Year: ????
To be honest, i don't have a clue of where the hell we are. One minute i was riding with Javier looking for John, and the next i'm some kind of horse-thing.
At least the rest of gang also followed me here, wherever we are. Miss Grimshaw and Mister Pearson has maneged to set up a temporary camp for us to sleep and eat. And to make things better, Micah is nowhere to be seen. Maybe getting placed here was a stroke of luck.
Hopefully, good things are coming. We need that after Blackwater.
"Come on everyone, gather round." said Dutch, interrupting Arthur's journal writing. Everyone on camp droped what they were doing to listen to what Dutch had to say.
"Now, i know that we find ourselves in an... unusual situation." said Dutch, pausing to find the right word "But we will make sense of this."
"And i think everyone can agree when i say that it is a relief that we haven't lost anyone." said Dutch, with everyone agreeing "Well, apart from Micah."
"So not a huge loss then?" said Lenny, jokingly making everyone laugh. Lenny was now a unicorn with a brown coat and black hair. He was wearing a white undershirt, dark blue vest, grey jacket, black pants and boots.
"Anyway." said Dutch "We need to find ourselves a town where we can buy supplies. Tents, food, ammunition and such." said Dutch.
"Hosea, John and Sean, you stay behind to watch over the camp." said Dutch "We don't know what could be out here."
"Of course." said Hosea.
"Sure." said John.
"Aye Aye captain." said Sean, half jokingly.
"Arthur, Javier, Lenny, Charles, and Bill, you boys follow me to look for a town." said Dutch "And Bill?"
"Yeah?" asked Bill.
Bill Williamson was a Us Army veteran who had been dishonorably discharged on the grounds of deviancy. He later joined the Van Der Linde gang after trying to rob Dutch while drunk. He was now a fat earth pony with a lightly red coat and brown mane and big beard. He was wearing a white undershirt, green flannel shirt, brown overcoat, grey pants and black boots. With a beige infantry hardee hat to top it off.
"Try not get us in trouble." said Dutch.
"Do you have to remind me everytime we go into a town?" asked Bill.
"Well, you're the one that keeps on getting us into trouble." said Charles. "With your temper and all."
Charles Smith is one the guns in the gang. Born to a African American father and Native American mother, he ran away at a young age when his father became an alcoholic. He ran into the gang after many years of living in the wild and decided to join. He was now a pegasus with a light brown coat and black mane. He was wearing a blue shirt with white dots, Native American style necklace, brown pants and black boots. The sleeves on his shirt were also cuffed up.
"Shut your trap Charles, or do i have to do it myself." said Bill.
"If you're not lazy enough to get off your ass first." said Arthur.
"Gentlemen, we have a town to find, remember?" said Dutch, getting the groups attention.
"Alright Dutch, let's find this town of yours shall we?" said Arthur. And with that the group went on their way.
After 2 hours, the group still hadn't found an end to the forest. To the group, it felt like the forest was endless, with no town in sight.
"Dutch i think this town that your where talking about doesn't exist." said Arthur.
"Don't say that." said Dutch "Let's keep looking until we find something."
The group kept on looking. Until...
"I think i found the end!" said Lenny, pointing to a point where the trees stopped.
"Good job Lenny. I just might not shoot you." joked Arthur.
"Shut up old man and let's see what we can find." said Lenny.
The group walked out of the forrest to see a town. The town in question consisted mainly of timber-framed houses with thatched roofs. The exceptions where a town hall in the town squere, a train station, a bell tower and most surprisingly, a huge crystal castle that the group could see from the other side of town. They looked at a sign near the town that said 'Ponyville'. To the relief of the group, the residents of Ponyville consisted of earth ponies, pegasi and unicorns.
"What the hell kinda name is 'Ponyville' anyway?" asked Arthur.
"Well, it is a town consisting of horses or in this case ponies." said Charles.
"Well, at least we won't scare'em of with our looks." said Dutch.
The group headed into town, where they got a lot of look from other ponies. It was not everyday a group of 6 tough looking stallions, armed to the teeth walked into town. Some of them where surprised, some didn't care and most of them where scared.
"You have any idea where we're going, Dutch?" asked Arthur.
"Not a clue." said Dutch.
