//------------------------------// // What is now lost and the elements // Story: Dishonored magic // by Blacklight Brony //------------------------------// “A confident one are we?” Nightmare askes only getting a smirk for my response. It goes unseen due to the mask. She summons ten nightmare guards equipped with flint lock pistols. I take out my mp5 and point it at them. The occupants in the town hall look at it confused. “RE-“ He didn’t get to finish as a borage of bullets tire through their ranks. The floor is painted with their black blood. After I unloading the magazine into them, I look around to see horrified looks. The bodies and blood disappear in black smoke. ‘So their illusions.’ I thought. “Weaponry only used by task forces in Dunwall. Able to take down fifteen soldiers in one magazine. This is the not even the best weapon with me. That title goes to my sword.” I say getting awed looks when they hear my sword is better than my mp5. The mp5 is good, but my sword used in the right way can take down more, faster (with the help of bend time) and not get noticed. “Impressive. You must be the best in this ‘Dunwall’s’ military. Am I right?” I only laugh. “What?” That glare was all I needed to stop. “I was thirteen when I came here. Before that I was framed for thirty accounts of murder. Not including the time I killed a weeper. She was too far gone.” I answered with a smirk. She summons two more of her guards. Pull out a grenade. Pulling the pin, I throw the grenade at one and use far reach on one. I pull him to me and stab him in the neck. “What was this suppose to do-“ he was cut off when it exploded. “I’ll make your nightmares come to life!” The alicorn yelled. “Bring it on you nightmare fuck.” I respond as calmly as I could say. I’m reworded with eleven clockwork soldiers. “Should have kept my mouth shut.” I deadpan. Ten got into a combat stands while one stayed behind the rest. It looked like it was thanking. I run to one and dodge the overhead attack. I cut in in half. I pull out the desert eagle and shoot one three times. I shoot another four more times. I put the gun away. Using wind blast, I knock two one the ground. I stab one and... ONE IS HELPING ME. The clockwork soldier, that was standing behind the rest, stabbed the second one. I lift one off the ground and throw it into a wall. I hear an expression from the one in the wall and it falls apart. I take out the desert eagle again and reload it since I have a chance. While I was reloading, the clockwork soldier helping me cut down two with a right horizontal cut and a overhead slice. I hold up my hand so the clockwork soldier stopped. The last two ran at me ready to strike. I throw a grenade then freeze time using bend time. I pull out my crossbow and shoot the grenade. I was too close. When time resumes, I’m flung back and I lose grip on my sword and crossbow. I pick up my sword as the soldier attacks. I see that destroyed one. I block two attacks and try to get behind it, only to almost get my head cut off. I duck under one attack and get behind it. I place a stun mine under me. It changes up. The soldier attacks with a left horizontal slice. I duck and try to block. My eyes widen as a sharp pain runs through my arm. The shock mine goes off, destroying the last clockwork soldier. Luckily nightmare left when the fight started. Everypony else left to when she did. The friendly clockwork soldier approaches me. “Everyone is waiting out side.” The clockwork soldier spoke. I was shocked when I heard it speak. It was short lived when my arm flared in pain. I looked to it and saw nothing. My right arm was gone. The pain intensified earning a loud scream from me. What’s left of my arm felt like it was on fire. It quickly spread to the rest of my body. I was unable to scream. The soldier walks out the town hall. I hear a collective gasp outside. I follow suit clutching the area where my arm use to be. They don’t notice me. “Anypony miss me?” I ask with a little humor in my voice. The first one to see me is Fluttershy, everypony else stares at the clockwork soldier. Her eyes widen in shock. She covers her mouth to not scream. She wants to scream, but she doesn’t want to alarm anyone else. I nod my head and she uncovers her mouth. I thought she got it out of her system, but I was wrong. She screams. Twilight and the other four we met today turn to face me. They look horrified, except for Twilight. She brakes down crying. The rest of the crowd turn only to see me clenching what’s left of my arm. I try to walk forward only to fall on the first step. The soldier springs into action and catches me with the dull side of the blades, so I don’t get cut. He places me on the ground softly. I feel my body slip into unconsciousness. I open my eyes to see the void. The Outsider brought me here, didn’t he. He appears with both arms behind him. “Hello John. I see you have a loss of limbs.” He states the obvious. “Really, I didn’t notice.” I say sarcastically. I feel something lach onto the back of my arm. I look at it but my sleeve covers it. I see that my sleeve fixed and that my arm is