A stone crashed through the window, interrupting Ombra before he could continue his story.
“Merda! You must leave!”
“If the mercenaries are your friends, why the hay are they trying to kill us?!?” asked Twilight Sparkle, terror evident in her voice.
“I will answer your questions later, now leave!” countered Ombra.
“You’ll get killed!”
Ombra looked highly sceptical at that, but his reply was serious.
“My survival is optional, yours is not.”
The heavily emphasised word was in stark contrast to Ombra’s cold, calculating speech from moments before. It was a plain sign that there would be no reasoning with him, he had his orders and he intended to follow them. Twilight had no intentions of being alone on the road to Canterlot, however.
“And if you get killed who’s going to protect me?”
Ombra startled the lavender unicorn by answering her question with a short, surprised laugh.
“The mercenari are not so skilled, Twilight.”
Ombra sounded confident, and so after a brief moment of hesitation Twilight teleported away.
Ombra lost his cocksure demeanour, and with a small prayer to his Princess burst out of the small shed they had hidden in, prepared to fight.
Only ten minutes later, Twilight nearly jumped out of her coat when she heard the sound of gentle hoof-steps walking toward her. Hiding herself with a liberal application of illusion magic and a conveniently placed bush, she waited. Her fears were silenced when she saw the telltale white robe of Ombra, only to be reawakened when she noticed several tears and spots of red on the once pristine garment. Chills ran down her spine when the Assassin looked directly at her with his disturbingly dead eyes, and did not look away. It was as if he knew exactly where she was. Twilight dropped the illusion and crawled out from the bush.
“You’re hurt...” she intoned, sad to see a pony wounded on her account.
“Così è la vita, I will recover. I must keep you safe, all other things are secondary. Come, let us walk.”
And with that, they struck out for the nearest safe place Ombra knew of. As they walked, the Assassin continued his story.
Authors Notes And Translations:
Merda=Shit
La Verità=The Truth
Così è la vita=Such is life
Mercenari=Mercenaries
And that is why Twilight Sparkle is marked as a main character, and why there is an alternate universe tag.