Dishonored magic

by Blacklight Brony


The gang in ponyville and the celebration

It’s been eight years since I got to equestria. Twilight and I met that same day as when I met mom. Celestia adopted me because of all the stuff I’ve been through in those four years. I’ve been training using the doppelgänger ability. I never used my powers in public. Not even mom knows all of my abilities. She only knows the ones on the day we meet. Right now Twilight is reading about a myth called Nightmare Moon. I’m checking my mp5. I figured out how to take the suppressor off, had to take apart the gun. For some reason Twilight gets nervous around me. I have a feeling that I’ll find out soon.

“Longest day of the thousandth year Nightmare Moon will return.” She read out loud. I looked at her with a raised eyebrow. She turns to look at me, blushes, and looks away. I find when she does this kind of cute. I use blink to get beside her.

“Longest day of the thousandth year hu.” I say it in a questioning tone. She looks at me confused.

“How did you do that?” She looks a little excited.

“Twilight, focus.” She blushes harder and does as I say. She grabs my arm and drags me with her.

I walk to the library as she gets stopes by her sum what friends. She passes me and runs into the library. Aaand locked again. I clime to the balcony. Three things I learned in Dunwall those four years. Stealth, because I was framed and wanted, powers, obviously I needed to, and hacking, their security was weak so I learned how to hack from an ally. I nocked on the glass.

“Hay spike. Twilight locked me out.” I deadpan, but he chuckles. I do to a little.

I see Twilight reading frantically at myth books.
I sneak behind her. I give her a big hug and scream at the top of my lungs “HAY TWILIGHT!!!” She jumps and tells me off. Spike and I just laugh uncontrollably. I when she’s done I walk to her and give her a peck on the cheek. She blushes profusely. To be completely honest... I fucking love Twilight. She is kind, sweet, and smart. She looks at my hand with the mark.

“I’ve been meaning to ask you.” She said in a questioning tone examining the hand with the mark showing a little. “Why do you always have that cloth covering your hand? Is it an cut you want to hide or does it have sentimental value.” That question hit me like a ton of bricks. How will I explain this to her. Mom wiped the students Memrise of how I killed the spymaster. How do I explain how I killed using the power the Outsider gave me.

“Some things are better left unexplained, Twi.” I say trying to hide my gilt. At some point I will have to tell her about the mark and how I killed before I got here. I’ll tell her later today. She has that spell that can see in to memories. Spike burps and a scroll appears. I glance at Twilight. She only gives me a guilty grin. “I thought we were on break?” My tone is quickly picked up and she give a sheepish smile. I sigh and listen carefully. Apparently mom wants us to go to ponyville. Another letter was found and it was address to me.

‘Dear John,

You will be going to ponyville too.-’

“Looks like I’m going with you.” I say getting an excited squeal from Twilight. I chuckle and continue reading.

‘This is for your eyes only. There is a dangerous gang and I know you can do it. Don’t kill them, but knowing you you won’t kill them. If needed use your powers. I thank its about time the citizens of Equestria saw your power. I love you son. Be careful.

Love,
Mom’

I smirk and Twilight notices. She taps me on the shoulder. I spin around only to be a few inches away from her face. We stay like that for ten minutes. We stare into each other’s eye the entire time. Spike had to brake our gaze. “You two ok? You where like that for a long time.” His question stopped our unofficial staring contest.

“Y-yes lets go.” I stuttered earning a chuckle from Twilight. I stare at the ground until she starts to leave. We walk up to a chariot to see two pegasi ready to fly us to ponyville. Spike reads the letter again and I’m a litter hurt I’m not considered a friend. We land and we get off quickly. We see a pink mare. Spike tells her to at lest talk to them. She said hello and she shot off like a bullet. “I need to explore the town. I’ll meet you at the library.” She seems vary existed for some reason. I run towards a wall and run up it for three steps and climb the rest of the way. I put on my mask and hood then run along the rooftops.

I see some one making a seen. Ho god he’s going to get the shit beat out of him. He’s in front of a orange mare with a plad button up shurt, blue jeans, boots, and a weird hat on. I’ll ask her later. I take of my mask and hood. I drop of the roof with a loud thud. He turns to face me. “You need to calm down sir.” I say getting the attention of the market. They stare in awe. “Calm down and no pony gets hurt.” He grips something behind his waste. He takes it out to revile it was a sword.

