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// Genocide and Love 
// Story: What the Hell Happen to Equestria? 
// by Spectrum Paxion 
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Vinyl was crouched next to poking me awake. I woke to see her see her one of my cigarette in her mouth, it was already about half burnt to the bud. "Get up" She said still poking me as if I was asleep. I stood up and grabbed her hand to help her up. I take the cigarette from her mouth and told her "You shouldn't smoke it can kill you." I then put it in my mouth and took a long draw. 

"God you such a hypocrite." She replied.

"No i'm not, if anything is going to kill me it isn't going to be smoking. It will be a bullet the head or a knife in the heart. Plus I thought you loved my hypocritical and sarcastic nature." I said with a smirk.

"Ahhh... Goddamn it." She sighed.

"I'm sorry." I said knowing the error that I made. I opened my arms to allow forgiveness. She accepted the gesture and returned it. We went to go get the others "I went to get Derpy and Whooves again due to the fact that Octavia was still a bitch in the morning. I went up and knocked. The door opened almost immediately. I them "Wow you didn't take your sweetass time."

Whooves replied "Well I didn't want to owe you two." While Derpy looked as happy as ever just smiling as if she had a constant injection of love and kindness, it was kinda weird how happy she was, but thats love for y'all. We set off on a productive day of genocide of the runners. We had a setup that was able to get us the most bloodshed. 

Vinyl was on top of a three story building bipod down and scope dialed in. Whooves was going to be on the outer ring making sure that they didn't overrun us or were able to run away. Me, Derpy, and Octavia were going to be close to the attack we were each other's backs. Just before we were starting the massacre I took out the one of the five cigarettes left in he pack this gave me four remaining. I light it and had a long draw that was shorted by a 7.62mm breaking off about a cm. and putting it out. I looked at the glare of Vinyl's scope and simply shake my head. I was able to relight it for about a second till another cm. was taken off. I know that she would keep this up until I ran out. This time when I light it I was facing the direction of her and the barrel. I shrugged at her. I let her decide wether I died from smoking or a bullet. I knew that smoking wouldn't kill me, but a bullet to the chest, high plausibility, I felt she knew this as well. 

Dr. Whooves went on a search for a group of runners, it didn't take him but two minutes. A group of ten were in full force after him. Soon after the sight I saw three drop a second later three bangs blasted the air signaling bullets fired. After the rally of bullets she couldn't do much else in the killing department. Two continued to chase Whooves, the other five turned and charged at us. We unloaded a mix of about two hands full of 9mm and several slugs into the ravaged infected. I looked over to the one that Octavia was peppering, it looked like she firing red paintballs into its chest, the red fluid splattered off the body. Derpy still had a smile, but not due to kindness and love, but hate and evilness that comes from the mass destruction of others. I understood that joy more then love, but I learned later I was wrong. Whooves took down one of the two with a couple good placed shots in the chest. The other was taken down by three shots to the knee and upper thigh, it toppled over then the barrel was jammed down the throat. Four bullets were fired, but one was only needed.

After the small battle Derpy went to Whooves to make sure he was ok and spend time with him. I walked off to Vinyl's spider nest to check on her. I got there after about three minutes of slowly walking, I climbed up a ladder to reach the top of the building. She was there waiting on the roof lying down, she jumped up to give me a strong hug and a kiss on the cheek. After she thought that she come on a little strong, she released me and apologized "Sorry about that.. I.. just.. uh.."

"Don't worry I understand." I told her.

"You do?" She questioned.

"Yeah, you like all of that love shit." I said in a sarcastic tone and a light smirk. I already started to open my arms to forgiveness to my joke, but she just sighed and told me "Your right." I looked at her with a confused face, dropped my arms to my sides and I asked  "What?"

"I do love you." She said meekly with a shy smile. 

"Well...." I was cut short by her lips. Her arms were wrapped around my neck, I was close enough to notice the smell of vanilla that was around her. We were together for what seemed like an eternity, but time flies when you are with those who you love. After a few minutes we untied are lips to see each other smiling about the moment that had just taken place. Vinyl spoke up "So.. now that you know.. is that a yes?"

"Yes. Of course." I replied. "I love you as well." After a final kiss I left to run back to everyone. They were sitting down telling stories and jokes, it really showed me that even if the world around us was ruined if the people we cared about and loved  were ok. I started to explain myself for taking so long, Whooves gave me a stare and held up a zero with his hand, he was telling me that he had taken care of it and he owes me nothing now. We had time to kill another group of about 4-5 people before night would fall over Equestria. We found a six around a house that was half collapsed in itself. I popped a couple slugs into two, a ton of 9mm were lodged in three corpse thanks to Derpy and Octavia, the last two were filled with 5.62mm from a Dr.'s Ar-15.

Night was fast approaching I quickly went to see if Vinyl had set off for home. I reached the roof to see no sign of her. On the roof was a chalk line that was drawn with a piece of concrete. It read "Went home see you soon." I rejoined with everyone but Vinyl, we walked to be met at the house by Vinyl. We did the normal night preparation that had become part of life. Afterwards we retreated to our rooms, but Vinyl was lying on the floor around were I normally slept.  

"Do you mind if I sleep here tonight?" Vinyl asked.

"Sure just a moment." I replied. I walked over to the sofa that she had slept before now. I took off the cushions that revealed the base of the sofa. It brought the sofa cushions to where she was and laid them down. "Here you go. I don't want you to have to sleep on the floor." I told her. She laid on the makeshift bed, I was next to her on the floor. She was running her fingers though my hair, as the moonlight now hit her and not the floor. We shared one last moment I flowed into my slumber.