to set the entire changeling kingdom on fire, the changelings scream and try to get out of the changeling kingdom while Gunslinger and his gang went into their cart and Templar drove off while he and the other five ponies hoped for the fire to burn the changelings alive. Templar drives the cart away from the changeling kingdom and they hear flying above them, they look up and saw Pegasi royal guards coming,
"What the? Royal guards?" Spartan asked,
"It must be Princess Celestia, she's not happy with us." Bushido replied, and Templar keeps driving, they see more Equestrian royal guards up ahead,
"What the? What is this?" Gladiator asked,
"Yeah, why are there so many guards?" Zulu asked, Templar speeds up the cart while he and Bushido shot zaps everywhere, and Gunslinger fired from his assault rifle, the royal guards exclaim with surprise and covered their ears' since the bullets were very loud, it distracted them and some of them fell and covered their ears' since the bullets were too loud for them to handle. Templar drives the cart forward and saw unicorn and earth pony guards up ahead, they barricaded their way with wagons, Gunslinger fires bullets into the air, the loudness of the gun hurt the ears of the guards and Templar speeds up and drives past the wagons and destroys them,
"Drat, there's more up ahead." Templar said, and they see Pegasi guards flying to them with spears, Bushido shoots them down with zaps from his horn, and Gunslinger fired more bullets, the loud gun hurt their ears'. Templar, Bushido, Spartan, Gladiator, and Zulu laugh,
"We made it." Spartan said,
"Yup, we sure did. Okay, next stop, Yakyakistan, the usual, explore the place, find their goods, rob them, escape, and kill anyone who gets in our way." Templar replied,
"Train!" Zulu said, and Templar speeds up and just barely misses it, all but Gunslinger laugh as Templar drives to Yakyakistan. The six enter the snow covered area of Equestria and a blue zap hits the ground right behind them, starling all but Gunslinger, who looked up to see what it was,
"STOP RIGHT THERE!!" a loud, booming, female voice said, they all look up to the sky and saw Princess Luna flying after them, Templar, Bushido, Gladiator, Spartan, and Zulu had very shocked faces and Templar speeds up the cart with his magic. Templar drives the cart as fast as it went while Princess Luna flew after them, she fires zaps at them and Templar swerved the cart around and dodged them easily, Bushido shot zaps from his horn at her and Princess Luna flew around to dodge the zaps, Gunslinger opens fire with the assault rifle and Princess Luna's ears were hurt, she gets angry and casts a spell to make the assault rifle silent when it was fired, Gunslinger noticed the assault rifle still worked and continued firing, but Princess Luna flew around and dodged the bullets, Princess Luna casts a spell and makes all four wheels on the cart fly off, leaving the six stranded. Princess Luna casts a restraining spell on them and flies down to them,
"All six of you are under arrest, you will be seeing Princess Celestia shortly." Princess Luna said, and she teleports herself and the six to Canterlot.
Gunslinger was in Canterlot with his other five gang members and Princess Celestia stood on her throne with Princess Luna standing to her left. Princess Celestia was reading a letter that she held up with her magic, she soon closes the letter,
"I have received information about the actions of you six, all of the goods you six have stole from the dragons, yaks, hippogriffs, griffons, changelings, and kirins will be returned soon. I am very disappointed in all of you, because of you six, I have to issue an apology to them and the changelings since you all set their home on fire." Princess Celestia said,
"It was justice, Princess Celestia." Spartan said,
"Yeah, they attacked us first, we're just fighting back." Templar said,
"That doesn't mean rob them of their goods, and then trapping them in their own home and setting it on fire, that is not how we deal with problems, and speaking of problems, I also have to give money to the relatives and loved ones to the lives of those you six have taken, I am very upset with you six." Princess Celestia replied, they all look down,
"I have the hierarchy of your gang in my reports as well, Templar, Gladiator, Bushido, Spartan, and Zulu, you five are going to serve time, as for you, Gunslinger, since you're the lowest in the hierarchy, and my reports state you're just an enforcer with no authority and has no role in the planning of the crimes, and you're just doing what you're told when you done those bad things, I believe you can reform if you try hard enough, I am going to let you go and have a second chance, but on one condition, if you commit any crimes in Equestria, I will have you jailed." Princess Celestia said, Gunslinger just nodded,
"Quiet one, aren't you?" Princess Luna asked,
"My reports do say he's the least talkative of the six." Princess Celestia replied,
"I see, this way, you five." Princess Luna said, and she leads them away,
"I have received reports that your parents passed away while you were not in Equestria, Gunslinger, so I could not inform them, but since you're old enough to support yourself, I suggest you do not share your past with others, and just start a new life somewhere. That is all, Gunslinger, you may leave." Princess Celestia said, and Gunslinger left and the doors closed behind him while Princess Luna walked back to Princess Celestia,
"How's the changeling kingdom?" Princess Celestia asked,
"I already have Pegasi dousing the fire with rain clouds, I hope they can save the changelings trapped inside." Princess Luna replied,
"Good, I must depart now, Luna, I have to go to the Dragon Lands, Yakyakistan, Griffonstone, Mount Aris, and Kirin Grove and issue a public apology, I can't go to the changeling kingdom now since Chrysalis is still the ruler, I hope they all understand that they were criminals and we didn't know about them until now." Princess Celestia said,
"I wish you good luck, sister, be careful." Princess Luna replied, and Gunslinger continued walking to the exit.
"Six months after that, I became a merchant and..." Gunslinger said,
"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You're not going to talk about your family?" Doctor Whooves asked,
"Irrelevant." Gunslinger replied,
"You sure?" Doctor Whooves asked, Gunslinger nods,
"Okay, go on." Doctor Whooves said, and Gunslinger did.
Six months pass after Gunslinger gave up the life of crime, he was now a merchant who traveled across Equestria and sold his guns to earth ponies, he found an old and abandoned wagon in a junkyard six months prior and took it and cleaned it, he spent the next six months making new guns to sell. Gunslinger traveled around Equestria and sold his guns to earth ponies as self defense weapons against unicorns and Pegasi, he kept track of his customers.
"Now, hold on, you were mentioned by two people I had previously as patients, one met a stallion named Marston, who had guns bought from you, and another one was a stallion named Hillbilly, he and his uncle had a gun." Doctor Whooves said,
"Marston was one of my customers, and Hillbilly's mother bought the rifle from me, but that was later." Gunslinger replied,
"Wait, one more thing, the patient who met Marston said he had a gun that had a thing to pull back and then pull the trigger to fire." Doctor Whooves said,
"A revolver, I only made them to give them a try, they're not very practical for defense since you have to pull the hammer back after each shot." Gunslinger replied,
"Okay, that is all, continue." Doctor Whooves said, and Gunslinger did.
Gunslinger sold his guns at between fifteen bits and thirty bits, since the guns took a long time to make and were one of a kind, some earth ponies only bought the guns to have as antiques, some actually used them, and Gunslinger kept a record of every customer he had. Gunslinger sold his guns to whoever had money, but after a week, a male Pegasus royal guard flew down to him,
"You're wanted in Canterlot's throne room, and bring those items with you." the royal guard said, and he flew away, Gunslinger walked to Canterlot.
Gunslinger went to Canterlot and was in the throne room, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were present,
"Well, well, we find ourselves here once again, Gunslinger." Princess Celestia said,
"You should ashamed of yourself! Selling such a weapon in Equestria!" Princess Luna said, Gunslinger remained silent,
"*sigh* Look, Gunslinger, those things you sell are too loud, they're waking us up when we try to sleep, but that's not the reason why you're in trouble, the reason is one of our citizens got hurt by these weapons you are selling, take a look for yourself." Princess Celestia said, and Princess Luna brings the victim forward with her magic. Gunslinger hears crying and saw it was a purple Pegasus filly with a blue mane and tail, her right wing was open with a hole in it,
"It took us a long time to get the projectile out, Gunslinger, and as you can see, the wound was infected, and she now has a hole in her wing, she will be unable to fly for the rest of her life." Princess Celestia said,
"What do you have to say for yourself?" Princess Luna asked, Gunslinger just looked down in shame and regret and was silent,
"Gunslinger, I would like for you to say something." Princess Celestia said, Gunslinger did not,
"Answer us!" Princess Luna said sternly,
"Sorry." Gunslinger said,
"That's it?! You're sorry?!" Princess Luna asked angrily,
"I did not foresee something like this happening." Gunslinger said in a calm and barely audible tone, surprising the two princesses,
"I'm going to let you go since I can clearly see you are really trying to reform, but you must give those weapons to me, I am outlawing them since they are loud, and they cause whoever is hit excruciating pain, I understand the need to fight back against threats, Gunslinger, but causing as much pain on them as possible in the process is unacceptable." Princess Celestia said, Gunslinger gave his guns to them and Princess Luna uses her magic to destroy them,
"You may go, Gunslinger, you can keep the money you made." Princess Celestia said,
"Are the filly's parents filing any complaints about me?" Gunslinger asked,
"They have not decided yet, now go, I wish you better luck reforming next time." Princess Celestia replied, and Gunslinger left while he heard the filly cried, he walks out of Canterlot and went elsewhere.