“Are you an idiot! He’s apart of them gang!” The mare yelled but I didn’t listen. I only smirk and I run at him. I cross my arms then sling them to my waste. I turn in to a shadow and crawl towards him. He’s scared out of his mind. I sweep his legs and wait until he hits the ground. I exit shadow walk and notice I have my mask and hood on. I take it off and stare into his eye with fury. I punch him in the temple. He lays there... unconscious. I get up and use pull to drag him to me. I put him on my shoulder and ask the orange mare: “Where’s the prison?” She gets out of her stupor and looks at me quizzical.

“Follow me, but just know I got an eye on ya’.” She said keeping an eye on me.

“Is this the only one?” I don’t look at her. She only shakes her head. She then proceeds to put a finger up. “One more?” That questioning tone gets her to nod softly. “Ok it looks like I have to hunt them down. I’m John Mavericks and you are?” She becomes visibly less tense.

“I’m Applejack. After this let’s go to my family’s farm” she began to get happier as we walk beside each other.

We reach the prison and I turn him in. We walk to her farm. I look at the sign. It said ‘Sweet Apple Acrs’. I walk in to see hell of a lot of ponies. Something latches on to my leg. I jump and use blink to get away. I sigh in relief. “Sorry for that. Old habits die hard. I thought you were a rat from Dunwall trying to eat my leg. You would be surprised how many people die that way.” I say kind of scaring them.

I sigh and walk up to greet the little one. I put on the friendliest smile I could put on. “Hello there little one. Sorry for scaring you. I’m John Mavericks. You are.” The filly was yellow with a red mane and tail. She also had a bow on the top of her head. She wore a casual white short sleeve shirt, blue jeans, and black shoes. She looked around nine years old.

“I’m Apple Bloom. Nice to meet ya’ mister.” She said happily.

I look around and see a large earth pony in front of me. He had red fur and orange mane and tail. He wore the same thing as Applejack. He didn’t have a hat on though.

“Hello there. I’m Big Macintosh, but ponied call me Big Mac.” Big Mac said looking happy.

“John Mavericks. Can you tell me what’s going on please.” I say with my voice getting higher.

“This is the Apple family reunion. Why y’all here. If you don’t mind me asking.” He said making me feel bad because I feel like I’m intruding on their reunion.

“I was sent by the princess to take out the gang. I’ve already got one. To be honest, the gangs her are nothing compared to Dunwalls gangs. Most protect people and give money to the one that need it. Slack jaw and his gang started that. The rest kill random people on site. There were five major ones controlled by a two hundred year old gang called the howlers. Thankfully I had my abilities and skills to take them down. Plus to make it harder on myself I don’t kill unless deserved.” I explain getting awed looks from the members. “Maybe I should le-“ I was cut of at I heard Applejack buck a tree or in my case kick. She walked to the other side of the house.

I follow her and see Twilight in deep thought. I use blink to get in front of her. She yelps in surprise before noticing me. She glares at me, but it falters quickly. Twilight and I hug for a second before letting go. “Sorry John if I knew you were here I would have came here sooner.” She said and I only sigh.

“Sorry Twilight I had to take down a gang member.” I say but she quickly ganes a look of confusion.

“How did you teleport?” I’m going to tell her later. She needs to focus now.

“Twilight. Focus.” I look at her with a smile afterwards. She only blushes in response. “I’ll tell you later.” I whisper in her ear. She squeals in delight. We check on the food and say my goodbyes. I walk with Twilight to help check on the preparations.

We walk until I hear ‘LOOK OUT’. When I do I side step. Twilight gets hit into mud and she looks... unamused. They talk and Twilight tricks her into doing her work. Her name is Rainbow Dash, but she doesn’t have my attention.

I see a gleaming light like it was reflecting off... medal. I see a figure with a bow and arrow. When he lets go I push Twilight out the way and the arrow hits the ground where she stud. I pull out my mp5. He was gone. A unicorn maybe or good at stealth. A good assassin, but I’ve seen better. I use bend time and find him in an alley. I throw him out and time resumes. I freeze it again. I get behind him and getting him in a chock hold. Time resumes and the chock hold works. I tense up my right arm and he loses consciousness. “Sorry you two, but I have a prison to get to.” I use blink to get on top of a building.

