Sunny Knight: a Pony's Tale

by TheothersideofSunny968

Dark Deals

The ride up to the Iron Lock prison was one Alister actually found some what relaxing. He rode atop the iron carriage pulled by a team of stallions and mares who trained in this harsh weather. While the team pulled the steal carriage, Alister focused his magic around it as well as them. A small force field to protect them slightly from the cold. The spell also helped the unicorn guard to remain mentally sharp and prepared for the worst.

The prisoner that they captured this time was a big time mob boss, Al Ca'pony. Wanted throughout all Equestria, having his hooves in almost every crooked bit of business you could imagine. From counterfeit trading cards to robbery of the royal reserves. Alister had aided the detectives on his case some time back. But not long after the trail hot hot for the Ca'pony case, was Alister asked to deal with the incident of the meteor. But once the fiend was caught, Alister insisted that he be the one to lock him away in his fringed new home. The sentance was a life long one without parol, and the thought of Al Ca'pony spending the rest of his life locked up in a cold metal box put a smile on Alister's face.

Once the team pulling the metal carriage arrived at the front gates, Alister hopped off the top and approached the two sentries out front. After receiving a salute from them and returning one, they opened the front gates. Alister happily trotted beside the carriage, eager to see the drained look on Ca'pony's face when he sees the light of Celestia's day once more. Alister knew all too well what it was like to be locked in that dark carriage even for a short time. Two more guards checked all around the carriage while another pair unhooked the pullers and lead them inside to get some rest, something warm to drink and a hot meal. Alister was offered the same, but quickly turned it down.

"Always a pony of business before pleasure" Snowstorm said, a smile on his face as he walked up to Alister. The black coated unicorn wore a pair of goggles over his eyes and a scarf across his neck.

"Business is my pleasure" Alister said as he shot his old pal a smile. "What's with the get up? You never struck me for one sensitive to the cold."

"You try living up here as long as I have. Trust me, you don't get used to it" Snowstorm held his hoof out for a hoof bump, to which, Alister met. "I heard you would be coming. But why with this guy?"

"I was as assigned to his case a while back" Alister said, his smile fading as it always did when it came to work. "But I'll brief you later. I'll relax once this criminal is behind bars."

The two guards remained on both sides of the latched door. Snowstorm casually and calmly walked up to the hatch and began spinning it around. Once the latch clicked, the dark coated unicorn flung the door open. A stallion in chains sat in the center of the carriage in a meditating position sitting back on his haunches.

"What? We there already?" The crime boss's voice was gruff and thick, like really cheep coffee from a failing dinner. "I was just beginning to enjoy myself."

"If you like this, you'll love your new home away from home" Alister spat, more then a little venom in his words. He sensed he was enjoying this moment a little too much and pulled back a little. "Get up, it's time to put you in your cage."

The stallion in chains stood up and emerged from the carriage. He had on the stripped jump suit that all the prisoners wore, but also had his hooves chained together as a precaution. A long scar ran down his left cheek, just beside a pair of violet colored eyes. His red colored coat combined with a black died mane and tail made him threatening in deed, and made up for the soft look in his eyes. The eyes lied. There was not big soft thing about this thug. If anypony outside cell block G deserved to be here, it was defiantly him.

"Alister, is that anyway to treat a fellow pony?" Al asked, sarcasm thickly coating every word.

"Why don't you ask all the ponies, who's lived you shattered, that?" Alister snapped.

"Still picking up the prices, eh? Well that's business for ya" Al Ca'pony chuckled. "But I've had a long trip. How about we get some grub and settle in for the night?"

"Oh! Darn shame" Snowstorm smiled, eyes still hidden by the goggles. "You know, the mess hall is closed for the day. But I'll have a guard drop some slop by your room, ok?"

"Well, aren't we a generous group?" Was the last thing Capony chuckled. Four guards, including Alister and Snowstorm, brought Ca'pony down to cell block F, where a special cell was waiting just for him.

After locking the door of Ca'Pony's cell and placing a special spell on the bars, Alister and Snowstorm walked back over to the elevator, ready to go warm up by the fire before Alister's decent down the mountain.

"Oh! I almost forgot!" Snowstorm had just entered the elevator when he paused and turned to Alister. "Would you mind taking a look at cell block G's magical restraints?"

"Did they try and escape again?" Alister's tone was worried but solid as stone.

"I think Cynical might have, but Salted's been sleeping for the most part, I believe" Snowstorm replied, his goggles reflecting Alister's image in them as he stared back at his fellow guard.

The grey, unicorn guard paused, thinking and contemplating. Something bothered him. Something didn't feel right. But he just smiled as he turned back and nodded at his college. "Let's go. Last thing we need is those two out."

"Just what I was thinking" Snowstorm said with a half smile as he walked with Alister down the hall of cell block F to the elevator that would eventually bring them to cell block G.

As the two entered the elevator and began their decent, they remained silent. Alister then began to take subtle note of Snowstom's appearance. He let his mane and tail grow out slightly, which was uncharacteristic of him. The Snowstorm he knew would never let his personal grooming get out of hoof. Also, the goggles he wore were much too thin for snow goggles. Taking a better look at them, they appeared to be more or less suited for just style rather then function. That and the only place he could have gotten them and the scarf would be from the storage unit where they put all the items belonging to the inmates. Snowstorm would never touch something that wasn't his, not the Snowstorm Alister knew anyway. Now that he thought about it thou, Alister began thinking about how

much Snowstorm had gone through in the past couple of years after the academy. Ponies sometimes change. And being confined up here might make them change dramatically. Thinking of that, Alister wrote it all off as his paranoia. He would have to remember to take his afternoon potion earlier today to suppress it. Paranoia feeds fear.

