//------------------------------// // 1-from assassin to filly (revised) // Story: New Chances // by Ghosthunter //------------------------------// “Creed you good my guy?” my partner ask as we sit and wait for our targets. “Yea I’m good man I just have a lot on my mind lately, don’t worry about right now let’s focus on the mission and see where we are at on o it” I say to him moving forward and getting close to the area we see several guards and many of them. “Okay lock you on the to your right and Ill take the one on left be ready, got it” looking to him pulling up my mask that has a half skull and ready my blade “go” I say to lock, lunging forward and grabbing him by the shoulder and quickly placing him down on the ground and covering his mouth simultaneously stabbing him in the neck, as I was doing that lock knocking his target to the ground stabbing him in the back killing him quickly. “Try and keep the noise to a minimum please I don’t want another plains keep incident again ok” asking lock with a serious expression. “I get it dude trust me ill be on my best behavior, don’t get your panties in a twist about it” lock says waving it off, he’s been with the assassins over a year and a half now but he’s young and stubborn about his way of thinking. “So, any chance we can find this precursor relic here? Cuz that’ll be neat if we did” lock says to me, honestly yes it would be better if that relic was here for us meaning months of hunting and tracking it down will be worth it, but luck was never on an assassin’s side when it came down to templars. “don’t get your hopes up lock, it might be here, and it might not be, all the same keep and ear and eye out for it okay my student?” addressing him by title year and a half still can’t pass the final test. Ever since the calamity twenty years ago abstergo came to the rescue or so everyone thought. It started off slow, but they needed more people to help with finding a way to fix the problem as they continued to take more and more people, they ultimately locked everyone that went into their zones everyone but the assassins. when it happened the creed had been suffering infighting and questioning who was in charge of us as a whole, after one stepped up and took the lead we have been moving in a better direction and started gain the ground we lost after millennia of war. “Yes, mentor ill will do what I can about the noise” he says sarcastically Smiling “good then let’s move shall we” going pass lock and leaning into a nearby wall I see two guards down the hall and one on the roof. “Ok you go up and take out the one on the roof ill take care of these two here” looking to lock, he nods and goes to the roof. Moving behind the two guards stabbing them simultaneously looking up to see lock take his target down pointing to a set of doors below him, he nods and climbs down as I approach the doors, I get the sense that it was too easy to get in and get this close to the informant. “Lock keep your wits about you something feels off” looking to lock only to see him smile. “Well maybe we finally caught a break or found one who can’t protect himself well, I bloody honestly don’t care right now been wanting to get this mission over with” he says lifting his arms up and reaching for the door handle. Grabbing his arm “just be careful okay” looking him dead in his eyes. “Yes mentor” he responds with. Opening the door, we enter and move in as we move through the room “so is this where they would be or did, we get miss informed?” lock ask “Hold on this place is empty so that mea-” I was cut off when a new voice came in. “Yes, this was a trap to lure your grandmaster in” he says ‘but I get his little grunts instead so I’ll make do’ he says to himself “on to business, I need him and you two can convince him do that and this little hunk of junk you assassins want so bad is yours” he shows us the relic “all. I. want. Is. Him. Please” he annunciated each word, the man stayed away from the light, but his eyes shined red for a moment. “Now why would we do that?” I ask cautiously, he starts laughing and points to lock “he was the one help make this meeting possible” he says. I look to lock only to see him come at me blade ready to kill me. Moving back to avoid being stabbed. I raise my own arm up against his in a parry, moving forward to grab him, he leans back and moves for a leg sweep. Jumping away from him and readying my hidden blade (he only has one I have two, the advantage is mine do to me having better skill and experience). Dashing forward lock throws a punch followed by a downward slash, dogging the punch and sidestepping the slash his eyes go wide as my blade goes into his side. But not all was expected a sharp pain race through my side I look to what it was coming to a realization that lock had second blade hidden on him (a hidden, hidden blade how funny) “FUCK, damn it” lock screams out loud “the assassins keep denying me my rank, so fuck it ill just take it by force” with labored breaths he moves towards me his legs shake and he goes to his knees. (Shit im no better myself) the sound of footsteps behind me alert me that the only other occupant come to see the end result of the fight. “My you have skill and impressive reflexes, but age does have a way of putting rust on the bones huh