Psycho
Chapter Seven
The train pulled up to the station. Desert lands spanned across the planet. Four vault hunters watched as the hyperion train slowed to a stop. Three of them boarded leaving one young woman. The train was supposed to pick up five, not four. Someone was missing. She looked down at the ground and saw a man in a mask laying on the ground just by the train.
"What the hell, is that a psycho?"
-Two Hours Earlier-
"Ugh... face it buddy, we are LOST! I think we passed this same Stactus three times!" Gaige complained as she rode up top Krieg's shoulders.
He had been leading so to speak, and despite Gaige's prodding at going the wrong direction he just kept going. Behind the two of them lay a single set of footprints in the sand along with many ruined buildings. One of which they used to camp in the night before. Krieg had an uneasy feeling about him though, like they were being followed. His constant turning probably the reason they have been walking in circles. He could't shake the feeling. Something was wrong.
"Hey... do you hear something?" Gaige asked, listening to a hum from over the sand mound behind them.
"Grinding metal... Twisted steel and burning rubber..." Krieg rambled.
"Uh... yes... something like that..." Gaige said as she climbed down from Kriegs back.
As her feet hit the ground, she shouldered her mini-gun. It was sitting at half a clip from a previous encounter with bandits, she made it a habit never to reload her clips. Especially when she had so much data in her Anarchy processor. She had devilish plans for whatever was trying to get the jump on them. The humming got louder and lounder, Gaige turned the direction it was coming from and raised her gun. She pulled out the clip from her gun and tossed it aside, pulling out a fresh new clip and snapping it into the gun. Her Anarchy processor started churning in her modded lunchbox, and streamed a line of data right into her gun. Rotating the barrel, she unloaded the gun right as two bandit technicals ramped up the mound. The massive fire rate of her Vladof Mini-gun combined with the Discord unit she installed unleashed a storm of bullets into the first technical, erupting it into a corrosive mess of melting metal and sludge. The second technical rammed into Krieg flipping him onto the hood of the vehicle. It sped on with the psycho still on the hood. Gaige ran after, but knowing she wouldnt catch up, she slowed to a walk and followed the tracks left behind. It had to stop eventually... right?
The train slowed to a stop, and the six ponies and human were just waking up. Krieg was flipped on his back and Rainbow was sprawled on his chest, belly up and wings stretched. Krieg leaned up and rolled Rainbow off him onto the bed. Her tongue lolled out of her mouth as she too opened her eyes. She crawled off the bed and stretched her legs and wings, and felt a large hand pet her matted mane again. She released a purr sounding moan and giggled.
"You sir are my new cuddle buddy" Rainbow smiled as she lazily walked away.
"Soft pony... cuddle... buddy..." Krieg smiled behind the mask.
Moments later, the six ponies stepped off the train and Krieg with them. His eyes widened as he gazed upon the castle. His stare was matched by the ponies boarding the train, all of them eyeing him suspiciously. He was used to people staring, psychos are not generally accepted as part of a normal society. He towered over every pony he saw, and the castle was still big to him. Good, maybe they had a decent size couch, he thought.
"Alright everypony, just straight to the castle. No incidents, no problems." Twilight nervously stated.
"Yes... right through the most Glorious city known to ponykind... with this human everyone suspects to be a wild animal... what could go wrong..." Rarity scoffed, knowing if any finer ponies saw her, it would hurt her reputation.
"You mean we just go through, do nothing, and get out? But I haven't thrown Krieg a party yet!" Pinkie whined.
"Don't worry sugar, we will throw him the biggest party we can. After Clestia gets what she needs from him." Applejack commented.
The six ponies began walking into the city, Krieg right behind them.
The marauder in the back seat was attempting to put a bullet in Krieg's head but the psycho just kept rolling around on the hood. The bandit driving attempted to swerve and curve but Krieg held fast. A midget psycho even tried to charge Krieg but was swiftly chucked off the vehicle on a sharp turn. Krieg was about to slip though. The technical had a lot of places to grip but the speed and swiftness of the turns jerked him around too much to keep hold, with the additional gunfire trying to split his skull with a bullet. His loose hand found a round object on his belt, he must have picked it up a while go if he forgot about it this long. He pulled it up and smashed it into the hood of the technical, then let go. The vehicle bumped on a train track and sent the now loose Krieg in the air. The technical full of bandits, save the midget who was thrown off, went under him and off into the distance before breaking. Krieg landed on the ground with a thud, then stood up to swipe the dust off his pants. The following explosion didn't even phase a badass like him, the spare wheel rolling passed him burning. Krieg set off on the train tracks, headed towards the station now in sight.