Three weeks pass and Gunslinger wandered around north of Canterlot, he had enough bits to purchase a large house made entirely from wood, Gunslinger then wandered around the area and bought furniture for the house, he bought a tea green chair that could seat three ponies, the house already had an oven, a stove, a fireplace, and ventilation shaft. Gunslinger begins looking for rocks and wood around the area and begins shaping with his hoofs to make guns again, he also bought brass instruments from a music store from a town that was a little far away, he begins using his hoofs to shape them into bullets, it was hard, and it took time, but he managed to make new guns, he made two pistols, a one hoofed shotgun, a two hoofed shotgun, and a rifle.
"You're not going to tell me where you put them?" Doctor Whooves asked,
"Irrelevant." Gunslinger replied,
"Don't worry, Gunslinger, the princesses won't hear about this." Doctor Whooves said,
"Where I put them has nothing to do with my tale." Gunslinger replied in a calm and emotionless voice,
"Oh, well, go on, then." Doctor Whooves said, and they continue.
A week passes and Gunslinger was exercising every day to keep himself in shape, he was fast and strong for an earth pony, and he wished to keep that, he started a charity by going to the nearby town, he asked ponies to donate money to him so he can build an orphanage, and most of the ponies agreed and donated money to him, liking the idea, he worked in the town by selling candy to foals, one day ends and a male earth pony royal guard enters the shop,
"Are you Gunslinger?" the royal guard asked, Gunslinger nods,
"Good, I'm just here to let you know that Archer has just become a deputy captain, you are invited to attend the banquet in Canterlot to congratulate them, banquet is tonight at six o'clock." the royal guard said,
"I can't come." Gunslinger replied,
"Why not?" the royal guard asked,
"I'm still working at that time." Gunslinger replied,
"Well, banquet lasts until nine, you can still come by then." the royal guard said,
"My shift doesn't end until eleven thirty." Gunslinger replied,
"Oh, wow, well, I'll tell Archer you can't make it, even though it'll make her upset." the royal guard said, and he left.
"Who is this Archer?" Doctor Whooves asked,
"Relative." Gunslinger replied,
"Is she relevant?" Doctor Whooves asked,
"Little." Gunslinger replied,
"Okay, go on." Doctor Whoves said, and Gunslinger does.
Gunslinger continues working at the candy shop and he sold candy to foals who entered to buy, while those who did not have enough money to buy what they wanted were given to them by Gunslinger for free, which made them happy, he finishes for a day and Gunslinger closes the shop. Gunslinger heads home and begins exercising, he did stretches, cardio, and weight lifting, he was in great shape for his age and for an earth pony stallion, he stretched his legs, back, neck, and abdomen, he did push ups and clapped his front hoofs behind his back and below his chest before putting them back on the floor, abdominal crunches, lunges with both of his hind legs while holding dumbbells, jump squats, squats while holding his front legs out, military presses with a barbell, wood choppers with a shovel that he got as a gift from one of ponies in the town who did not need it, dumbbell curls with his front legs, and reverse curls with his front legs. Gunslinger begins to do shadow boxing while standing on his hind legs, he does punches and kicks and saw he can still do flips and somersaults, and spin kicks while in midair, he went outside with his guns and went far away from the town.
Gunslinger enters the woods to the north of his home and begins doing target practice with his guns, he saw he was still a sharpshooter, and hit his targets with pinpoint accuracy, no matter how far away the target was, he did it in the woods since his guns were very loud, and would scare the ponies, he continues shooting until he was out of bullets, he hit all of his targets, he went home after picking up every casing. Gunslinger heads home and was meditating, he opens his eyes when he hears wheels rolling outside, he goes out and sees a male Pegasus walking, he had a powder blue coat, a short dirty white mane and tail, dark reddish pink eyes, and his cutie mark was a magnifying glass. Gunslinger watches him and was uncomfortable looking at him, he was suspicious of him since he had two big wagons with him, one was red, and the other was blue, the red one was behind the blue one,
"Excuse me." the pony said as he walked to Gunslinger,
"Where's the nearest town?" the pony asked, Gunslinger shrugged,
"Oh, you don't know, well, if you haven't heard of me, my name is Archaeologist, I'm an archaeologist turned show magician, I do small shows." the Pegasus said, Gunslinger just stood there,
"So, you don't know where the nearest town is at?" Archaeologist asked, Gunslinger shook his head,
"Oh well, I'll just fly up and look." Archaeologist said, and he does, he sees the nearby town,
"Uh-huh!" Archaeologist said, and he flew down,
"I have found my next destination, I'm going to enjoy entertaining the foals in the town." Archaeologist said, and he began to walk there. Gunslinger watched Archaeologist leave and was suspicious, he noticed his mouth water when he said the word "foals", Gunslinger did not trust Archaeologist at all, and was ready to grab his guns and fire at him if he harmed any of the foals in the town. Gunslinger exercised in his house and slept lightly, three hours pass and he hears chatting in the town, so he decides to go out to see what was going on.
Gunslinger stands in a crowd and saw the two wagons from earlier, the blue wagon opens and Gunslinger sees a stage,
"Come, all children! Come and witness the talented Archaeologist perform his art with perfection!" Archaeologist said, smoke appears and Archaeologist appeared, the foals were surprised,
"Now, watch in fear as Archaeologist performs a horror show for you all, you all will not sleep again after tonight." Archaeologist said, and he begins using strings he had at the bottom of the stage and flies up to pull the curtains behind him open. Gunslinger and the others see a graveyard, they see a puppet colt walking forward, the foal was a bluish purple color with red marks all over his body, they appeared to be teeth marks. The foals were scared by its appearance, the foal begins to dance while he stood on his hind legs and his knees bend backwards at times, scaring the foals,
"Come on, Postmortem, smile for the children." Archaeologist said, and he flies down and places strings on the sides of his mouth, his smiles a very wide smile, it scared the foals.
The ground bursts open and a stallion comes up, he was wearing clown makeup, his face was white, the area around his eyes were blue, his ears were pointed, and he had his upper row of teeth, his eyes and lower jaw were missing, which made the foals scream,
"Hello there, young one, what are you doing here?" Archaeologist asked as he controlled the stallion,
"I... I'm here to see my grandmother's grave." Archaeologist replied as he controlled the colt,
"Your grandmother? I know where she is, but surely, you would like a souvenir." Archaeologist said as he controlled the stallion,
"Sure, I want a balloon!" Archaeologist replied as he made the colt jump up and down,
"Very well, in a minute." Archaeologist said as he controlled the stallion, he made him turn around and controlled its front legs as if he was making a balloon animal,
"How about...?" Archaeologist asked as he controlled the stallion to make it look like he was making a balloon animal, the foals watch with fear,
"A balloon animal made up of your relatives?" Archaeologist asked as he made the stallion turn around and was holding a balloon animal shaped like a giraffe, but the balloon animal was made up of what appeared to be the body parts of various ponies stitched together, each part was a different color with black stitches, the foals scream in terror. The colt backs away in fear while the stallion stood there, the ground erupts to the stallion's right and a mare appeared, her coat was a dark white color with black spots of dirt on her, she had teeth in her ears as piercings, she was scalped on her head and her brain was exposed, she also had scabs on where her cutie mark should be, and silver wires were pressed against her head and wrapped around it at the back of her head, she also had stitches on her chest, where her heart is, which Gunslinger took note of. The foals scream in terror at the mare's appearance,
"Hello, there, I've got a gift for you, too." Archaeologist said as he controlled the mare, he made his own voice raspy to do the mare's voice,
"No, thank you." Archaeologist said as he controlled the colt,
"Don't worry, I promise you will like it." Archaeologist said as he controlled the mare, she puts her own front right hoof in her mouth and she gags, the foals watch with fear, the mare gags and looks down, bile falls out of her mouth, which disgusted the foals, the mare finishes and vomits out a skeleton, which made the foals scream. The skeleton walks towards Postmortem and tried to hug him, but he backs away,
"Come, don't be afraid, I'm a dancer, like you, watch." Archaeologist said as he controlled the skeleton, it begins to dance with its joints bending backwards and its bones falling off,
"You're falling apart." Archaeologist said as he controlled the foal,
"Don't worry, my parts are replaceable, but come to think of it, my parts are old, and I need new ones." Archaeologist said as he controlled the skeleton,
"No, get away from me." Archaeologist said as he controlled the colt, the skeleton grabs him and tries to restrain him, but he fights back, the stallion and mare walk over and restrain him, the skeleton opens its mouth Archaeologist screams as he voiced the colt being eaten alive, the foals watching were scared, he also flies around to put bones on the skeleton while he ate the colt, he finishes and continues,
"Bleh!" Archaeologist said as he controlled the skeleton and spits up what appeared to be the skin of Postmortem, the foals scream in terror,
"I am young once again." Archaeologist said as he controlled the skeleton,
"Remember kids, be afraid, be very afraid, or somepony like this may come to your house at night." Archaeologist said as he controlled the stallion,