I run to the prison and drop him off. It’s almost nine so it’s time to go to the library. I get there and see Twilight, spike, and another mare. She was holding spike in a bridal position. I make my self known. “Hello. I’m John Mavericks and you are?” I say getting the yellow mares attention. She has on a green sweater and tight pants. That made me uncomfortable.

“H-hello, I- I’m Flutershy.” It was a barely audible whisper, but four years of ease dropping got me to be able to hear whispers easily. She flies in and Twilight sighs. I put my hand on her shoulder and we walk in. It was dark. To dark no moon light or a lamp in the other room on. I prepare wind blast. The lights suddenly come one and my vision is covered in pink.

“SUPRI-“ she was cut off with wind blast. I feel horrible after that.

“I’m so sorry. Last time someone did that they kidnapped me. Or in your terms foalnapped.” I explain be for I’m classified as a monster.

Twilight was in awe. “How did you do that?” She asked still in awe.

“”Still remember that memory spell?” I just heard the irony in that sentence and chuckle. Twilight does the same after releasing it.

She does the spell and a cloud of smoke appears, showing my memory. She is a little sad to hear my parents were killed. Everyone had the same look. I can’t blame them.

The next thing was how I got to Equestria. They are in for a surprise.

(If you forget I copy and pasted it because I’m lazy)

‘I put on the mask as I see the car pull up. There are people in the way. A walker steps in front of them and launches a incendiary arrow at them. Two run towards the wall of light and turns to ash. I run along the rooftops until I jump a second jump on the roof. I scouted the area to find any patrols that might get in the way. I find a loan guard on a balcony. I use to get above him. I spin my sword so it’s facing the right. I jump down and stab him in the shoulder. It cuts a vital vain in half and he dies instantly. I lay him on the ground and he hits with a muffled thud. I find the door that leads to the spymaster. I peek in the key hole. They noticed me, but I got there confession on video. I left the object on my mask on. After this I’m taking it off. I use wind blast to shader the door. One guard swings at me and I grabbed his hand. I grappled him and cut his throat open. I punch the other guard. I spin him around while he was still in a daze. I stab him in the back and the spymaster runs away. I follow suit and kick his door open. He calls his guards and three shots ring through out the building. I use bend time by swiping my hand in the air like I’m cleaning a window. Time stops as the bullets are about to hit me. I walk out of the line of fire while pulling out my cross bow. I shoot three times at the three guards necks. I was lucky that it was self loading. Time resumes and the bolts hit their necks. I walk to the spymaster and grab him by the collar. I slice his throat open. Guards burst open the door. I use blink to burst through the glass and on to the street. Two walkers approach me. I ready wind shield to catch the arrow. They fire their arrows and I catch them only to launch it back at them. I take off the object and I was right to thank it was a small camera. I threw it down and a another walker silently walks behind me. I try to walk away but the incendiary arrow hits the ground and all I see is white.‘

They where shocked when I killed the first guard, but when they heard the confession they had approving looks. “Those six guards where the best we had to offer. Like people say history repeats. I was framed for a crime I didn’t commit, Was unable to save people in time, and lost my parent and friend. Him and His parents where ordered to death by the spymaster because he felt like it. He was head of law informant. He did all those horrible things. So I killed him. Those people that the spymaster and those guards killed can Rest In Peace knowing that no more will meet the same fate.”

Another memory starts. It was the worst experience of my life. It was my first encounter with a weeper. “John, what is this memory.” Twilight asked a little scared from where it was.

“This was my first encounter with a weeper. She was to far gone. There was no helping her.” I answered with a solum tone.

‘I was running on the rooftops when the rooftops became heavy guarded. I had to go through the sewers. When I climb in I see blood covering the walls. ‘What did this?’ I thought to my self. I heard someone crying. “Are you ok down there?” I asked to the crying person. I found her and she was facing away from me. I poked her shoulder. She turned around and I was dumbfounded. It was a weeper. She had ripped clothing and her eyes were black. She had blood poring out of her mouth and eyes. She pounced on me. I kick her off and use wind blast to knock her to the wall. I tare a pipe off the wall. As the weeper got up, I prepared to hit. When she stud up I slammed the pipe into her head. Her head became nonexistent. There was nothing left of her head. I fall back and twist my body so my face is towards the ground. I throw up. “I thought the rat plague ended two hundred years ago. People know the cure for the rat plague is free right. I’m going to avoid any other people down here.” I get up and run though the sewer.’