still gone. “What did you do this time?” I say getting use to his usual gifts. The only thing that makes it different is that he didn’t tell me what happened. “I gave you an arm made out of void material. The thing that latched on to you what how it is summoned and put away. Tap it and it will appear and disappear.” I nod understanding what happened. “Oh, I also sealed up your arm. So you won’t bleed out.” Before I could say anything, I wake up back at the library. “John your awake!” Twilight exclaims. She raps her arms around me for a hug. I tap the object strapped to my arm and see it form. I can move it. I expected nothing less from the Outsider. I rap my arms around her and she yelps when she feels the other arm around her. I can feel with it to, interesting. She pulls away and examines my arm. “Your arm is back!” She exclaims looking at it. I sigh, ”not quite” I say and pull up my sleeve. She gasps when she sees its made of something else. “It’s made of material from the void. I won’t use it if I don’t have to.” I say getting her ears to fold down. I tap the object on the back of my arm. It dissipates. “Lets go see the rest.” I get up and walk down the stairs. “We found where we need to go. We waited for you to wake up.” I smile and plant my left hand on her shoulder. I give her a quick kiss before I open the door to see the rest waiting there, even the clockwork soldier. “Rainbow tried to blame you for what happened, but I reminded her of the missing arm and she stopped.” “I still don’t like this thing.” Rainbow said skeptically. “It’s called a clockwork soldier, Rainbow.” I explain giving her a deadpan look. “I’m just glad there’s was only one and with those blades on it I’m just glad it’s on our side.” Rarity said which caused me to laugh nervously. “Actually Nightmare bitch summoned ten more like that clockwork soldier, but hostel. The last one we killed cut off my arm. I have a new one anyways.” All but Twilight looks at me confused on my last statement. I tap the object again and my arm forms. “Actually I thank I will make it go away when I sleep. It feels cold.” They have awed expressions. I remember my sleeve is still rolled up, so I roll it down. “Where are my weapons?” Twilight points me to a table with everything on it. I put everything away, I reloaded the mp5 and put it away last. “Lets go!” I began to walk out the tree. “Clockwork solder, stay here okay.” He complies and doesn’t move. “We need to go to the everfree forest. The castle of the two sisters is there.” Twilight said getting scared looks from the rest. We make it to the edge of the everfree forest. I try to encourage them on the way there, but it didn’t work. “Why are you all scared. It’s just a forest.” Twilight said matter-of-factly. “Your right. Weeeeeeee.” Pinkie said hopping into the forest before being stopped by Twilight. “Sorry girls, but I thank I should do this on my oun.” That earned a stern look from me and disapproving looks from her friends. “No can do. Y’all an’t going in there alone.” Applejack said which caused me to smile. “Take it from me, working alone can cause some loss.” I say pointing to my arm. She takes a look at me be for giving a defeated sigh. I grip her hand and lightly squeeze it. “Plus if it is dangerous, I’m going to protect you. All of you.” My voice leaks determination. That causes the mares with us to gain determined looks to. “I don’t thank we will need protection.” Rainbow Dash said giving me a sideways glance. “Better the assassian than the civilians. Right?” With that last statement we rush head first into the forest eventually it turning into a slow walk. “Wow running was a bad idea.” I state the obvious. They were out of breath while I felt like I could continue running. “How *pant* not out *pant* of breath?” Applejack asked hardly able to finish her sentence. “In Dunwall I was caught a few times and I had to run. Sometimes I made it to another city before they stopped. So why are you guys afraid of the forest?” It didn’t take long for Rainbow to recover and answer. “Because its unnatural.” She answers. “The clouds move on their own.” “The animals take care of them selves.” Fluttershy meekly added. “It’s all around creepy.” Applejack added with a little fear in her voice. That only makes me laugh which earns me a scowl from the rest. “How can you laugh at that. It’s unnatural.” “This is extremely common where I’m from. Clouds moving, they don’t move fast. Animals fending for themselves, it’s nature. Creepy, you should see the hollers compounds. That’s not creepy. It’s terrifying. Plus nothing happened yet, so enjoy it.” I say looking at them. “Other ponies had to come in right.” “Well yes...” Rainbow said. She gained a smirk and a devilish look in her eyes. “They say those who go in. Never. Come. Out!” She shouts and soon the side of the cliff falls apart. I slide down and catch myself on the edge. I see Twilight begin to slip. I shift my hands, so I move to her. Applejack stops in front of us. She grabs one of Twilight’s hands. She reaches for me, but I say: “I’m fine. Get her. I can use my powers to land