"And that's the end, foals." Archaeologist said as he stood in front of the stage on his hind legs and holding his front legs out to the sides, the foals were too scared to say or do anything, they quivered in fear, Archaeologist smiled menacingly while Gunslinger watches him with suspicion,
"You're a phony!" a purple filly said,
"What was that?" Archaeologist asked,
"Those aren't real, those ponies are just props!" the filly replied,
"Really, then come on up here and feel them for yourself." Archaeologist said, and the filly did, she feels the stallion, mare, colt, and skeleton, she screams,
"They're real!" the filly said, Gunslinger was instantly alarmed and got defensive,
"That's right, these are all real, now don't sleep, kids, or someone or something will come for you." Archaeologist said, the foals quiver with fear while Archaeologist closed the blue wagon and he goes to another part of the town while the foals leave. Gunslinger walks around the town and sees foals scared already, he saw Archaeologist resting and his two wagons closed,
"Go on, get out of here, scat." a male voice said, Gunslinger sees a stallion shooing away foals, he saw a colt and a filly running away while whimpering, Gunslinger saw the stallion shooing them away, he had a pale red coat, short black mane on the sides and back of his head and a black tail, he was bald on top of his head, his cutie mark was a black cash register with three gold bits going into it, Gunslinger recognized the stallion, it was Slimeball, he also sold things for a living, but he only sold his things to adults, but they were expensive and made of cheap quality. Many ponies in the town dislike Slimeball, mainly for his personality, but he is unfriendly with children, Gunslinger knew if he wanted to have an orphanage built, Slimeball will try to prevent it from being built since he hated children, and was an obstacle. Slimeball looks and saw Gunslinger,
"Ah, Gunslinger." Slimeball said as he trotted to him,
"As the only other merchant in town, I think we should work together to accomplish a certain goal." Slimeball said,
"What?" Gunslinger asked,
"Get rid of these annoying brats that want to buy from our stores, and to keep them out." Slimeball replied, Gunslinger shook his head,
"Oh, come on, Gunslinger, it'll mean less noise, and less annoying people in the shop, I can already imagine seeing those foals cry as they cannot buy what they want from us anymore, and only their adults have to." Slimeball said, Gunslinger shook his head again,
"Give me one reason why we should continue to allow children in our shops." Slimeball said,
"No money." Gunslinger replied,
"Well, for you, but not for me, since only adults can spend in my shop, you can do the same thing." Slimeball said,
"No." Gunslinger replied,
"Why not?" Slimeball asked,
"All of my customers are children." Gunslinger replied,
"Not a single adult comes in to buy candy?" Slimeball asked, Gunslinger shook his head,
"Well, that's a shame, but you should come to my store one day, the quality of your candy will be hundred times better if you buy them from my store." Slimeball said, Gunslinger did not respond even though he knew Slimeball was lying,
"Hello." a stallion said,
"Oh, I have a customer, hope you change your mind, Gunslinger." Slimeball said, and he goes to his store, Gunslinger sighs and heads back to his home. Gunslinger enters the wooden house he lived in and it was untidy, he had paperwork for his job by the couch he sits on, he also had free candy due to his job, he had wrappers of them laying on the floor, he did not eat candy often, he usually ate pizza from the restaurant in the town, he had boxes of them laying on the floor, opened and unopened, he also had empty bottles of water and energy drinks littered across the floor, and empty orange pill bottles of muscle supplements, Gunslinger also had flies, spiders, and cockroaches in his home. Gunslinger meditates in his house while he waits for night to come, he keeps waiting and he was now tired, so he laid down on the wooden floor and sleeps.
"I woke that night and..." Gunslinger said,
"You're not going to talk about your dream?" Doctor Whooves asked,
"Irrelevant." Gunslinger replied,
"You sure, Gunslinger? Dreams can say a lot about your feelings and situation." Doctor Whooves said,
"Flashback." Gunslinger replied,
"Those usually say a lot, too." Doctor Whooves said,
"Of me living with my family." Gunslinger replied,
"I see, you're not like my other patients." Doctor Whooves said,
"How?" Gunslinger asked,
"Well, first of all, you talk in a quieter and calmer tone, and compared to my other patients, you talk very little." Doctor Whooves replied,
"Can I continue?" Gunslinger asked,
"Yes, continue on." Doctor Whooves replied, and Gunslinger does.
Gunslinger wakes up at night and gets his two pistols, he heads out and goes to the town, he looks and hears voices, he sneaks around and sees Archaeologist greeting the parents of one of the foals, he shakes hoofs with the stallion and the mare, Archaeologist seemed friendly and pleasant, and the two ponies were smiling and enjoying conversing with him, but Gunslinger still did not trust him, so he watched Archaeologist and saw him knocking on doors and meeting the adult ponies in the town, he looks and sees a few foals in their beds since it was their bedtime, but they were all too scared to sleep due to Archaeologist's show, he decides to watch Archaeologist, he sees him greet Slimeball and he likes him immediately since Archaeologist was an adult, but he did not shake hoofs with him, he leaves and Gunslinger continues sneaking around to watch Archaeologist.
Gunslinger sneaks to in front of a house and jumps, he lands on the roof and continues watching Archaeologist, he aims the pistol in his front right hoof at him in case he tried to hurt anypony, but he did not, he finished greeting every adult pony in town and shook hoofs with them, he went back to his two wagons and slept, Gunslinger jumps down onto the ground, he goes back into his home and sleeps. Gunslinger wakes up the next morning and does his morning exercises and takes protein and muscle supplements afterwards, he was careful not to squash any of the bugs in his home, he was especially careful not to squash the spiders so he does not get bitten, he finishes his morning routine and heads to work.
Gunslinger works at the candy shop and he hears Slimeball outside shooing away a filly asking for candy, she runs away crying when Slimeball threatened to hit her, he looks and sees she wanted a chocolate bar that he sold, Gunslinger looks and sees the chocolate bars of that type were gone, he realized that Slimeball has stolen items from the candy store and put them in his own store once again. Gunslinger sees foals come in and realized school was done for today, he tends to the customers and gives them the candies they wanted, but they see several candies were missing and the foals began to cry, Gunslinger exits the shop to confront him.
Gunslinger goes to Slimeball's store and saw him standing outside,
"Why, Gunslinger, fancy meeting you here, my lovely, equally competent partner." Slimeball said,
"Return them." Gunslinger said,
"Return what?" Slimeball asked,
"The candy." Gunslinger replied,
"Oh, Gunslinger, I am sorry, but I am low on stock with those candies, so I am merely borrowing and will return it when I am done." Slimeball said, Gunslinger knew he was lying by the tone of his voice,
"Well, if you wish, I can give them back to you, at a fair price." Slimeball said,
"How much?" Gunslinger asked,
"A thousand bits." Slimeball replied,
"For all?" Gunslinger asked,
"A thousand bits per piece of candy." Slimeball replied,
"What do you need that money for?" Gunslinger asked,
"Personal reasons." Slimeball replied, Gunslinger remained silent for a minute,
"I'll see what I can do." Gunslinger said,
"Okay, Gunslinger, I will be waiting for your answer." Slimeball replied, and Gunslinger went back to the candy store. Gunslinger reenters the candy store and the foals look at him eagerly, Gunslinger shook his head, which made the foals cry, Gunslinger trots to them and begins to hug them to comfort them, their crying got so loud, the natives to the town and travelers heard them and went to the store, the natives look and realized Slimeball has taken the candy again, they go to his store and bang on the door,
"Slimeball!" a female earth pony said angrily,
"Open the door, Slimeball!" a male unicorn said angrily, he comes out,
"What can I get you fine adults today?" Slimeball asked with a smile,
"Are you stealing candy from the candy store again?!" a female Pegasus asked angrily,
"I am merely restocking, the candy in my store is relatively low." Slimeball replied,
"You are stealing candy from the candy store again." a male Pegasus said,
"Return it to the store, Slimeball." a male earth pony said,
"I am willing to sell it to you all if you all have the money." Slimeball replied,
"How much money do you want?" a female earth pony asked,
"A thousand bits per piece of candy." Slimeball replied,
"WHAT?!" a second female earth pony asked,
"It's now two thousand bits per piece." Slimeball replied,
"SLIMEBALL!!" a second female Pegasus yelled angrily,
"Four thousand bits per piece." Slimeball said,
"Come on, Slimeball." a second male Pegasus said,
"The more you complain, the higher I'm going to raise the price." Slimeball replied, the ponies growl,
"Forget it, let's just go." a second male unicorn said, and they leave while Slimeball smiles. The travelers enter the candy shop and give the foals whatever treats they had, the foals were still upset,
"I'm going to contact Ponyville." a male unicorn said,
"Good idea, let's have one of those six mares come down here for help." a female Pegasus replied, Gunslinger overheard them and listened, he did not think of the six saviors of Equestria very highly, he thought Twilight Sparkle was a worrywart and too emotional to rule, he thought Rainbow Dash was too impulsive and naive, he thought Fluttershy was too passive, he thought Pinkie Pie was too loud and too childish, he thought Rarity was too nitpicky, and he thought Applejack was too stubborn and too honest, he thought Princess Celestia choosing Twilight Sparkle to be a princess was a poor choice.
