Max ran as fast as her legs would carry her, pulling her pistol out of her holster as the ran and accidentally firing it into the dirt. She got a proper grip on the pistol and levitated it as steady as she could, turning around to check Ace was still with her.
he was and was taking aim at the timberwolves he fired once and the timberwolf closest to them burst into flames
Max stared. Why didn't her gun do that!? She fired a few rounds at the perusing timberwolves, and actually managed to hit one. She cheered briefly, then turned back around, to see where they were heading. To her surprise, they were nearly at the outskirts of the town. She ran ahead and tried the door of the first building she came to, and to her surprise, found it unlocked. She held the door open and yelled to Ace.
Ace fired again He was taking his time cause he only had 4 of the incendiary bullets He then doove into the building after max
Max slammed the door closed behind him, and blocked it with a wardrobe. "Are you okay?" She asked, helping Ace up after he'd dived through the door.
"I'm okay. This place should be safe," She said, looking around, still grasping her pistol with her magic. "But we'd better check it, just to be sure..."
Together they checked the house, room by room, until they were happy it was secure. Max gathered what edible food still remained, and set about making something they could eat as they sat in in the sitting room, where they had decided to make their camp for the night.
ace was getting theyre bedding ready as she made the food "so....can you awnser my question now?" he asked refuring to the question he asked about why she was out here alone
Max looked at him for a few seconds before answering. "I'll tell you why I'm out here alone, as long as you promise not to ask any more questions on the subject," She offered.
ace sat there thinking "only if it dosent come up again" he said he knew if it did his curiosity would get the best of him, like it would anypony else "but i will try to avoid the topic"
"They were all killed. Killed by cowardice and self-interest..." She shook her head and looked back down at the food she was preparing "It doesn't matter; all it means is I can't go back there, so now I have to find a new home." She wasn't lying exactly, but truthfully, she was starting to doubt there was anywhere in this wasteland she could call home, or that she'd deserve to live there if there was...
Ace sat there of a moment in the quite and dark thinking "Well I'm glad you left" he told her "Other wise my head would still be open and I'd be dead" he smiled at her
She smiled back a little, and passed him a bowl of canned soup she'd managed to heat up. "Well, while I'm not exactly glad you got hit over the head, if you hadn't, I'd probably have died too; without your help, those ponies would have killed me whilst I was still trying to get my gun to fire." She had to laugh a little; now that it wasn't putting her life in danger, her incompetence did seem quite amusing.
ace laughed a little too after a few bites and some moments of silence he looked at her again "can i see your gun?"
"Uh... sure." She put her own soup down and floated the pistol over to him. She figured If he'd wanted to rob her, he would have done it by now anyway...