safely.” She reluctantly does. “Twilight you need to let go.” Applejack said sounding like she knows something. I look behind me to see Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. “Are you crazy!” Twilight exclaims. I feel my hands began to slip. “Trust me.” Applejack stares directly into Twilight’s eyes. She does and gets cought by the two Pegasi. Fluttershy slips a little. “Sorry girls. I’m use to only holding a bunny or two.” She apologizes to Rainbow and Twilight. I lose my grip and begin to fall. I hear a collective gasp as I plummet. I feel a hand rap around mine. I look up to see the Outsider’s pitch black eyes starring back at me. He pulls me up with a smirk on his face. The void feels warm like a heater set at the perfect setting. It lighted to look like a dimly lit fire and it looks nice. “Glad to see you again ,John. I’m here to give you a new power and save you. Your life is more intriguing now. That is why I’m saved you. By the way the new power I gave you is called Dark Vision. It will allow you to see where another pony is looking and their patrol route.” The Outsider explains. That can come to be useful in the future. “Thank you Outsider.” I say giving him a thankful look. He returners it and I continue my decent to the ground, just three feet from the ground. I hit the ground with a muffled thud. I groan as I wallow on the ground from the sharp pain in my back. I see a lavender blur in front of me. I couldn’t make out the voice, but it was most definitely a mare. My vision began to focus and my hearing cleared, I could see it was Twilight. She was wandering where I was and how I did that. I couldn’t speak yet because if I tried it would only come out as slightly audible grunts of discomfort. That hurt like hell. I sit up much to my backs protest. My voice finally collected its self. “Damn it Outsider. At least let me land on my feet.” I grumble under my breath. “Are you okay?” Twilight asked. She was kneeling over my prone form. I only nod in confirmation. “Glad to see your okay.” She leans back up as I do the same. “Let’s continue. Shall we?” I ask ready to finish this and go home to go to sleep. I’m not tired, it’s just I won’t want to be tired tomorrow. We walk on further into the forest. The only thing that fills our ears is Rainbow’s boasting. It’s getting annoying after a while. Outsider please. I notice a bush rustle. What jumps out is a manticore. Not what I ment, but that works. It’s lion like body giving it the extra hight. It bat wings to give it a little bit of flight and speed. Last, it’s scorpion like stinger for a tail, obviously stronger than a regular scorpion poison. I see Fluttershy with a quizzical look, most likely trying to find a way to defuse the situation. I do the same using bend time for, ironically, more time. I touch Fluttershy so se isn’t frozen. She look around confused until she sees my hand. The back glowing a light blue aura. She then continues her observation on the manticore. She looks into the eyes of the manticore and noticing the tearing eye. I see it to. I give her the thumbs up to tell her to go for it. Time resumes and Rarity kicks the manticore in the head. It roars, and in the process, messing up Rarity’s mane. She retreats to hide behind me. “Wait.” Fluttershy meekly said. The others continue their attack. Applejack jumps on it trying to distract it. I see the tail heading for a strike aiming for the mare on its back. I pull her off using far reach. “All your partner.” Applejack said to Rainbow, still flying through the air. “Will do.” Rainbow responds with a mock salut. I catch Applejack in my arms as Fluttershy tries again to get their attention. “Wait.” Fluttershy said less meekly. It was still not loud enough. Rainbow dodges all the attempts to swat her out the sky. While she does that I prepared a sleep bolt. I pull out the crossbow and toss it to my right hand. Eventually Rainbow is taken out the sky by the manticore’s tail. I blink to her and throw her out the way. The paw slams down on me instead. I try to block it with wind blast. I was to late and the paw hit. I feel pain before the darkness takes over my sight. The darkness seems vast and unexplored. I try to move, only to have no reposts from my body. I feel it twitch just barely. The darkness retreats from my sight and leaves me with my body encased in a purple aura. I return to my attempt on moving my body one body part by one. I try to move my arm. It twitches in response to my demands. I try again, only for my hand to move instead of my arm. It’s an improvement, I guess. I attempt to move my other arm, and to my surprise, it moves. There was no strain. I begin to move my other arm and it moves perfectly. I move both of my legs and se I can move them perfectly fine. I smile in my quarrel to move my body. I use blink to get out of the aura. I look behind me to see the girls walking away. I follow close behind them. Apparently they haven’t noticed me... yet. I gain a devilish smile. Using doppelgänger to summon five other copies of me. We all use blink to appear in front of them all. I teleport in front