"Why are you sharing that for?" Doctor Whooves asked,
"Thought it'd be useful information for you." Gunslinger replied,
"How did you come to that conclusion?" Doctor Whooves asked,
"Just thought you could try to persuade Celestia to make better decisions, I hoped my opinion could be helpful with that." Gunslinger replied,
"Oh, it isn't, go on." Doctor Whooves said, and Gunslinger continues his tale.
Gunslinger sells whatever he had in the store and was soon sold out, which saddened the foals, they hear dashing and wheels,
"It's Pinkie Pie!" a filly said, and they run outside excitedly. Pinkie Pie throws a party for the foals and delivers free candy to the foals, she also played music and sang for the foals, which they all enjoyed. Slimeball was very annoyed by Pinkie Pie's antics and stepped outside his store, he had a steel five pound dumbbell in his front right hoof, he throws it and at Pinkie Pie and hits her in the head, she screams as she fell onto her left side,
"Get out of here, you stupid pink pony!" Slimeball said angrily, Pinkie Pie cried from the pain and the foals went to check on her, Slimeball went to Pinkie Pie's wagon and took her candy and party supplies and carried them into his store,
"God, I hate that Pinkie Pie." Slimeball grumbled as he walked back to his store, Gunslinger looked at Pinkie Pie, she was still crying and in pain, he went to go check on her and see her head was swollen, he goes home and gets a napkin wet with cold water from the sink and comes back, he presses it onto the area where the dumbbell hit her, she screams in pain,
"THAT HURTS!!" Pinkie Pie said,
"Hold her." Gunslinger said, and the foals do, Gunslinger continues to press down and Pinkie Pie felt the pain go down. Pinkie Pie stands up shortly afterwards,
"Where are my things?" Pinkie Pie asked, she looks around and saw all of her treats, musical instruments, and party materials were in Slimeball's store,
"HEY!!" Pinkie Pie yelled angrily as she dashed into his store, he quickly runs after her and grabs her, he throws her out of his store,
"GIVE ME BACK MY THINGS!!" Pinkie Pie yelled angrily,
"My store is not open to the likes of you." Slimeball said,
"LET ME IN!!" Pinkie Pie yelled angrily as she tried to run inside, but Slimeball grabs her, holds her back, and begins punching her in the face with his front hoofs several times, he throws her away from his store and Pinkie Pie screamed while she was in midair, she falls onto the ground while Slimeball enters his store, closes the doors, and locks them. Pinkie Pie cries while she laid on the ground in defeat, the foals went to her and were sad to see Pinkie Pie upset, Gunslinger went into the candy store and got whatever candy he had left and went out to give them to Pinkie Pie, she stops crying and looks at Gunslinger, she takes the candy and smiles,
"Ooh, I've never seen a candy bar like this one." Pinkie Pie said, and she eats the chocolate bar,
"It's... it's..." Pinkie Pie said while the foals look at her nervously,
"Scrumdiddlyumptious!" Pinkie Pie said happily as she flew around, she landed on the ground afterwards, she gives out the candy to the foals and they become happier,
"Sorry, everypony, but I can't come back here until that big meanie of a pony is gone." Pinkie Pie said, the foals groan with disappointment,
"Don't be sad, you all can always come see me in Ponyville." Pinkie Pie said,
"Yay!" the foals said,
"I'll be going now, till next time everypony." Pinkie Pie said,
"Bye." the foals said as they waved at her while she left. Gunslinger closed the shop early since everything was sold out and he walked around. Gunslinger looks for Archaeologist and sees his two wagons nearby, he decides it would not be wise to approach unarmed, so he goes back to his house, grabs a pistol, and heads back, he checks the wagons and sees the blue wagon was unlocked, and had the stage he used, he checks the red wagon and saw it was locked, he did not shoot the lock since the gunshots from his guns were loud, and it would alert Archaeologist, so he looks for a gap in the space between the side door and the wagon to try to see what was inside. Gunslinger looks through and sees various colors inside, they were moving as well, Gunslinger places his left ear on the red wagon and hears moaning and whimpering,
"Somebody's coming." a female voice said, Gunslinger realized it was a filly,
"Keep your voice down." a male voice said, Gunslinger realized it was a colt, he looks around and saw Archaeologist was not in his sight, so he jumps and lands on a tree branch, he looks around and saw Archaeologist was away from the town and eating something, but he could not see what it was, so he jumps up and climbs onto the tree branch above him, he still could not see what Archaeologist was eating, he finishes and flies away and leaves his meal behind, Gunslinger looks and sees red liquid dripping from Archaeologist's mouth from behind while he flew away. Gunslinger jumped from tree to tree and landed on the branches, he then begins to jump down the tree he was on by landing on the branches, he was on a branch and saw what Archaeologist was eating, it was a skeleton, Gunslinger continues looking at it and sees it was the skeleton of a foal. Gunslinger quickly jumped from tree to tree and climbed down when he was at the one nearest to his house, he runs into the house and grabbed his guns, he heads outside and jumps onto a tree branch, he jumps up to reach the one above him until he was at the top of the tree, he looks for Archaeologist while holding his rifle in his front hoofs.
Gunslinger watches carefully and scouts the town, he also looked behind himself for Archaeologist, he was nowhere to be seen, he hears a lot of chatter and saw the adult ponies arguing with the foals, this caught his attention and he listens carefully,
"But mommy, I don't wanna see Archaeologist, he's scary." a filly said,
"Oh, don't be like that, Archaeologist is actually a very nice and friendly pony in person, you should hang out with him." the filly's mother replied,
"Do I have to go see Archaeologist, mom?" a colt asked,
"Yes, you do, go make a new friend." the colt's mother replied, Gunslinger heard enough to know something was wrong, he gets down from the tree and puts the rifle on his back and heads into town. Gunslinger trots into town and saw the adult ponies forcing the foals to see Archaeologist, some talked back, but to no avail, the foals look down and leave the town. Slimeball laughs at seeing them leave,
"Yes! Those brats and idiots are finally leaving." Slimeball said and he goes into his shop and puts up a sign that said everything in his store was seventy five percent off for the adults. Gunslinger runs to the adults and they look at him, he sees their eye colors have changed, they were now dark gold,
"Ah, Gunslinger, just the pony, can you be a dear and lead our children to go see Archaeologist?" a mare asked, Gunslinger got defensive,
"Don't worry, Gunslinger, Archaeologist won't hurt the children, he loves children." a stallion said, Gunslinger just walked away,
"Don't go, Gunslinger, Archaeologist needs the children now." the stallion said, Gunslinger kept walking and saw Slimeball's eyes were not dark gold like the other adults,
"This way." Gunslinger said, and the foals were shocked,
"Go on, you all will like where he leads you all." a second mare said, and the foals reluctantly follow him. The foals follow him and Gunslinger leads them to his home, they enter and exclaim with disgust at how untidy his house was, Gunslinger barricades the door with his couch and locked the windows,
"Hide." Gunslinger said quietly, and the foals get down, they were disgusted by the cockroaches, scared by the spiders, and nervous by the flies. Gunslinger gets the pizza boxes scattered around the floor and opens them,
"Dinner." Gunslinger said, and they eat them,
"What do we do for now, Gunslinger?" a light black colt asked,
"Hide." Gunslinger replied, he was thinking about how to do deal with Archaeologist,
"You said you were raising money to build an orphanage, Gunslinger." a green filly said,
"I am." Gunslinger replied,
"Where's the money?" the green filly asked,
"There." Gunslinger replied as he looked to his right, the foals saw the bits, he did not have enough to build an orphanage. Gunslinger stayed on high alert and watched through the windows, they hear Archaeologist scream with rage from outside, it scared the foals while Gunslinger got ready to fight,
"That Gunslinger tricked me! Where did he take those kids?!" Archaeologist asked with rage, Gunslinger decided not to take the chance of investigating the town,
"Get down." Gunslinger whispered, and he and the foals lay on their stomachs on the floor, they hear Archaeologist growling and grumbling from afar, it scared the foals, he did sounded like a monster rather than a pony,
"Don't just stand there, all of you, look for them!" Archaeologist said angrily, his voice changed as well, it was more distorted, it sounded like demonic snarling and it echoed, which scared the foals, Gunslinger crawled around his home and got his two hoofed shotgun, he crawled to the front door and opened it slowly after moving the couch a little bit, he squeezes out and closes it slowly and heads out.