creedson black?” as he moves to the front of me, the lights above me obscure my sight leaving a shadow across his face. “Fuck you asshole, I’m only fifty two and you think some boy who got to big for his boots will take me down without a fight” I say to him “Then you’ve been drinkin paint thinner son” I spit at his shoes “So if you don’t mind go fuck yourself off to hell and take the boy too” finishing my rant with a smile I look to the mystery man only to see him smile. “Well, I didn’t say you booth had to be alive but ill take you” going over to lock he pushes him and his body falls over to its side. “You see damaged goods aren’t the best so, yeah” reaching down and pulling out a pocket watch “well i'v got an appointment to keep and well this is no longer useful cant find anything about it or make it work, go ahead and have it sir” placing the box next to me he begins to walk off to somewhere unknow. (Fuck lock at least could’ve aimed lower) lock only missed my lungs by a hair in doing so making me bleed a lot. “Well, I’m stuck here for the time being might as well look at the damn relic” picking it up to see it better. (Well, I’m not a genius but I think their right must be some unfinished project from the precursors) “kinda wish I had better life now” pain ran through my side as I breathed in deep “fuck me that’s the smarts” a bright light filled the room “a wish has been made, a wish will be granted” a feminine voice spoke. The light continued to grow brighter and brighter all the while pulling me to it, with nothing to hold on to I turn to the light and ready myself for whatever comes (well it’s been a good life). When nothing but light was in my vision, I closed my eyes and waited for my end. Equestria the bright light faded away and after a moment nothing then there was a gasp. Snaping my eyes open to see what happened to me, only to be thourghly floored by what I’m seeing. A purple pony staring right at me next to her was a very big and very tall white one next it, behind the small purple pony were two others a grey one and a navy blue one. “Twilight how did you do that?” the grey one ask both curious and cautious. “Don’t know mom but she looks like me except her fur is black, and eyes are red plus her cutie mark is different than mine” the pur- twilight said. “Don’t fret Ms. Sparkle lets see if she has some kind of idea of what’s happening?” the white horse said “Ok princess. Um what just happened?” the grey mare asked looking at the filly. “Well, if I had to guess is that when her magic surged, she must have made a perfect twin of herself” the white horse said walking up to the little filly “So now the question is what do you want to do with her miss velvet?” keeping her eyes on the filly (interesting her eyes are looking over herself with curiosity but there is fear in her eyes as if this was not supposed to happen). “Well, she’s a living being so might as well ask her” looking to the filly and carefully asking “So, um dear what is it that you want to do? Do you want to be a part of our family or do want to go with the princess?” velvet asked. I look to the mare thinking on what to do (I have both my old and the filly’s memories. What I want is answers so best to get both and go from there) “I want to go with you mom but have some questions that the princess can answer may I talk to her alone please?” after that was said the grey mare looked at me, what I saw was both happy and cute. She cried and said yes. I got up and ask the princess to lower down. “There is a lot I want to ask so can we go somewhere privet and discuss this quickly?” asking her she nods and lights up her horn. The moment the bright light vanished I looked around and saw we were in a study. “So, what is that you want to discuss with me about?” she asked “Well one I’m not from here, two how did I get here, three why am I small” “Well to answer in order, you came here after a magic surge, why your small I don’t know and how you got here that to” she says “Well, I got question done with bu- damnit I know how I got here that stupid relic shit it actually worked and my stupid wish was granted” looking at the ground in thought. “If you wished for a better life then you have it, it also sounds like your relic put you into this body to have that made real” she says with a smile. “You know what yeah, your right, I’ll take this and go with now I have a few thigs I want but those can wait for now let’s get back to them” I say to her. “sure” her lights up and we came back to the same room just as a purple blur slams into me “wha- twi don’t do that ok? Sheesh” looking at the little filly. “Sorry sis it’s just well you’re here and staying with us and spike so yeah” (spike? Who’s that?) looking for spike my eyes land on the reptile sucking on his tail. “Oh, spike right, ok so what now well how about you and twilight be my personal students” she leans down and whispers ‘it help you’ moving away from me I look to her and nod, twilight on the other han-hoof (well Time to learn new words) just jumps around us saying yes. "By the way what is your name young one might as well pick one" the princess asked. "Unity spark" i inform her. "Very well then unity spark lets get you home" the grey mare says "Yes mom" both of them say. (This maybe the best life to come)