of Twilight. They all scream in surprise and Twilight faints. I panic before catch her quickly. The doppelgängers dissipate into a black fog and heading back to the void. The rest look surprised on my ability. I carry Twilight on my back because of guilt. She is slung over my shoulder. In like her I can’t make thing levitate for a long time. I feel her stirring trying to wake up. I place her on the ground and sit beside her. The ground was soft, so at least she will wake up in comfort. She begins to wake up, but that doesn’t have my attention. A noise caught my ears. It’s trying to sneak around, but it isn’t very good. I pull out my sword and extend it. I hear the unmistakable sounds of a sword exiting it’s sheath. I look be hind me to see the shining tent of gold. “Oh no.” Was all I can say before my worst enemy appears. The overseers are here. Their just as skilled at fighting as I am. There are fifteen in total. I’m so screwed. One fires at me I use bend time so the bullet stops. I walk to him, put him in a chock hold, and throw him in front of the bullet. I push Twilight out the way as time resumes. The overseer get hit by his own bullet. “Are you crazy. You almost killed someone.” I yelled at them. They recoil but recover quickly. “They are in aquatinted with you, heretic. You have must have killed many.” He accuses me. I feel my blood begin to boil. “I’ve only kill seven times! One was a weeper that was too far gone and the other was starting a coupe agent the empress!” They seem shocked to hear this, but they believe strong on their testaments. “Lies I tell you! LIES!!!” He screams. I can tell he is the one leading the group. “Maybe he’s telling the tru—“ the overseer to his left wasn’t able to finish his statement as his head was severed from his body. That’s it. I pull out my mp5 and fire into the group. Their numbers dwindle to three. The rest hit the ground with a thud. They lay there limp. I drop the gun and stare at my hand. ‘I killed them’ that was all I could thank. The last rush me. I thrust my blade into ones throat and jerking one of their heads to the side, snapping the neck. I pull my blade out and feel my eyes tearing up. Not in griff, but thank I’m a monster. At least the guards where an illusion. These overseers are real. The last one reels his arm back to strike, but I dig my blade beep into his chest. I let go and the body falls down, dead. I drop to my knees staring at the ground. ‘Why did I kill them.’ after that thought I lift my hands to look at them. The void hand and my hand covered in their blood. I feel arms rap around me and pull me into a tight, but welcome embrace. I look over my left shoulder to see Twilight. I look behind her to see the rest. They don’t looked shocked, scared, or horrified. They look like I did something right. “Who were those men, John.” Pinkie asked with a surprisingly serious tone. I only sigh and prepare my answer. “They were a overseers. They thank the Outsider is the cause of all the evil in the world. They also thank that all those who worship the Outsider should be killed. Eventually they began to kill people because they worship the Outsider. They make them martyrs.” I answer solemnly. “Then they deserved it. They killed people for believing in a pony that doesn’t exist to give them faith.” Twilight said trying to reassure me. “The Outsider is real, but he has no influence in the world.” They look taken aback by the information I gave. “He can only travel between two different realms of reality and gives people he finds interesting his mark.” They seem relieved as I take off the cloth that covers my mark. Their eyes widen as they see the mark. “He enjoys watching how they use the mark.” They began to look angry because he finds enjoyment on the suffering of others. “People like me use the mark for good. Other get taken down by people like me to protect the citizens. He enjoys the ones who do good better than the ones that do bad. He took a liking to me when I never killed until I found the spymaster.” Their angry looks softens as I finished explaining. “Let’s continue.” I say while Twilight helps he get up. I retrieved my sword and mp5. I reload the mp5 ending with a satisfying click. I spin my sword counterclockwise so it collapses. I place the two weapons in their respective holsters. I get up from my kneeling position and follow the rest, continue what we started. My mood began to switch between shock and fear to a calm fury. I ignore the attempts to get me to falter with my mood. When Rarity begins to speak up on her concerns I would only grit my teeth in iteration. When the forest loses it's moon light was when I knew something was up. I pull out my sword, but don’t extend it, and take a defensive stance. “Well I wanted a break from all the icky muck.” Rarity said much to my hopes she will just shut up. “Is that all Rarity.” I say with some fury seeping through my clenched teeth. I get no response as I’m sure they heard the fury in my tone. “Good, now shut. The. FUCK. Up.” I made sure to put more emphasis of the word fuck. The trees grew faces and the rest scream