Gunslinger arrives outside and watches his surroundings carefully while carrying the shotgun on his back, he goes into the town and saw Slimeball was selling his items to the adult ponies, they come out and the items from his store quickly break apart from use, the adult ponies gather around his store,
"You all know the rules, no refunds." Slimeball said, the adult ponies stopped arguing and just left. Gunslinger walks forward slowly and looked back occasionally, he looks into Slimeball's store and saw he was selling items of cheap quality, and can tell they would break apart by just simply touching them, he leaves and looks for Archaeologist. Gunslinger walks around and was quiet, he hears wagon wheels nearby and he jumps up and goes onto a roof, he takes his shotgun off of his back and holds it in his front hoofs, he looks around and saw Archaeologist with his two wagons, he goes to the woods and disconnects the red wagon, he comes back into town with only the blue wagon, he walks around was looking into the houses, he grunts loudly in anger while kicking a trash bin down with his hind left leg, he grumbles while looking into houses. Gunslinger jumps down and walks quietly to the red wagon in the woods, he holds the shotgun out in front of him, he quickly looks back and saw no one following him, so he turned forward, but stopped when he saw Archaeologist in front of him,
"Hello again." Archaeologist said, Gunslinger aimed the gun at him,
"Oh, come on now, you don't need to be defensive around me, I'm perfectly harmless." Archaeologist said, Gunslinger kept his guard up,
"Where are the children?" Archaeologist asked, Gunslinger did not answer,
"Where are the children?" Archaeologist asked in an annoyed tone, Gunslinger just continued to aim the shotgun,
"Where are the children?!" Archaeologist asked in an angry tone, Gunslinger just stood there with the gun aimed at him. Archaeologist tries to lunge forward and attack Gunslinger, but he fires and shoots him in the head, the gunshot was very loud. Archaeologist was only shot back a few inches, Archaeologist slowly moves his head and looks at Gunslinger, the bullet was in the center of his forehead, but it did not go through his skin. Gunslinger looks and sees pink flesh around the bullet, he realized something was wrong, the bullet falls off and Archaeologist's head mutates, it was now pink, his eyes remained the same, his mane was gone, his ears become pointed at the top, his snout becomes two small holes, and his teeth become yellow, razor sharp, fanged teeth. Four pink tentacles come out of the area of Archaeologist's head that Gunslinger shot, three more pink tentacles came out of his mouth, Gunslinger realized those three were his tongue, the tentacles roar and Gunslinger saw yellow, razor sharp, fanged teeth inside the tentacles as well, they stretch out and try to bite Gunslinger, he jumps back and fires another bullet from his shotgun, he hits Archaeologist in his chest, the rest of his body begins to mutate. Archaeologist's body turns pink, he had yellow, razor sharp, fanged teeth going down the center of his chest and abdomen, his muscles grew bigger, he had three yellow claws on each hoof, his wings also grew bigger, the wings now had black arms and the digits at the bottom that were also black, the patagium on the wings were pink, and Archaeologist's tail was pink with a sharp yellow tip.
Archaeologist holds his front right hoof up while Gunslinger watched, paralyzed at the moment, but he snaps out of it when he hears walking around, he looks around and saw the adult ponies except for Slimeball surround him, he realized Archaeologist was controlling them telepathically, he slams his front right hoof onto the ground and the adult ponies run to Gunslinger. The adult ponies run to attack Gunslinger, but he runs back and jumps and lands on a house's roof, much to Archaeologist's shock,
"Get him!" Archaeologist said as he held his front left hoof out and pointed his right claw, the adult Pegasi fly after him, Gunslinger jumps off of the house's roof and hides under it while the adult Pegasi fly past him, he sneaks back home and hides under the houses and goes around the corners of them to avoid detection, he had his shotgun ready just in case, he sneaks out of town and heads to his house while the mind controlled adult ponies look for him. Gunslinger arrives to his home and opens the door quietly, he enters and closes the door quietly, he then locks it slowly and rearranges the couch to barricade it,
"Stay in here." Gunslinger whispered,
"What's wrong, Gunslinger?" a blue filly asked,
"Keep your voice down, Archaeologist is not a pony, he was disguised as one." Gunslinger whispered,
"You mean, Archaeologist is a changeling?" a yellow colt whispered, Gunslinger shook his head,
"Something else." Gunslinger whispered,
"What is he?" an orange colt whispered,
"Don't know, but eats ponies." Gunslinger whispered, the foals gasp and were about to scream in fear, but Gunslinger places his own front right hoof over his own mouth to quiet them down,
"Keep your voices down, and stay down with me." Gunslinger whispered, the foals nod while Gunslinger crawled around to get his other guns and went back to the front of the door. Gunslinger guards the front door while he looks through the windows to his sides, he was wondering about the red wagon that was outside in the woods, he hears coins clanging behind him and saw the foals giving their bits to Gunslinger so he can build an orphanage, he looks back and stands up while aiming his rifle, he puts it on his back with his one hoofed shotgun and two hoofed shotgun, he had holsters on his sides for his pistols,
"I'll be back." Gunslinger whispered, and he goes out again. Gunslinger sneaks around and goes around the town with the mind controlled adult ponies, he goes around the left side of the town and heads into the woods, he hears Archaeologist laughing manically and his voice echoed through the woods, he hears flying in the air and saw him flying down, he opens his mouth with the intention to bite him, Gunslinger jumps and rolls to his right while taking the pistol on his left side out. Gunslinger aims the pistol with both of his hoofs and pulls the trigger with his front left hoof, he fires a few shots from the pistol at Archaeologist while he flew in the air, he turns around and shoots white fluid out of his mouth at high speeds, Gunslinger jumps back and the fluid hits the ground and melts it, Gunslinger realized it was acid. Archaeologist shoots more acid out of his mouth and Gunslinger ran around and did several rolls and somersaults to get behind trees faster to avoid the acid, he fired his pistol whenever he had an opening but the bullets kept missing, he fires one and finally hits Archaeologist, but it bounces off of his body, Gunslinger realized his pistol bullets were too weak to harm him.
Gunslinger runs away into the woods and Archaeologist flies up higher to look for him, he did not see him, so he leaves. Gunslinger comes out from behind a tree and saw Archaeologist was gone, so he jumps up onto a tree branch and saw the red wagon was still in the same area, he saw the blue wagon was also nearby, Gunslinger sheathes his pistol and jumps from tree branch to tree branch and he climbs down when the blue wagon was under him. Gunslinger looks at the blue wagon and saw it was closed, but he takes his two hoofed shotgun off of his back and fires a few shots into it and destroys it, he shot all four wheels off as well, he hears Archaeologist eating loudly in the woods and a colt screaming, he realized what was going on and he jumps back into the trees and goes from branch to branch. Gunslinger arrives at the red wagon and listens inside, he heard whimpering, he tightens the harness around himself and begins to run. Gunslinger begins to run and he hears Archaeologist scream with rage, Gunslinger looks over his right shoulder and saw Archaeologist flying to him,
"COME BACK HERE WITH MY FOOD!!" Archaeologist yelled angrily, and Gunslinger continues running. Gunslinger runs through the woods to his home while the ground was bumpy, he hears screaming in the wagon, he keeps running and looks over his own right shoulder, he saw Archaeologist was flying after him, he also hears running up ahead and saw the adult ponies from the town coming as well, Gunslinger runs to his right to avoid them, he sees fallen trees on the ground and he jumps over them, he hears more screams inside the wagon while the wagon hit the ground hard, he also heard thuds inside the wagon,
"AFTER HIM!!" Archaeologist yelled angrily, and Gunslinger hears the adult ponies running after him, he sees shrubs up ahead and he ducks his head to avoid them, he soon enters mud and keeps running, the wheels on the red wagon get dirty and the ground gets bumpy again, the screams resume and Gunslinger hears thuds in the wagon again, he soon hears the running get quieter, Gunslinger realizes he has lost the adult ponies after him, he keeps running home and he saw his house up ahead, he arrives at home,
"It's Gunslinger." a filly said from inside, and he hears the couch blocking the front door being moved and the door opens, he sees the foals waiting for him, he arrives and then parks the wagon. Gunslinger looks for the door and finds it again, he saw it was locked, he saw he had the door facing to the town, so he puts the wagon back on and turns it around, he grabs the door with his front hoofs and pulls with all of his strength to pry the door open, and he got it open on the third try, he pants and saw there were many foals in the red wagon, they cover their eyes' from the light outside. The foals' eyes' readjust to the light and they look out the door, they see Gunslinger and many foals behind him, they become surprised,
"Get in." Gunslinger said, and they do, Gunslinger puts the wagon back on and moves it far away, he bucks it with his hind legs and destroys it, he goes back home, enters it, closes and locks the door, and barricades it with his couch. The foals from the red wagon stay down with the others while Gunslinger looked at them,
"Comfortable?" Gunslinger whispered, the foals from the red wagon nod,
"What happened to you guys?" a sky blue colt asked,