"Maybe you should try asking someone." said Javier. He was now a earth pony with a light brown coat and black mane and mustache. He was wearing a white undershirt with a red tie, grey waistcoat, blue jacket, black trousers and boots and a black bowler hat.
"Alright, let's ask this pink one over here." said Dutch, walking over to a mare with a pink coat and pink mane. She was wearing a sleeveless white shirt with blue outlining and a 3 ballon symbol on the front. On top of this she had a three layered skirt with 3 different colors of pink, white thigh-highs, blue and pink sandles and a blue ribbon in here hair.
"Excuse me Miss, could you maybe tell us-" tried Dutch, but was cut of by the pink mare turning around, gasping loudly and running away.
"Maybe it's the guns." said Arthur.
"Don't mind her." said another voice. The group turned to see who was talking. It was a lavender mare with both wings and horn. Her mane was dark indigo with stripes of purple and pink. She was wearing some kind of school unifrom, consisting of a white shirt, pinkish red vest, purple flannel skirt and purple boots.
"Do you know her Miss?" asked Dutch.
"You could say that." said the mare, giggling "My name is Twilight Sparkle."
The group had to suppress laughter, trying desperately not to burst out at what they thought was a ridiculous name.
"What's so funny?" asked Twilight.
"Nothing, Miss." said Charles "Just some old joke."
"Alright..." said Twilight "What's your name?"
"Name's Dutch Van Der Linde, and this is Arthur, Javier, Lenny, Bill and Charles." said Dutch, pointing at each respective member of the gang.
"Nice to meet you all." said Twilight.
"Can say the same thing to you Miss." said Arthur.
"You don't mind answering a few questions Miss Sparkle?" asked Dutch.
"Sure, what do you want to know." said Twilight.
"Do you perhaps have a map?" asked Dutch "We're quite unfamiliar with the land."
"Sure, here" said Twilight handing the group a map.
The group of outlaws were stunned. The land that they now found themselves in was quite vast, and had large variety of different ecosystems. From small towns and big cities, to sandy deserts and snow covered mountains, it had pretty much everything.
"Why, thank you Miss." said Dutch.
"No problem." said Twilight.
"Could you also give us directions to a gunsmith and a general store if possible?" asked Dutch "We need food and supplies."
"Sure." said Twilight "Both stores are at the other end of town, the general store to the right and the gunsmith to the left."
"Thank you Miss Sparkle." said Dutch.
"Just make sure to have the bits for it." said Twilight.
The whole group cringed slightly, having forgotten the fact that they didn't have any money, at least money that worked in this world.
"About that, we're not really flush with coin right now." said Dutch "So if you could generously lend us some money, we'll happily pay you back later."
"Alright, here are some bits for you to use." said Twilight, handing Dutch a bag of bits "It looks like you boys could use it."
"Thank you so much Miss Sparkle." said Arthur.
"Please, just call me Twilight." said Twilight.
"Alright." said Arthur.
"Anyway thank you for everything Miss Twilight." said Dutch "We'll pay you back as soon as we have the money."
"No need to." said Twilight "Call it a gift from a princess."
"In any way, thank you Miss Twilight." said Dutch.
"No Problem." said Twilight "If you need anything else just look for me at the castle of friendship." said Twilight, pointing at the huge crystal palace across town.
"You live there?!" asked Lenny, shocked.
"Yes i do." said Twilight "Can i ask you all a question?"
"Of course, go right ahead." said Dutch.
"Where are all from?" asked Twilight.
The group paniked slightly. They knew they couldn't exactly just say that they came from another world filled with humans. Thinking quickly, Dutch took out the map and pointed at a town in a desert south of Ponyville.
"We travelled from here." said Dutch.
"You travelled from Klugetown?!" asked Twilight, concerned "But that town is big trouble!"
"Nothing that we can't handle Miss." said Arthur.
"That would explain the weapons." said Twilight "Anyway, hope to see you all around."
"Yeah, us too." said Dutch.
"Bye!" said Twilight.
"Goodbye." said Dutch.
After their conversation, the group of outlaws started to walk to the other side of town to get the supplies they needed. They where all very impressed by the generosity of the stranger named Twilight.
"Well, wasn't that mighty generous of her?" said Arthur.
"Do you actually think she's a princess like she said?" asked Javier, curiously.
"I don't know." said Lenny "I mean she wasn't dressed like one."
After about 5 minutes of walking, the group had the stores in their sights.