in frite. Pinkie begins to burst out laughing as I stand still unphased by the sudden growth. “Pinkie, John, get over here.” Twilight said as I still stand defiantly while Pinkie breaks into song. I only glare in annoyance. Once the song ends, they fall to the ground laughing. I still stand where I, finally put my sword away. My anger intensifies after a hour of walking with nothing but silence. It was getting on my nerves. Eventually, I began to thank about what I will do when I get my hands on Nightmare. Rainbow notices this. “Maybe you should vent out what’s on your mind.” She said with a caring tone. Well she will be scared for life after I vent out my anger. So I did. “Nightmare, if the overseers were your doing, I will personally tare your wings off and shove them so far up your ass you will regret coming back from the moon.” After that statement the others made sure to stay away for now. “I need to vent some more of this anger somehow.” The rest nod in acknowledgment and Twilight returns to my side. I take her hand and try to forget about the overseers. We come up to a raging river, and to make it worse I can’t use far reach or blink. I sigh trying to thank of a solution. Eventually, a... SEA SURPEIT. Now I’ve seen it all. I stare in disbelief how it can create a rampaging river. “What a world.” Was all I could make out before tuning ‘him’ out. “What’s wrong!” I yell to get his attention and to help him. “I was here when a dark, swirling mist cut off half of my mustache” the serpent said as I turn around and speak in a calm way, unintentionally loud enough for the rest to hear. “Gay.” It was short and simple, but it earned a chuckle from Rainbow Dash and a glare from the rest. I only smile sheepishly in response. Well at lest my anger is almost gone from that remark. I want to laugh, too. “Why would you make such accusations, John?” Rarity asks getting an immediate response from me. “Well, crying about a mustache that can regrow within a week, for starters.” My deadpan expression is only rewarded with a scoff. “What about that cloak, darling. What if one of us accidentally destroyed that dreadful thing?” She cocks her head to one side. “It is a hand down from generation to generation for two hundred years. Plus it’s historical to my country. So you wouldn’t be destroying a random cloak, you would be destroying the last link to my blooded family and my home.” I give a angry look to her and she recoils with regret. “See what I mean. You wouldn’t be destroying history, but all so a family treasure of my family from Corvo himself.” “Aaany ways. That mustache must be complete. It is a fashion injustice to have it not complete.” Did she ignore me saying it will grow back. “With those polished nails and those new clean scales. Something has to be done.” She then proceeds to tier of a scale and cut off her tail. She then attaches it to the serpent’s mustache. In return, he creates a bridge with his body. “Well, thank you. I guess.” Wow now I need to apologize. “Sorry for the blunt accusation I made.” I put a hand on the back of my head and laugh sheepishly. “Thank nothing of it. I can see how that crying about my mustache could be misinterpreting. No hard feelings.” He replies with a dismissive wave of a hand. “Thank you. I must get going. Bye!” How come the others task are simple task, but mine has to involve killing fifteen people. I catch up to them as I walk behind them quickly. Apparently scaring them will cause Twilight to faint. I also might get us killed because of my luck in life. Yea I might just follow them. Plus I don’t know where to go. We made it. I’m going to ask if Nightmare summoned those overseers. If she did, there is a slight chance she will be leaving in a body bag, or at least with a lot of broken bones. But first we got to make it into the castle. Of course the bridge is destroyed. Fuck. How are we suppose to get a cross. I notice Twilight keeps walking and now started running. “Twilight, wait!” I said but it was to late. She fell of the side of the cliff. I ran as fast as I could to see her holding on for dear life. I breathe a sigh of relief and use pull to get her to safer ground. “Don’t ever do that again, okay?” “Okay.” Twilight answers with the brightest smile I’ve seen. “So how will we get a cross?” That question is quickly answered by Rainbow. “Um, hello.” She said smugly while flaring her wings. We all roll our eyes at her. She flies over and we hear voices. I narrow my eyes to try to get a better view. After we here the voice end, the bridge lifts and Rainbow flies over clearing the fog at the same time. The rest cheer as I give a smirk. We walk across to see the throne room. It was large and empty except for the larg pedestal and two thrones. One was orange while the other was blue. The pedestal was made out of stone with five other spherical stones on it. I lift an eyebrow confused on how we use these elements and where Nightmare is. “There, don’t drop them.” Twilight said with her hands in front of her to emphasize her point on how carful to be. Once they finished laiding down the spherical