As the doors opened and the two unicorns began walking down the hallway to the next elevator that would bring them right to cell block G, Snowstorm paused and turned to Alister. "Hey buddy, I'm really sorry."

The grey unicorn was confused, turning to his college, Alister asked "sorry? Sorry about what?"

"About... THIS!" Before Alister could react, Snowstorm shot a magical blast of black bubbling light at him.

Alister was in a drowning aura of black magic! Something Alister had never experienced before. It made him feel like all the air around him became thin, made his muscles tense and lock up, and worse, blacken his vision. The horrid feeling wouldn't last long. Alister was always one to think in his hooves, and did his best to find a way out of the darkness. After just a few moments of sprinting, was able to emerge from a black cloud that engulfed him. Coughing heavily, Alister tried his best to shake it off a sickening feeling he had as he peered over at Snowstorm.

"What... What is the meaning... Of... This?!" Alister tried to focus and summon his magical aura, but something was blocking it. He couldn't see it, but black crystals coated his horn and were disrupting his magical flow.

"I'm sorry it had to come to this..." Snowstorm said as he pulled the scarf off his neck, tossing it aside, the goggles soon fallowed. Opening both eyes slowly and turning to Alister, Snowstorm's smile grew, revealing two rows of sharp teeth. His red and green eyes, now fully open, we're looking down at his former ally. "But it's part of our little deal we made."

"Deal?" Alister was still trying to catch his breath and figure out what exactly was going on. "What deal?! With who?!"

Snowstorm didn't have to answer that. Just as Alister finished his sentence, his eyes adjusted to the darkness of the poorly lit prison. He was able to see the outline of two ponies standing on either side of the dark coated unicorn. For a movement, Alister began to panic, his heart rate climbing dangerously high as he looked at Snowstorm's newest companions.

"Well well well, lookie what we have here!" A taunting voice began to echo as a grey pegusus stepped out of the shadows. "Why, if it isn't our old playmate, Charming Knight!"

The second shadow emerged, a large brown earth pony, chains and shackles dangling from his front hooves. His burnin red eyes seemed to pierce the darkness and homed in on the grey unicorn.

"He prefers to go by Alister now" Snowstorm said as he began walking back to the elevator.

"Oh a rose by any other name would still burn all the same!" Cynical chuckled. "Hey! That was good! Maybe I should be a writer too! I'll talk to the narrator about it!"

Salted growled low at the comment, growing annoyed at his companion and all his 'narrator' and 'writer' talk. Making their lives sound like no more then words on a page of paper.

"You kids have fun" Snowstorm said as he clicked the 'up' button. "I'll be back in a bit."

"Snowstorm!" Alister called out, his muzzle showing an expression it hadn't in a long time, desperation. "Why are you doing this?! SNOWSTORM!!!"

But Snowstorm only smiled as the elevator's doors closed and took him up to the next layer above them.

"Remember how you locked us away all those years ago, Charming?" Cynical said as he fanned out his wings, revealing that he had acquired a new toy. Gloves on his wings that held sharp knives making his wings appear to be claws. The deviant pegasus smiled as he flashed the blades around with every motion of his wings. "You left us to rot here?!"

Salted also began stepping forward, now striking the ground with his chains like a whip with every step, eyes locked on Alister. He growled louder as he ground his teeth together.

"My sentiments exactly" Cynical smiled, at his cohort before turning back to the grey unicorn who was now standing, trying his best to prepare for the inevitable fight. "It's play time!"

After ascending through the remaining cell blocks, Snowstorm made his way back to his office where he was greeted by his right hoof pony, Surgical Scalpel, who had just finished brewing some hot coffee for him and hopefully his newest ally. Snowstorm put on his new smile as he took a seat at his desk and looked over at the stallion across from him.

"It's an honor to finally talk face to face, without having to keep up appearances. I hope your ride here wasn't too uncomfortable. Formalities you know" Snowstorm chimed.

"I understand, you have a reputation to uphold" Al Ca'pony said, taking another bite of his meal. By 'slop', Snowstorm actually meant a freshly made lasagna, topped with grated Parmesan cheese, breadsticks and a small Caesar salad on the side.

"And again, I thank you for letting yourself get arrested so that we could meet" Snowstorm levitated his cup of coffee over to him and began mixing in several packets of sugar.

"I must say, when Billy the Bucker from Manegatten told me you wanted to meet, I was skeptical. But you do have a way with convincing a pony" Ca'pony said as he took a small sip of his own coffee.

"I'm glad you accepted my invitation. Now, shall we get down to business?" Snowstorm said as he levitates a few files and placed them over beside Ca'pony.

"A real business pony, I admire that" Ca'pony said as he took a small bite of his breadstick before picking up the top file.

"I need you to bring a few ponies to me. Please, do your best not to harm them" Snowstorm commented, blowing on his coffee.

After looking the files over, Ca'pony placed them back down and looked at Snowstorm with a rather distasteful expression. "These jobs won't be easy. The places are heavily guarded."

"They say you are the best of the best when it comes to pulling off even the most difficult of hist." Snowstorm commented. "It should be child's play for you."

The crime boss thought for a moment as he scratched his chin. "And what do I get in return? What am I risking my neck for?"

Snowstorm knew it was coming. The same question Salted and Cynical had when he approached them to get them aboard as well. Everypony has

Something they want, and Snowstorm knew just what to offer them. "What would you say if I told you that you could be a king?"

Author's Note:

hope you guys are enjoying the story thus far. sorry I haven't posted in a while, got a second job and its been crazy. but do not worry, I wont stop writing. Also, I have a back story for Cynical, explaining why he is the way he is, but I had to make it separate because it is really, really dark. I need to edit it, but when I do, ill post a link for it.