"Alright, Lenny, Charles and Javier, you go take the general store." said Dutch "Myself, Arthur and Bill will take the gunsmith."
Charles, Javier and Lenny all nodded their heads in agreement as they splitted the money and seperated into the rest of the group.
Dutch, Arthur and Bill were now standing outside of a quaint little building with a sign that said 'Ponyville Gunsmith' on it. As they walked in, they saw a unicorn. He had a light green coat and dark green hair with a stylized mustache. He was wearing a grey plaid shirt, grey pants, black suspenders and a black bowler hat to top it all off. He was standing behind a glass desk filled with the latest and greatest weaponry on offer. Behind him was a cabinet filled with diffrent kind of rifles, rom bolt action to repeaters to shotguns.
"Ah, welcome gentlecolts to my most humble store." said the unicorn "My name is Sharp Shoot. What can i do for you all today?"
"We would like to fill up on some ammunition." said Dutch.
"Ah ha, alright." said Sharp Shoot "Which calibers do you need?"
"Uh, i don't know if you have our type of bullets here." said Arthur.
"Can i take a look at your weapons so i can find something suitable?" asked Sharp Shoot.
"Yeah, sure." said Arthur, handing over his revolver and repeater.
"Hmm..." said Sharp Shoot, inspecting the rifle and gun "The markings of the weapons are not familiar to me. Are these custom made?"
"Yeah, sure." said Dutch.
"From what i can gather, the revolver is chambered in .45 Colt and the repeater in .45-75 Winneighster." said Sharp Shoot.
Dutch, Bill and Arthur had to surpress laughs for the second time that day because of the name 'Winneighster'.
"What's so funny?" asked Sharp Shoot.
"Oh, nothing." said Arthur "Just old memories."
"Oh Alright." said Sharp Shoot "Say, could one of you gentlecolts try out shooting your weapons to see if the calibers work?"
"Sure, i'll try out." said Bill "What should i shoot?"
"let me just hang up a target real quick." said Sharp Shoot, walking swiftly from behind the counter to set up a dart board on the wall. Then he loaded Arthurs revolver with a bullet and handed it to Bill.
"Now, you just aim at the target and-" tried Sharp Shoot but instead got cut off my Bill.
"I know how this works!" said Bill, confidently "Now you boys watch and learn from an Army veteran."
Bill aimed his weapon at the target and fired. But instead of hitting like he suspected, the bullet missed and instead hit one of the windows of the shop. Arthur and Dutch immediately started laughing hard.
"Yeah, you're a real expert shooter alright." said Dutch, still laughing
"Yeah, you couldn't hit the broadside of a barn with your aim." said Arthur, also still laughing.
"Shut up." said Bill, annoyed "If you two are so high and mighty, why don't you have a go?"
"Sure." said Arthur, still slightly laughing. Sharp Shoot handed him another bullet and Arthur loaded it in. He aimed and shoot true to target, hitting a bullseye.
"Well, atleast we know there's nothing wrong with the gun." said Sharp Shoot "Let's try the repeater."
Sharp Shoot handed Arthur his repeater, now loaded with a bullet. He aimed it at the target and hit another bullseye, this time leaving a bigger hole in the dart board.
"Well, now that we know that the calibers are working well, how much do you gentlecolts wanna buy?" asked Sharp Shoot.
"Enough for nine peo- ponies i mean." said Dutch, almost slipping his tounge.
"Sure, i think 6 dozen boxes each should be good to start with." said Sharp Shoot.
"Alright." said Dutch. Sharp Shoot rang him up for 6 dozen boxes of each ammo, and Dutch payed.
"And remember gentlecolts, if you need your more ammunition, new weapons or your guns cleaned, you come to me." said Sharp Shoot.
"We'll make sure to remember that. Take care." said Dutch, the group leaving the store. Dutch, Arthur and Bill went outside just in time to meet Javier, Charles and Lenny leaving the general store.
"Gentlemen, do we have everything?" asked Dutch.
"We got the tents, food, table and chairs." said Charles "We where looking to buy new bandanas cause it looks like everyone is missing theirs but they didn't have them."
"But the shop owner told us if we wanted clothes, we should look for the 'Carousel Boutique'." said Javier
"Then what are we doing here?" asked Dutch "Let's go gentlemen."