Whilst Corvo was searching ponyville for clues to his targets whereabouts a dark mist was falling towards Manehattan, the ponies in alleys and on roof tops stared at the mist in a mix of fear and awe, that was intill it smashed into an old abandoned building were awe disappeared.
A man lay on the floor of an old and crumbling building, this man was clad in a reddish brown leather coat and had large leather gloves on his hands, his hair was put back and his face looked to be aging. As this man was sleeping the world started to slow down and a dark mist appeared in the air then another man with black eyes came out of the smoke and floated above the man by now time had completely stopped. "Wake up, Daud." The Outsider said.
"Gurrgh" the man in the floor groaned looking up "what do you want?"
The Outsider smirked "I have a job for you, Daud," the Outsider began,"what do you say to killing three gods for me."
"Do I even have a choice in the matter?" Asked the ex-assassin.
"Not at all," the Outsider replied,"and by the way your in a land full of multicoloured ponies, and Corvo's here." He said just before disappearing into the same black mist that brought him here.
"What? What does he mean 'ponies'? And what does he mean Corvos here?" As Daud said this the door down stairs broke and he thought he heard a voice say.
"Okay, guardsmen it landed in here, search the building, check everything. We don't know what this thing is, so be prepared. Understood?" Said what Daud guessed was a commanding officer of so kind.
"Sir, yes, sir!" Multiple voices shouted, some of which sounded feminine.
'Well, looks like a good time to leave' Daud thought to himself as he blinked onto a neerby book case.
Golden blade had been having a good day for the most part, he'd been able to go out with his family for lunch and was able to go see his friends in the trading district of the city. And then a giant black meteorite thing had to fall out the sky and crash into the old silver tooth mansion.
The building had been here since the city was nothing more then a small town, which was about three hundred years ago and had been left vacant for about sixty to eighty years and no one in the city wanted to go in let alone renovate it, the reason for this was that is was supposedly haunted by the last generation of the silver tooth family, who had all died at the dinner table from being poisoned by a maid. A motive for the crime was never found so it was just seen as a brutal case of mass murder, twenty seven lives silenced in an instant.
But right now ghosts were the least of his problems as he walked through the halls with the bane of his existence, Saber Fire. By no means was the kid a pony who he hated, he was just so annoying.
"So, Golden how's your day been?" Asked Saber.
"Good," was Golden Swords reply.
"OK cool, so err... how're the kids? Doing alright in school?"
"They're doing fine." Was the flat reply.
That's when Saber stopped trying to make small talk and decided to shut the hell up, well it seemed like he decided to any way what really happened was that Saber was currently being strangled by a bipedal assassin.
After hearing a thud from behind him Golden turned to see Saber lying on the floor next to a tall bipedal creature which was covered completely in clothes apart from its face which had a large scar running down the side of its face, as he was taking all this in it raised its arm and a green dart shot out and his whole world went black.
Daud stood over the two unconscious horses in front of him, they looked like military horses the the only diffence being the one he'd choked out had wings.
"What the fuck has the Outsider gotten me into?" Daud questioned himself.
Luna was in a very strange place right now. The reason why she found it strange was because of how empty it was, aside from some ckuncks of canterlot dotted around its abyss, which seemed to go on forever.
She was scared to say the least.
"Where are we?!" Luna questioned the void around her, not expecting a response.
So imagine her shock when she got one. "Well 'princess', your in my domain, the void." A distinctly masculine voice said, as the darkness around here condensed into a body. When the darkness finally finished making the body a tall bipedal creature floated above her, its black eyes piercing into her very being and a small but noticeable smirk on its face," and you have no power here."
"What art thou?!" She asked, going into old Equestrian.
"Well, fair maiden, I am but a humble creature, who only seeks to watch the lives of others who I deem entertaining," He said, bathing his words in sarcasm," but seriously, you interest me quite a bit."
"What do you mean, whoever you are?" Luna questioned the eternity old being.
This seemed to only make the creatures smirk a little bigger," well you see, luna I know about your little secret shall we say, and said secret has made you a very interesting pony, or should I say Nightmare. And my true name would kill you if you heard it, so just call me Outsider, everyone does."
Luna's eyes widened a little as her little "secret" was revealed" how do you know about that, Outsider."
"Well I watch everything so I know everyone's secrets." He said.
"So what do you want to do with this new information?" She asked the strange being.
"Well, all I want is to offer you a deal." The Outsider said with a smirk, "a deal that will make you the most powerful creature in the whole of Equs and have both your sister and Discord dead on the floor."
Now this got Nightmares attention, she would finally get to be the queen she deserved to be and her idiotic sister and that idiot Discord would be dead, but there's always a catch, "what do you want in return?"
"All I want is for the lunar guard to give two human assassin's free passage, and for then to be the ones to kill your sister and Discord. So what do you say?"
All she had to do is give two assassins free passage to her sister and Discord so they could kill them, and in return she would get to be the only ruler of her nation and no one would be able to stop her, it was too good to be true. But it was true, "how could I say no." She said with a slight smile.
"Then it is settled, have a good sleep, Nightmare." And with that everything faded to black.