Title: Maybe discarded story. Author: White_light Pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/xmuJaB8w First Edit: Sunday 6th of December 2015 05:29:31 PM CDT Last Edit: Sunday 6th of December 2015 05:29:31 PM CDT the group, out of sheer steel balls and excessive good will, had eventually interfered and helped enough to passively cause bit of a stir of the status quo of the wasteland earning numerous both strong enemies and allies. The slavers and raider gangs hated how much of a pest they had become, as ponies from all over the equestrian wasteland, seeing a strong party who genuinely protected settlement charging very little, and an example to follow, had grown to want to join in their endeavours. Effectively becoming a large contingent of builders and vigilante with actual influence on what happened in Equestria. After this point they were no longer a small group of good willed, passionate ponies with an above average moral compass, now, they were an army of good willed and passionate ponies, with an ideal and a full fledged HQ fortress near the outskirts of Baltimare. All of this was almost a decade ago, at the peak of their strenght they could almost rival Red Eye's might. However, this group no longer exists anymore. They fought hard and long, but they were just too early... Without the spark of the light bringer, there was very little a company of heroes could do for so long. At one point,  Every selfish faction had quarrels with the Gearheads, the bounties, assassins and the causalties became so high that they had to fall back on the defensive very quickly,  Talons paired with slavers became heavily involved in their downfall, once Steel Rangers had taken over the Fortress and comunication was interupted for good the wasteland took its time picking apart the scattered remants of the Gearheads until very few remained, Ash was the lucky number 6 who had outlasted almost everyone, he was the lucky number 6, and during an trading expedition to New Appleoosa he was heavily injured alongside several of his comrades, his left cutie mark was cut off as proof of his demise before being kicked off a ledge,  and falling in a Manehattan reactor pit of taint and radiation and only by stroke of luck did he avoid dying from the fall itself, instead being paralized by it to rot along with the corpses of his old friends, As if to add insult to injury he later live again as a ghoul... without leaders a base and now few surviving original members, the Gearheads simply disbanded, each and everyone trotting their own paths to flee the bounty hunters.  Ash himelf was fatally injured along by mercenaries during an expedition to New Appleloosa Rivalry between gangers and slavers was very strong, especially at their 'peak' when they found themselves with a proper old fortress as an HQ, a royal  All of the leaders and their members had a sizeable bounty on their heads ... Once the Talons began to show up it had already become quite the task to wander  it didn't take long for the Talons to being taking their chances with them.