The memory ends and I look around. They all look like someone curbed stomped a puppy. Twilight walks out. I follow her in to her room. She looks angry... pissed... beyond pissed. “Are you ok Twilight?” She looks at me and we locked eyes. The same thing that happened at the Canterlot library. Only this time our face aren't three inches apart.

I walk up to her let, braking the gaze. I sit on the bed beside her and she leans on me. I feel my hart race. “John all the ponies in this town are crazy. What do I do?” She asks with sadness seeping into the last sentence. “I don’t know what to do. You are my only friend. I love to have you around, but how am I going to do.” I stand her up and hold her shoulders.

“Twilight get a hold on your self. Your brilliant, kind, and cunning. You can do anything Twilight. SO GET A HOLD OF YOUR SELF!!!” I scream at the top of my lungs.

I let go and try and walk away, but I slip and grab Twilight. We both grunt as we hit the ground. I open my eyes to see Twilight on top of me. She swiftly lunges at me and we meet in a kiss. I’m taken aback, because it was so sudden. She brakes off and looks at me disappointed.

“Why so glum?” I ask and she looks depressed.

“I- I love you John. We were friends for so long. I just wanted to be more than that. Seens you didn’t return my kiss, I gue-“ I cut her off with my own kiss. We stay like that for long time. I hear the door open, but I don’t brake the kiss.

We separate and looked at the door to see Applejack covering her lower face with her hat. Fluttershy standing there with her wings extended, I figured out what that means. Rainbow with the same pose as Fluttershy. I now realize Rainbow has a tracksuit on and a rainbow mane and tail. I see a white mare warring a blue dress and a indigo mane and tail. The mane and tail where curled. The last mare was the pink one and she had a happy expression.

“Oh darling I didn’t know you were into that stallion.” The white one said. “Hello darling I’m Rarity.” She had a noble Dunwall citizen.

“Hello there Rarity. I’m John Mavericks. Proud descendent of Corvo Atono, lord protector and lover of empress Jessamine Kaldwin and father of empress Emily Kaldwin.” They were all taken aback about my family background.

“Hello there I’m pinkie pie. Nice to meet you John. Nice to see that Twilight has a special somepony.” Pinkie said a little gitty.

“So how did the Atonos become the Mavericks? If you don’t mind.” Fluttershy asked meekly.

“Corvo came from Karnaca after winning a competition ment for grone men. He became the lord protector after getting to Dunwall. He fell in love with the empress and the same with the empress. They soon conceived a child, Emily Kaldwin. Jessamine gets assassinated by a well known assassin called Daud, my friend was his descendent. Corvo was framed for her murder. He clears his name. Emily gets framed for slaughtering an entire throne room. She clears her name. She falls in love and conceives two children. One keeps the Kaldwin name and the other takes Mavericks. And that’s how the Atono became the Mavericks, but my middle name was a mystery until I found my family tree book. My middle name is Atono. So at lest I have some part of my family’s name. Thank you for asking.” That bright up my day. I smile lightly and Twilight gripes my hand.

“Its time to go to the town hall.” Twilight said as the party clears out.

A light engulfs me and I’m teleported to the Void. “My friend it’s been a while sense we last spoke. I’m here to give you another gift. I’m give you viles for wounds. It only works on you. Unfortunately, The vile will not regrow limbs. It’s time to leave John. Goodbye.” After he said that I exit the Void and am in the town hall next to Twilight. She hugs me and said she was so worried.

They introduce mom and she is missing. I grab my blade. I see a dark blue mist forms and Nightmare moon forms from the mist like a Phoenix from the ashes. the rest of the cowers. I extend my sword getting awed looks from the sword. This gets Moons attention.

“O, I see we are in the presence of a new species. Who might you be?” Moon asks and I look unamused. I put on my mask and hood.

“I’m John Mavericks, descendent of Corvo Atono, lord protector of empress Jessamine Kaldwin and father of Emily Kaldwin,” I say getting a amusement appreciation from Moon. The fight will began soon. “And I’m going to kick your ass.” This will be fun.

To be continued...