"Archaeologist came to our town acting as an entertainer, he did a horror show, he met our parents afterwards, but after that, our parents began to act strange, and they took us to Archaeologist against our wills, he put us in that red wagon for who knows how long, he's been eating us as food." a purple filly from the red wagon replied, greatly scaring the foals from the town,
"Who are you?" a red filly from the red wagon asked,
"Gunslinger, I am trying to raise bits to build an orphanage." Gunslinger replied, the foals from the red wagon smile,
"Wait? Gunslinger?! As in, the criminal?!" an orange colt from the red wagon asked, the other foals look at him with confusion,
"I don't live that life anymore." Gunslinger replied, the foals become shocked at the fact that Gunslinger admitted it was true,
"You should be in jail, I know what you, Templar, Gladiator, Spartan, Zulu, and Bushido did, you all operated outside of Equestria, you all are robbers, you stole valuables from the dragons, yaks, griffons, changelings, hippogriffs, and kirins, you six also killed whoever got in your ways." the orange colt from the red wagon said, the other foals gasp,
"They are in jail, Princess Celestia let me go because she saw the potential that I could reform." Gunslinger replied,
"How?" the orange colt from the red wagon asked,
"I was the lowest ranking member of the gang and an enforcer, I obeyed without question, and had no role in the planning of the robberies we committed, so I was let go." Gunslinger replied,
"Why did you follow them for, Gunslinger?" a red-orange filly from the town asked,
"Loyalty, they were my childhood friends." Gunslinger replied,
"Were they loyal back to you?" a purple colt from the town asked, Gunslinger nodded,
"Why do you want to build an orphanage for now?" the orange colt from the red wagon asked,
"Always liked kids." Gunslinger replied,
"Any other reasons?" a gray colt from the red wagon asked,
"Archer." Gunslinger replied,
"What?" the gray colt asked,
"Relative that I care for also likes small creatures, me doing this is something she would want." Gunslinger replied, the foals smile. Gunslinger gets down on his abdomen while taking out his one hoofed shotgun, he watched for Archaeologist and he did not come,
"I'll be back." Gunslinger whispered, and he left the home. Gunslinger sneaks out and saw Slimeball watching him, he ignored it for sometime and went to the town to look for information, he was looking for posters of Trixie in hopes of finding her again and buying fireworks from her again to make improvised explosives, he hides behind the houses to avoid the adult ponies, he goes to one house that he knew were fans of Trixie, he saw her poster on the wall as well, he uses the butt of his two hoofed shotgun to press again the window pane out, he puts the two hoofed shotgun back on his back with his rifle and one hoofed shotgun while he picked up the window pane and set it to the side. Gunslinger crawls on the floor to avoid being spotted by the adult ponies, he looks at the poster and saw her next show was all the way in Baltimare, which was too far, he looks around the home to see if he could use anything as a weapon against Archaeologist, he saw firework props in the house, so he took them, he carried them in his front hoofs and carried them out carefully. Gunslinger heads home and balances himself on his hind hoofs while he walked, which was pretty easy for him to do,
"They're in that house over there." Gunslinger overheard Slimeball say, he hears glass breaking and foals screaming, Gunslinger realized what was going on and put the fireworks down and ran to his home, he saw Slimeball walking to his store with bits in his saddlebag. Gunslinger runs home and saw Archaeologist flying at his house's windows and was hitting them with his hind hoofs in an attempt to break them, he scratched them with his claws as well, the foals screamed in fear. Gunslinger takes his two pistols out of their sheathes and holds them in his front hoofs, he opens fire and shoots both pistols at Archaeologist, the bullets bounce off of his body and he looks back with an angry face. Archaeologist flies to him while screeching, his mouth opens wide with the intention of eating Gunslinger whole, he does a back flip and jumps over Archaeologist, but his two shotguns and rifle fall onto the ground, he quickly puts them back on his back and fires at Archaeologist as he turns around in midair. Archaeologist looks at Gunslinger while smiling menacingly, he flies to him and his head splits in half vertically, pink tentacles with yellow teeth come out and they stretch out in an attempt to eat Gunslinger, the foals become scared as they watch Gunslinger jump around and fire bullets at Archaeologist, he aims his one hoofed shotgun in his front left hoof and fires at the tentacles, they get destroyed and Archaeologist's head fixes itself. Archaeologist opens his mouth and acid falls onto the ground and melts it, Gunslinger jumps back while he puts his one hoofed shotgun back on his back and takes his two pistols out, he fires his pistols at Archaeologist, he flies around to dodge the bullets and laughs manically as he flies to Gunslinger. Archaeologist flies to Gunslinger and tries to slash him with the claws on his front legs, but Gunslinger dodges them all easily, he did not touch Archaeologist because he did not look safe to touch, he dodges one slash from Archaeologist's front left hoof by ducking, he fires a pistol bullet into Archaeologist's right eye, he screams and holds his eye with his front right hoof and flies away.
Gunslinger enters his house and saw the foals were scared,
"Everyone alright?" Gunslinger asked, the foals nod, he looks around and sees the money he was raising to build an orphanage was gone, he quickly looks back and realized Slimeball stole the money and told Archaeologist where the foals were, he turns back,
"Anypony know how to tie a constrictor knot?" Gunslinger asked, the foals shake their heads, Gunslinger gets a strap off of one of his holsters and shows the foals how to make one, Gunslinger put the knot down,
"Rope." Gunslinger said, confusing the foals,
"We need it." Gunslinger said,
"For what?" a blue colt from the town asked,
"Tie up the adult ponies with that knot." Gunslinger replied,
"Oh." the foals said,
"There's plenty in my home, my parents use it for their jobs." a yellow filly from the town said,
"Let's go." Gunslinger replied, and the two leave. Gunslinger and the filly go through the town and Gunslinger led, the two hide and the filly pointed out where her house was at, the two sneak in with Gunslinger slowly pushing out a window pane and setting it aside, they get the rope and get out the house, Gunslinger puts the window pane back in place and Gunslinger leads the way sneaking out of the town, almost getting caught in the process.
Gunslinger and the filly enter and Gunslinger measures the ropes, he pulls them apart at where he thought the length was long enough to restrain an adult pony,
"What happened to our parents anyway?" a green colt from the town asked,
"We don't know how, but Archaeologist is mind controlling them." a black colt from the red wagon replied, shocking the foals from the town,
"How are we going to win, Gunslinger? They're bigger and stronger than us, and scarier, we can't tie them up." a pink filly from the town said,
"I already have a plan, I will lure them while you all hide, when I give the signal, you all attack. This is the signal." Gunslinger replied as he held his front right leg up, the foals took note,
"Tackle the ponies down from their blind spots and behind them, not the front, there's more of you than of them, so overwhelm them." Gunslinger said, the foals nod,
"Let's go." Gunslinger said, and they exit. Gunslinger leads the foals and holds his front left leg out,
"Half of you, hide behind the houses on that side." Gunslinger said, and they go, he puts his leg down and holds his front right leg out,
"The other half, over there." Gunslinger said, and they do, Gunslinger then walks to the center of the town. Gunslinger arrives and claps his front hoofs, the adult ponies go to him and see him,
"Ha-ha, you made this too easy, Gunslinger." a red mare said,
"Yes, you'll make a good meal, since you get in the way too much of my main meals." a purple stallion said, and they all walk forward slowly while they smiled menacingly with their mouths watering, Gunslinger realized Archaeologist was trying to scare him. The ponies all surround him and he saw the foals hiding behind the houses, the adult ponies surround him and Gunslinger holds his front right leg up as the signal and the foals run, the adult ponies become were quickly tackled down by the numerous foals from behind and they tie constrictor knots with the ropes onto the adult ponies' hoofs,
"NO!! THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE MY FOOD!!" a red stallion yelled,
"Any leftover rope?" Gunslinger asked, the foals showed him several,
"Tie the ropes in their mouths so they don't try to bite you." Gunslinger said, and they did, tying constrictor knots with those as well, Gunslinger then proceeded to hit the adult ponies on the sides of their necks with his front hoofs to knock them out,
"Excuse me a minute." Gunslinger said, and he went back to his house to get his guns, he then entered Slimeball's store,
"Ah, you finally decided to come buy something, Gunslinger." Slimeball said,
"The brass instruments." Gunslinger said, and Slimeball puts the trumpets on the counter in front of him,
"They're top quality, good for music." Slimeball said, Gunslinger can tell the brass was very cheap quality,
"The lumber wood." Gunslinger said, and Slimeball put it out,
"Now, those are good, you can build almost anything you want, anything else?" Slimeball asked,
"The salt." Gunslinger said, and he puts it on the counter,
"What else?" Slimeball asked,
"The charcoal." Gunslinger said, and Slimeball puts it on the counter,
"What else?" Slimeball asked,
"The sulfur." Gunslinger said, and Slimeball gives him a package,
"Don't inhale too much, what else, Gunslinger?" Slimeball asked,
"The lead." Gunslinger said, and Slimeball puts the lead weights on the counter,