stones on the ground she spoke again. “The book said the sixth one will show when the five are present.” Her horn began to lights up. “Alright sugarcube. We’ll be out side if you need us.” Applejack said as the rest follow her out side. Before she started the spell, a blue sterling mist appeared and took the elements and we jump in right after the elements where dragged in. I open my eyes to see Nightmare there standing with the sword she held when she appeared. She smirks as I roll up my sleeve and show her. Her smirks falters into confusion and horror. I could only utter two sentences. “YOU DID THIS!!!” I screamed angrily at her holding up my void arm up for emphasis. “AND WHY DID YOU SUMMON THOSE OVERSEERS, YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!” “What are you talking about?” She asked in a sad tone. I could see tears forming in her eyes. Is she really about to cry about my shouting. “Those men with the masks!” I said lowering my voice. “I di- did summon them, but I thought they would halt you. What happened?” She asked worried on my response. “The leader killed one of his followers because he gave me the benefit of the doubt. I had to kill the rest.” I got my answer. Hopefully she will snap out. “I committed genocide to save everyone! This will break me later because you didn’t know they make martyrs out of people that worship the Outsider. If I didn’t kill them first they would kill all the unicorns because of their magic.” I soften my glare. “I didn’t know.” She began to sob. “Then release her.” I softly said. She looked at me, but she heard me. “How did you know?” She said with tears in her eyes. “You think the when you showed up I wouldn’t remember the tale of the mare in the moon. Now release her!” I demand gaining more sorrow from her. Now I feel bad. “I don’t know how.” She said in between sobs. I guess what people say is right. ‘Words cut deeper than any knife.’ “The elements. We could separate you and the other with them. You can live like everypony else.” I gave her a reassuring smile and she returned it. “Don’t worry ya’ll. Where coming!” I heard the voice of Applejack yell as Twilight begins to wake up. “No hurry!” I yelled back. “NIGHTMARE!!!” Twilight said with a vicious look. I gave Nightmare a look that said ‘play along.’ She gave a cynical look and I gave her a approving look. The rest make it and I see a gleam in Twilight’s eyes. ‘The spark.’ I thought and Nightmare gave a hopeful look. I put my mask on once she gave the names the mares that represents each mare. Honestly to Applejack, Kindness to Fluttershy, Laughter to Pinkie Pie, Generosity to Rarity, Loyalty to Rainbow Dash, and last one was Magic and that one went to Twilight Sparkle. I smirked as Nightmare dropped her sword and extended her arms to be consumed by the rainbow. I saw two figures laying on the ground. “You did it my little ponies.” I heard a motherly tone say as a yellow orb floated in to the room. I recognized the voice immediately. “What took you so long.” I said playfully. “Nightmare sealed me away, but I used a spell to watch over you. When John put Twilight down it cut off and began again after John’s endeavor. What happened?” She asked and I lowered my head and mumbled my answer. “What was that?” I gritted my teeth a shouted my answer. “I KILLED FIFTEEN PEOPLE, DAMN IT!!! THEY WOULD HAVE MADE US MARTYRS!!!” I shouted at the top of my lunges before dropping to my knees and let a lone tear roll down my face. I felt a hand softly rest on my shoulder and it was mom. “You said it your self, they would have made you martyrs.” That reassuring smile always cheers me up. “Thank you. By the ways, why don’t you greet the two on the ground over there.” I pointed at the two on the ground with there eyes squinted shut. She walked to the one with the short light blue mane. I walk to the one that was obviously Nightmare. “Told you it would work.” I told her and helped her up. The rest took a defensive stance, but the other two alicorns. “Don’t worry, I talked her out of it.” They relaxed but glanced at her so they would get ready to fight her if needed. I sigh seeing the rest glance at her. I walk up to Twilight and take her hand. I began to walk out with Twilight in tow. The rest follow us back to the town. I walk back to see the clockwork soldier outside entertaining the the children with tails of his time in Karnaca. I chuckle only to here the sound of a gun being loaded. I turn around to be shot in the shoulder, stomach, and foot. I quickly pull out my pistol and shoot him in the head, killing him instantly. I fall to my knees, trying to get up. I fall back down to slowly slip into unconsciousness. I lost a lot of blood when I lost my arm. I’m not dying because of a gun shot. I eventually see my self enter the void. “Hello John. One last gift.” The Outsider said as I roll my eyes. “One is an article of clothing for a formal event you will go to in the future.” I’ll figure it out soon, hopefully. “Another piece of clothing from Corvo. You’ll wake up soon. Bye.” My vision was brightening as I felt myself, steadily, wake up to beeping.