"Dammit" Sharpshooter cursed as his body landed on the hardwood floor of Spark's office. He then looked around the room to see his captor drinking coffee on his chair. "Worst Monday ever" he sighed as he forced him self off the unusually comfortable floor.
Spark then casually looked around the room and saw him forcing himself off the floor. "Oh, I completely forgot to tell you my name is Spark Nighthoof I'm your new boss!" his captor said with a nasty grin as he extended his hoof towards Sharpshooter which he regrettably stood up and shook. "Now that I know your ready I have a new job for you." After those words came out Spark's mouth his blood ran cold. "Their is a royal guard in Canterlot, goes by the name of Sgt.Hardhoof he has the plans to our new route and I need you to take him out."
"And what if I don't?" He said but could nearly predict the answer to the question.
"My surveillance team would be keeping an eye on you most of the time so if you tried to escape you would be chased down and killed." Spark had an unreadable expression but by the way he looked at him he knew he was serious. "Now if you would could kindly leave my office the folder with all the required information for the job is at the table by the door." As he began to slowly walk out Spark said "oh, and your equipment is out back so you should probably take that if you don't want to die easily."
As Sharpshooter came out of the office he received a few snickers from the guards since they where calling him boss's slave Which infuriated him to no end. He quickly grabbed his equipment and ran out the door. He began to walk outside and looked at his surroundings the gentle breeze pushed his mane back as the bright yellow sun blinded his eyes through the green trees. "Now what does this damn pony want me to do." He said as he opened up the folder and flipped through it's contents. It was mostly personal information of his target wife,hobbies,etc but the last file contained his nearly exact location. "CANTERLOT CASTLE!?" He yelled after he read where his target would be he became less confident about his chance of survival. "Welp" he sighed "guess i'm gonna have to catch a train".
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Sharpshooter was able to reach the nearest town he knew that contained a train station in a fairly short amount of time. The town was named hoofington, it was a small town with a few shops and houses, it had the same look as most towns except the only difference is that it had a train station. Sharpshooter was bored since he had found out the train would arrive in an hour. After ten minutes of searching for something to do he found an ice cream shop near the station he then looked at his bits and then focused his attention back to the shop "It's always time for ice cream." he said as his stomach growled.
Sharpshooter began eating his ice cream but all the ponies where staring at him since he was eating it so quickly it looked like he needed it to live. He didn't mind though because he had just figured out the train would leave twenty minutes early and he only had a few minutes left so he could be on time. "Excuse me sir sorry to disturb you but you need to pay for that before you leave." Said the waitress pony as she curiously inspected him shoving his ice cream down his throat. He quickly glanced at the clock on the wall and heard the sound of a train starting to move.
"Sorry gotta go bye!" He said as he threw his payment in a random direction and quickly flashed towards the door ramming it open and he ran into pedestrians trying to get himself to the now moving train. As he got closer and closer he began to prepare his legs for a jump towards the railing on the back of the train. After a few seconds of him trying to catch up with the train he finally decided to launch himself which worked but he received a welcoming bonk from the railing against his head which nearly made him fall off. When he walked in he was heavily panting and soaked in his sweat "I, never want to do that again." He exclaimed as he slowly took his seat next to a mare who was intensely staring at him. "What are you looking at" Sharpshooter said in a non serious voice.
"Sorry" she said as she turned her head in the other direction. After a few hours of staring out at the boring forests through the window Sharpshooter decided to go to sleep.
When he woke up he looked around to see that the mare was gone. "Well guess I better take the chance to look at my equipment while no body is looking." He said as he opened up the bag Spark had given him. The first thing he had pulled out was a shiny dagger that looked brand new "guess Spark wanted me to take out an important target if he gave me this." He then proceeded to take out a map, throwing knives, a rope, and a poison dart with an iron tip which had truly impressed him. "Damn son where did you find this." He said with a smile stuffing it in his backpack as Canterlot slowly appeared through the thick fog which had formed after he had woken up.
His train had finally came to a halt in Canterlot station, he began to pick up his things and trotted outside looking at his surroundings he noticed that the city was very wealthy with posh ponies walking all around and buildings with diamonds strapped to them. When he had finally reached the inner city he began to notice ponies giving him strange looks but he didn't mind because he knew it was the middle of summer. He began to think about how to get in the castle, he knew that if he tried to go to through the entrance he would be stopped by guards and the windows where to high to reach without wings, so he had decided to enter a nearby inn and sleep till night when most guards would be asleep.
When he walked in the inn the lobby became eerily quiet as all the ponies in the room had focused their attention on him. Unlike the other ponies the owner was a friendly colt and decided to actually speak. "Hello their sir do you need anything for today?." He asked in a calm manner.
"Yes, do you have any rooms I could stay in?" Sharpshooter asked the owner.
"Oh yes we have an unoccupied room to your the left." He then grabbed one of the keys that was in a dresser and handed it to him. "It will be fifteen bits for a day and night.
Sharpshooter quickly grabbed the keys and walked towards his room before things get even more awkward. After he laid himself on the room's bed he began to think about how he would survive his next hit.
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"Hey sir why did you send that pony out there to kill that royal guard if the Insurrection would stop the attack anyway?" One of Spark's men asked him.
"It is all part of my plan you will see." Spark said as he took another sip of his coffee.