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// Desolation 
// Story: Saros 
// by shortskirtsandexplosions 
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    Something glittered in the center of an ashen pile of dust.  A brown hoof reached down and twisted its horseshoe, extending a metal blade.  The dagger dug through the pale sediment, picking and poking at the powdery substance until the source of the reflective light was pulled to the surface.

Gently, an armored pony raised a dangling piece of jewelry up to her veiled face.  Cold vapors billowed out from her mask.  With nimble wing feathers, she reached forward and raised her goggles.  Squinting scarlet pupils studied the shiny figures of an owl and a bat made out of pristine nickel.  After a few seconds, the pony lowered her goggles.  She reached back and opened a pouch along her thick leather saddlebag.  Swiftly, she dropped the tiny figures into a pocket full of similar metal debris rattling within.

"Mmmmfff," she grunted into the frigid winds.  "Can never have enough friggin' bullets..."

Swiveling around, the last pony trotted across a snowy field littered with craters of fallen moonrocks.  She made her way across a gray wasteland, heading directly towards an anchored zeppelin that drifted in the snowy wind, and the endless gray desolation of Equestria billowing beyond.








Saros





by shortskirtsandexplosions

Special thanks to:  RazgrizS57, theBrianJ, and Props