"Those are good for working out, what will it be, Gunslinger?" Slimeball asked,
"All." Gunslinger replied,
"*chuckle* I'll be closing early today so..." Slimeball said, he continues to speak while Gunslinger takes the candy he stole from the candy shop and held his two hoofed shotgun in his front right hoof in case Slimeball caught him, he takes the candy back and Slimeball sees him out of the corner of his left eye for a brief second,
"Hey! You have to pay for that!" Slimeball said as he quickly turned to Gunslinger and pointed at the candy with his front right hoof,
"Wrong." Gunslinger replied as he aimed his two hoofed shotgun with both of his hoofs, Slimeball looks at it with fear and Gunslinger fires a bullet into his head and kills him. Gunslinger takes the things Slimeball put on the counter and tries to make more bullets, even though it will be cheap quality and possibly not fire, he was still willing to try, and made them in case he runs out of his original bullets, he makes the bullets and puts them in his saddlebags, which were dark blue with the clip to close them being the shape of revolvers, he also improvises with the fireworks he got from the house and makes them into explosives, he exits with his saddlebags and his guns and left to go hunt down Archaeologist. Gunslinger looks around and sees the town was mostly empty now, he hears grumbling in the sky,
"Can't believe he took my food source, I'll just have to eat back at home." Archaeologist grumbled, Gunslinger looks to his left and saw him flying away, Gunslinger runs after him. Gunslinger runs to the west and saw nothing but grassland, he follows Archaeologist but was careful to stay behind him so he was not spotted or heard, Gunslinger follows him and runs slowly and quietly, he goes west and soon saw Archaeologist turn to his right, so did Gunslinger, he goes north and saw it was getting dark, Gunslinger follows Archaeologist for about ten minutes and arrives at an abandoned carnival. Gunslinger walks forward slowly and it was night time, he jumps onto a tree branch and looks, he saw foal skeletons laying around the carnival,
"Archaeologist, you're back." a mare said,
"Leave me alone, keep an eye on the foals, I'll eat one later." Archaeologist replied,
"Why do we have to be locked up in here?" a colt asked,
"Because you're a kid, and we hate kids." a stallion replied,
"But I'm your son." the colt said,
"Still hate kids, having you was mom's idea in the first place." the stallion replied, Gunslinger looks around and sees adult ponies patrolling the carnival, and foals locked behind iron bars, some of them were scared, Gunslinger also looks and sees the adult ponies did not have dark gold eyes, they were various colors, he realized they were acting on their own free will instead of being mind controlled. Gunslinger jumps down and walks to the entrance of the carnival. Gunslinger walks forward and several adult ponies look at him,
"Here to help...?" a Pegasus mare asked, Gunslinger stood on his hind legs and took out his pistols with his front hoofs, he opens fire and begins shooting the adult ponies, the adult ponies helping Archaeologist run to where they hear the noise and see Gunslinger shooting the adult ponies, the unicorns use telekinesis on him but he shoots them with his pistols, he lands on his feet and shoots his pistols more at the adult ponies coming to attack him, he hears the foals screaming in fear from the loudness of the gunshots. Gunslinger shoots and fires at the ponies who came to attack him first, he shot the unicorns first since they had magic and could take his guns away from him. Earth ponies kick boulders at him and hit him several times, but Gunslinger did not flinch, he continues to fire and Gunslinger noticed his pistols were almost out of bullets, but the ponies there working for Archaeologist was little since most adult ponies liked children.
Gunslinger runs behind a tent and reloads his pistols with the bullets he made from Slimeball's materials, he hears running and takes an improvised firework from his saddlebag, he holds it in his front left hoof and throws it around the corner of the tent to his left, it hits the ground and explodes on impact, he hears several yelps and foals screaming in fear. Gunslinger continues to walk forward and shot anypony who stood in his way, he always shot the unicorns first, then the Pegasi, and the earth ponies last, some stood still in shock at his weapons, Gunslinger realized most of them have never seen a gun before, Gunslinger continues firing and Slimeball's cheap quality material were actually working, he soon throws another improvised firework and it explodes, the adult ponies within the blast range scream when they were hit, he keeps walking and saw an earth pony kick a boulder and it hits Gunslinger right on the top of his head, but he did not flinch and kept coming forward, greatly shocking the ponies,
"No way!" a male earth pony said, Gunslinger used the opportunity to gun them down and did not see anymore adult ponies.
Gunslinger walks forward and sees Archaeologist up ahead, he growled with anger and opened his mouth while screaming with rage, he shoots acid out of the three tentacles that made up his tongue and Gunslinger jumped back, he fires his pistols and they jam after a few shots, the bullets bounced off of Archaeologist, he puts the pistols away while Archaeologist flies down to him and tries to bite him, he jumps over him and turns around while in midair, he takes the rifle of his back after putting his pistols in their holsters and fires at Archaeologist. Gunslinger fires the rifle and Archaeologist flies around to dodge them, he noticed Archaeologist was beginning to panic and was flying into things around the carnival, he ripped some of the tents and they fell, Gunslinger saw the foals in the jails, he noticed some of them recognized him,
"Gunslinger!" a rose colored filly said,
"No way, so he is still around after all." a turquoise colt said,
"Who is he?" a yellow-orange colt asked, and some of them explain who he was. Gunslinger continues to fire and Archaeologist kept flying around to dodge the bullets, Gunslinger stopped firing and Archaeologist laughs manically as he flies to Gunslinger and opens his mouth wide to eat his head, Gunslinger fires the rifle into his mouth and Archaeologist screams in pain, he groans with rage as he flew back,
"You tricked me!" Archaeologist said angrily,
"Your fault." Gunslinger replied calmly and stoically,
"I lost my food source because of you!" Archaeologist said angrily,
"Should've ate them as soon as you got them." Gunslinger replied,
"Foals are tastier when they're scared." Archaeologist said,
"Why do you eat kids?" Gunslinger asked,
"Because I have to eat meat to survive." Archaeologist replied,
"Then eat what's already dead." Gunslinger said,
"Those taste terrible, I find ponies to be the tastiest." Archaeologist replied,
"Why children?" Gunslinger asked,
"Because they're easy prey." Archaeologist replied with a big smile on his face, the foals become scared while Gunslinger readied his rifle. Archaeologist flies to Gunslinger and he fires his rifle at him several times, Archaeologist shot acid out of the three tentacles in his mouth at the rides around the carnivals, they melt the metal and begin to fall, Gunslinger notices them and runs and jumps around to dodge some of them, he does a back flip while jumping back to dodge the falling debris, Archaeologist watches with shock until debris falls onto Gunslinger,
"NO!!" a filly said, Archaeologist laughs triumphantly,
"Time to eat." Archaeologist said, and he approaches a jail cell while the foals whimper with fear. A banging sound was heard and it startles Archaeologist, some of the debris is thrown into the air and Gunslinger emerges from the rubble, shocking the foals who did not know him and Archaeologist. Gunslinger fires his rifle at Archaeologist and the bullets did not do much, Archaeologist flies towards Gunslinger and flies up, he tries to grab Gunslinger with the claws on his hind hoofs and Gunslinger ducks to dodge them, he puts the rifle on his back and takes out his two hoofed shotgun, Archaeologist pants heavily and had an expression of anger and exhaustion, he flies away and Gunslinger runs after him, Archaeologist looks back and saw Gunslinger was a really fast runner, faster than some of the animals, Archaeologist looks on with fear and flies away faster while Gunslinger gives chase.
Archaeologist flies to where the most tents were at and he looks back, he saw Gunslinger jump and land on a tent's roof, he runs across it and jumps onto the next tent's roof, he runs across it and jumps onto the next tent's roof, then the next, then the next, then the next, Archaeologist watched with shock at what Gunslinger could do. Archaeologist flies away and Gunslinger continues giving chase, he keeps flying while Gunslinger runs faster and jumps from one roof to another, he was soon under Archaeologist and throws a firework at him, it explodes on impact when it hits him, Archaeologist screams in pain and falls. Gunslinger jumps down and runs to Archaeologist, who was groaning in pain, Gunslinger realized that Archaeologist was weak to explosives, he sees Gunslinger coming and he shoots acid out of his mouth again and Gunslinger strafes left to dodge them, he fires his two hoofed shotgun and shoots the tentacles, Archaeologist screeches in pain with the tentacles fall onto the ground. Gunslinger realized his two hoofed shotgun was out of ammo, so he put it on his back and took out his one hoofed shotgun and held it in his front right hoof, Archaeologist flies up and towards Gunslinger, he holds his tail up and tries to stab Gunslinger, but he shoots it with his shotgun and the tip falls off, Archaeologist falls onto the ground in pain, he looks at Gunslinger with fear and tries to fly away, Gunslinger shoots him in his right wing and he screams and falls, Gunslinger quickly reloads his shotgun and then shoots the left wing, Archaeologist screamed in pain from that as well, Gunslinger holds his rifle in his front left hoof and shoots Archaeologist in his knees of all four of his legs, he screams and Gunslinger puts the rifle back on his back.
