In the dead of night, Canterlot City, people scurrying around for errands, parties, events, and other things to do with their time.
In a dark ally, wind was stirring, a ball of light materialized, sending off lightning bolts to strike the sides off the surrounding buildings, wind sending newspapers, leaves and rocks flying. As the orb began to collapse on itself, a figure of a man, knelling on the ground. He eyes, lifeless. A nearby man watched on in confusion/interest, “What the hell?” The figure stood up, looking over to the man, slowly cracks began to form around him.
The human issue began to dissolve, exposing a metal endoskeleton surrounded by a mix of liquid metal and machine phase matter, re-obtaining its original human guise, now wearing dark blue jeans, a black trench coat over a blood crimson shirt, and topping it all off is a black fedora. He turns to the man staring at him in awe, his eye glowing bright red, almost to the point of burning. “W-What the hell are you?” He asks in horror.
The Figure walks over to the man, grabbing the top of his head, “W-What are yo-“ He voice cuts off by the figure snapping his neck, and leaving him there. “Tying up loose ends.” The figure says to the corpse in a deep intimidating voice, capable of sending chills down any spine. The Figure then walks off away from the scene of his first murder, to find his targets.
The Next Day.
Canterlot High on an average day is, boring. Not much goes on without some magical psychopath trying to destroy/take over the world, and the classes make an hour, feel like years slowing time to a crawl.
Finally, the lunch bell rang and students almost immediately ran out to the cafeteria, a certain group of 7 girls sat together chatting on about things going on with their families and other things.
“So guys, “Rainbow started. “Guess what happened last night.”
“You finally read a book?”
“You got a motorcycle?”
“A Horse?”
“You were invited to a party?”
“You got a pet?”
“You got some new attire?”
“Nope, I getting a new guitar!” She says delighted as she pulls out her phone to show her friends the new instrument she’ll receive, it had an Angular shape, patterned with a rainbow design.
“I’ll be getting it in about a weeks’ time!”
“Wait,” Twilight spoke up. “What happened to your other one?”
“Oh…It kinda broke….” Rainbow said.
“How so?” Rarity asked.
Dash cocked her head to Pinkie.
“Mind telling them?”
“Well,” The pink haired girl started. “I made a marshmallow guitar pick for Dashie.”
Given their adventure at Camp Everfree, they quickly understood where the story went.
“So, yeah.” Rainbow sighed. “I ordered a new one a few days ago.”
“Shame too.” Rarity commented. “It went so well with your outfit!”
"Yeah..."
“So..." Sunset began, hesitant to bring up the topic discussed on the news earlier that day. "Anyone see the news?”
“Yep.”
“Uh huh.”
“Yeah.”
“Course.”
“Yes.”
Twilight didn’t’ say anything, being caught up in her thoughts. Sunset gave her a nudge on her shoulder.
“Twilight?”
“Oh, yeah I did.” She responded. “I’m just confused, no one in this town, to my knowledge has any reason to straight up kill anyone.”
“That is fairly strange.” Rarity commented. “What concerns me more is this culprit was never found.”
“Scary.” Fluttershy managed.
“Don’t worry, Fluttershy, if some psycho tries to attack us, he’ll have to get through me!” Rainbow reassures, bumping her fists together.
“Anyone else find it weird how, despite there are being several burn marks around the scene, the guy was killed due to a neck snap?” Sunset questioned.
“Maybe it was to scare ‘em, before…you know.” AJ suggested.
“No,” Twilight spoke. “The marks seemed too, inconsistent to be specifically for intimidation.”
The lunch bell rang, signaling the students to head to their next period.
"Come on, we should get to class." Twilight told them.
Meanwhile...
The figure walked through the city to find a gun store to gain this era's weaponry, as to not attract attention to himself. Well, using a built in plasma cannon would attract attention from everyone, using a standard firearm would just have people running, not questioning it. He arrived at Ammu-Nation, entering he requested two SIG Pro Pistols, and a Colt 9mm SMG with 16 fully loaded magazines, along with two suppressors. He paid the vendor, and preceded to attach the suppressor to the front of the firearm, then loaded it.
"Hey you can't-" The vendor was then shot square in the head. He then wrapped the strap around his right arm under his coat to hide it under his trench coat. He then formed two holsters for his pistols to rest in, absorbing the magazines into his arm to summon at any time. He turned to the now dead vendor. "Thank you for your cooperation." Before leaving he grabbed a piece of paper and a pen from the counter from the counter and wrote a note, aware the police, and the news would report about this: I will not stop until I find TS, RD, R, FS, PP, AJ and SS, and kill them. Bring them to me, and one else has to die. Don't get in my way.
With that, he walked out the back door into the city.
After School
The girls were having a movie night at Pinkie's house. Right in the middle of an old horror flick, the main antagonist jumped out at the screen, frightening everyone, well just Fluttershy. Everyone else was too distracted by how badly the effects had aged.
Twilight was flipping through her phone during one of the more boring parts, got a notification.
It was a link to a new-story about the murder at Ammu-Nation, she was horrified.
"Pinkie, turn on the news."
"Why?"
"It's important"
The pink haired girl listened and switched the TV from DVD player to cable and flipped to the city's local news.
"This just in, another murder was reported, this one at the gun store Ammu-Nation. The victim was Richard Burns. He was working at the counter before the assailant came into the store, bought two SIG Pro Pistols, a Colt 9mm SMG, fully loaded magazines, along with two suppressors. If you see a man with anyone of these item, please contact-" The newswoman paused for a second. "This just in, we just received video evidence from one of the store's surveillance cameras."
The video shows the Figure buying his requested items, loading and attaching a suppressor to his pistol then shooting the man in cold blood. leaving a large splatter of blood and guts on the wall behind Richard. The figure gave no reaction, no flinch, he didn't even blink. He then hoisted the SMG's strap over his arm, under his coat, absorbing the pistols and magazines into in arms and legs, sinking into him like they're submerging in water. He then wrote the note and left it on the counter before leaving.
"We assure our views, this is unedited footage, nothing has been tampered with." The newswoman reassured. "The police recovered the note left by the assailant, we'll show what it says now." The screen changed to show what the note says, I will not stop until I find TS, RD, R, FS, PP, AJ and SS, and kill them. Bring them to me, and one else has to die. Don't get in my way. The seven girls looked on, realizing this man, what ever it was, was out to kill them.