Archaeologist whimpers with fear at seeing what Gunslinger could do, he sees Gunslinger stand on his hind legs and sees him aiming the one hoofed double barreled sawed off shotgun at his head, he held it in his front right hoof and his body was turned to the left with his head facing Archaeologist, and his front left hoof to his side,
"I don't understand, I know of your gang, you're the lowest ranking member and just an enforcer!" Archaeologist said,
"Celestia made the same mistake." Gunslinger replied,
"What?" Archaeologist asked,
"I may have been lowest ranking member, but I was the most competent and most dangerous member." Gunslinger replied, Archaeologist looks at him with horror, he sees Gunslinger pulling the trigger slowly,
"No! NO!!" Archaeologist said, and Gunslinger pulls the trigger and blows his head off, Archaeologist falls over and completely disintegrates, leaving no trace of himself behind. Gunslinger walks around while he heard the foals cheer, he kept his guard up in case somepony was hiding and waiting to attack him, he explores the carnival to find anymore prisoners, he found another prison of foals, he pulls the iron doors from their hinges and they break, the foals run out,
"Hold on." Gunslinger said, and he walks around, he finds an office and saw a photo that caught his mind, he two ponies in it, the one to the left was Archaeologist, and the one to the right was a female pony, also a Pegasus, Archaeologist was smiling while the female pony had a stoic and bored face, Gunslinger puts it down and leaves, he moves his front right hoof forward to tell the foals to follow him and they do. Gunslinger leads the foals to his home and they see many more foals, he saw the ones from the town crying,
"What's wrong?" Gunslinger asked,
"Our parents disappeared." a yellow filly from the town replied, Gunslinger realized destroying Archaeologist did not free the adult ponies, it made them die with him, Gunslinger lets the foals stay at his home even though there was not enough space for all of them,
"What now, Gunslinger?" a blue filly from the red wagon asked,
"Raise money, build orphanage." Gunslinger replied, the foals from the carnival became excited,
"First, rest." Gunslinger said, the foals smile and they all sleep. Morning comes and Gunslinger got all the bits from the town, Slimeball's store had the most, it was still not enough money, so Gunslinger got buckets and gave them to the Pegasi foals,
"Spread the word." Gunslinger said, and they fly around. Gunslinger buries Slimeball far away from the town and then heads home and meditates while he waits, the other foals were impatient, some were grossed out by how untidy Gunslinger's home was, they see the Pegasi foals come back with a lot of bits, the foals were excited while Gunslinger opened his eyes, they arrive home with bits and the foals cheer, Gunslinger takes all of the bits he had and saw he had enough, so he left. Gunslinger travels around looking for lumber to buy and found one after a while, he buys them and heads home with a wagon full of them, he saw roof shingles,
"My dad had leftover from fixing the house the last time it got destroyed." a white colt from the town said, Gunslinger looks and saw it was enough,
"Let's get building." Gunslinger said, and they all begin. Gunslinger and the earth ponies carry the heavy materials while the unicorns used their magic on the tools, and Pegasi flew around to put up the support beams and the shingles on the roof, they all work for hours every day and build the orphanage, they were making it a part of Gunslinger's home, he gave the foals the pizza he had in his house, which they liked, they all work for about eighteen days and finish the orphanage, the foals cheered while Gunslinger just looked on stoically,
"What now, Gunslinger?" a blue filly from the carnival asked,
"Put up fliers around Equestria, list the grand opening and looking for ponies to work here." Gunslinger replied, and the foals make the poster, Gunslinger saw it was colorful and highly decorative, but he did not mind it, each foal made each poster by hoof, so each poster felt special to the foals, the Pegasi fly around Equestria and put them up everywhere. Two days pass and many ponies have arrived to work at the orphanage, much to the delight of the foals, they look and saw Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Princess Cadence were there as well, Princess Luna was already with the foals,
"Oh, you're such a good foal, yes you are." Princess Luna said as she rubbed her snout against the colt in front of Gunslinger,
"Hello there, you look happy, I brought candy for every foal." Princess Cadence said,
"Yay!" the foals said as they run to her, she gives out candy to the foals. Gunslinger watches and he saw Princess Celestia walk to him,
"I'm proud of you, Gunslinger, I saw the potential for you to reform, and you did, I'm also here to assure you that Templar, Spartan, Gladiator, Zulu, and Bushido are doing well." Princess Celestia said, Gunslinger just looked on, and he saw Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Applejack have arrived to the orphanage's opening as well,
"I brought books for everypony to read." Twilight Sparkle said, they all trot to her and she shows them the book,
"You're awesome. You're awesome. You're awesome..." Rainbow Dash said as she pointed to each foal,
"Oh, you all look so happy, come here, you." Fluttershy said, and she hugs the foals and rubs her snout on them,
"Grand opening party!" Pinkie Pie said as she shot her party cannon,
"Yay!" the foals said, and they all party while Gunslinger walked around stoically and quietly, he looked around at his surroundings,
"Wow, he's a quiet one." Applejack said,
"Yes, he hasn't said anything." Fluttershy replied,
"Who is he?" Twilight Sparkle asked,
"Oh, that's Gunslinger, he's always been one of few words." Princess Celestia replied,
"Over here, darlings, I got outfits." Rarity said, and the foals run to her, she shows them the outfits and try them on, Applejack also gave out apple desserts to the foals, they all have fun,
"Well, let's get these books in." Twilight Sparkle said, and they all see the inside of the orphanage, Pinkie Pie and Rarity scream with shock, the orphanage had paperwork for Gunslinger's candy store job by the couch he sits on, there was also candy wrappers on the floor, pizza boxes on the floor, along with slices of pizza that foals stepped on when moving in and out of the house while building the orphanage, empty bottles of water and energy drinks were littered across the floor, empty orange pill bottles of muscle supplements, and flies, spiders, and cockroaches crawling across the floor. The people who arrived at the grand opening were shocked,
"What is this?" Twilight Sparkle asked,
"Um, this is the orphanage." a yellow-green filly replied,
"There is no way they can live in this, this is disgustin'." Applejack said,
"What do you kids say?" Gunslinger asked,
"It's fine." a red-orange colt replied, they agreed,
"No! No, no, no, it is not fine, ponies are going to be living here and working here, it must be cleaned, and what is this outside? It's all brown and made from wood, and the roof is just regular pale red shingles, this can use some decorations." Rarity said, the others agreed,
"Well, let's get cleanin'." Applejack said, and they do, they also had the foals paint the walls of the orphanage while Twilight Sparkle put books in, Rainbow Dash brought Wonderbolt material, Fluttershy brought board games, Pinkie Pie brought candy, Rarity brought clothes, and Applejack brought recipes involving apples,
"Okay, it's done." Twilight Sparkle said, and they all look and thought it looked much better,
"I wish you all good luck, and a good time." Princess Celestia said, and they leave, the ponies who wanted to work remained there,
"Work starts tomorrow." Gunslinger said, and they all sleep at the orphanage. Gunslinger wakes up the next morning and began working at the candy store again, with ponies from outside the town coming in to buy candy.
Doctor Whooves and Gunslinger sat across from one another,
"That's all." Gunslinger said,
"When did this happen?" Doctor Whooves asked,
"Just after Twilight Sparkle first encountered Starlight Glimmer." Gunslinger replied,
"Ah, I wasn't doing this job yet at that time." Doctor Whooves said, Gunslinger shook his head,
"You didn't talk much compared to my other patients." Doctor Whooves said,
"Your point?" Gunslinger asked,
"Don't you want to talk more about your tale?" Doctor Whooves asked,
"Like what?" Gunslinger asked,
"Your feelings of the situation." Doctor Whooves replied,
"My feelings are irrelevant." Gunslinger said,
"What about how Archaeologist mind controls the ponies?" Doctor Whooves asked,
"Not interested." Gunslinger replied,
"I still find your tale hard to believe." Doctor Whooves said,
"Look for news about missing ponies in small towns, I think you'll find it." Gunslinger replied,
"Are you traumatized by your experiences?" Doctor Whooves asked, Gunslinger shakes his head,
"Then why come here?" Doctor Whooves asked,
"Thought I'd let you know." Gunslinger replied,
"I see." Doctor Whooves said, Gunslinger just watched,
"Are you sure you don't want to talk about anything else?" Doctor Whooves asked, Gunslinger nods,
"Okay, price is ten bits." Doctor Whooves replied, and Gunslinger pays him and leaves. Gunslinger went back to the orphanage and the foals greet him, so did the ponies working there, he waves at them and went to go continue selling candy at the store.
Doctor Whooves goes through the newspapers of Equestria and found several papers of small towns where everypony went missing, and some mentioning seeing a pony carrying a red wagon and a blue wagon, those who talked to him said his name was Archaeologist, and he was at every town before the ponies disappeared. Doctor Whooves saw Gunslinger was actually right, which shocked him a bit, but he looks at the entrance of his house, unable to shake off the feeling that Gunslinger was lying in several parts of his story.