Spike woke up the next day, he then walked into the back room where Thron was drinking some coffee.
"Morning." Thorn said.
"Morning." Spike said.
"So what now?" Thorn asked.
"I'm going to get a friend of mine from the West district, then we head for the South."Spike said as he walked out and headed West. Where he went into a pub and immediately spotted Silver, as he walked over, the Silver pony noticed the Drake walk over.
"Ah Spike, what do you need?" He asks.
"I need you to come with me." Spike said, Silver finished off his drink and got up.
"Lead the way." He said, Spike nodded and they both exited the building heading back East for Thorns shop.
Then Spike and Silver enters the shop and Thorn was there waiting for him.
"Finally." Thorn said.
"Now?" Silver asked, in a bored voice.
"South." Spike said as he and the two ponies walked through the streets, it a lot of ponies seemed to be in cheerful moods, probably since the gangs power in the districts had been taken away.
They soon reached the building where Spike had meet Shadow, Spike gave Thorn a lift up will Silver got himself up on the roof, once they were up, there was Shadow waiting for Spike.
"There you are. Who are these two?" Shadow asked.
"Alright, I think we should all introduce ourselves." Spike said.
So once introductions were out of the way, Shadow asked.
"So what's the plan?"
"Ok, this is the plan." Spike said as he and his three friends huddled up as the plan began.
Later at night
As a convoy of carts headed into the cider factory, it was given the clear by the guards and headed inside, but once the carts were parked inside and were left for tomorrow, two ponies hopped out, they started to sneak past the guards and though the factory, but as they passed the main office, they heard a conversation.
"What do you mean we have no control!?"
"I'm sorry miss Gilda, but we are getting no food, no imports and no finance."
"Grrr. What about the fleet we hired?"
"Sunk."
"Dammit! Urgh...I'm gonna find out what's the cause of this. Please leave."
Soon a frightened pony assistant ran out, the ponies ignored it and continued until they reached the fuse box.
"What's the time?" One asked, the other pony looked at his watch.
"Hit it!" The other pony said, so the first pony opened the box, pulled out his blade and stabbed it in the middle, causing the power to go out.
"What the!?"
"What's going on?"
"Make sure those workers are still under!"
Meanwhile on top of the Factory, a guard was guarding the roof, but he soon gurgled and then fell off, he had just been shot with an arrow and it plunged into his throat.
"Nice shot" Shadow said as Silvers target fell.
"Thanks." Silver said as he, Shadow and some of the brotherhood of thieves rushed quietly to Spike and Thorn who where next to two metal cables that stretched from the top of a tower on the building they were standing on, to two windows.
The thieves Shadow and Silver lined up to different cables, the first to hop in was Spike and Shadow, now half of the thrives were equipped with small blades and hookblades, while the other half are equipped with metal bows and a number of arrows.
They waited until the two ponies who had broken the fuse box took the windows off.
"Remember Shadow, one team protects the archers, another clear the guards, another burn the cider or anything else that would help the gangs and destroy the machinery." Spike said, Shadow nodded and put in a cocky grin.
"Gotcha."
Soon Shadow jumped on the cable using his hookblade while Spike used his tomahawk, the easily landed on the cat walk, where the rooms where completely dark, Spike and Shadow then walked away as Silver, Thorn and the rest of the thieves made it through, the windows went back in place, and the groups,Archers, team A, Team B and Team C. Although some of the thieves and Thorn would follow Spike who would head for Gilda.
Soon the lights came back on and the guards on the catwalks on on different levels. One of the Guards tried to ring the alarm, but was quickly answered with an arrow to the head.
"Remember, go for the Head. And if anyone hits the knee, well you just made an overused joke!" Silver said, breaking the 4th wall.
The groups quickly split up, team B was getting rid of the guards that showed threats, the archers covered by team A, so fought off the guards who tried to get rid of them. Silver was laughing like crazy as the arrows flew.
Meanwhile Shadow had headed down with his crew as they finally found the machines, and also the storage room where the barrels of Cider where on the shelves, and in the middle of the room, a pile of hay, Shadow smirked.
"Let's burn this crap." Shadow said as the thieves started to grab lanterns and others grabbing tools to jab into the machine.
Meanwhile Spike and Thorn were walking through the catwalks and the factory, trying to find Gilda, sure they ran into some guards, but they were ether meet by a tomahawk, or a metal hand.
They then saw a big brick box with a window and a door, this was clearly the top office,but as they ran toward the door, the door exploded with some of the walls, Spike and Thorn ducked in time, but some of the thieves had been blown away, some were seriously injured, others ether passed out or dead.
Once the smoke cleared, Spike and Thorn saw about ten guards armed with muskets and in the middle of them a cannon, behind it was the griffon herself.
"Well, well, if it isn't the little baby." Gilda said.
"I'm no longer the baby dragon you remembered."
"I know, your even a bigger baby dweeb!" She said as she laughed, she then walked infront of the cannon and pulled out a sword.
"Now you two get ready to be chopped into mince meat!" Gilda said.
Spike looked around to see anything to help him, he then looked behind the cannon and saw a barrel of gunpowder, he slowly reached for one of his pistols.
"Charge!" Gilda said as Spike quickly drew his pistol, aimed for the barrel and pulled the trigger.
Everything suddenly seemed to move in slow motion, the little cartridge flew through the sky and past Gilda until it pierced the barrel, where fire began to tear the planks away from the barrel and splitting the wood apart. The shrapnel of wood and splinters quickly flew into the guards, where some of them where flying due to the explosions force.
Soon soled was moving a regular pace and Spike and Thorn quickly ducked, once the explosion stopped Spike and Thorn looked over to see the guards were laying down, with no motion, all except a griffon who was breathing heavily.
"Spike!"
Spike turned to see Shadow, Silver and the thieves.
"What do we do with the workers?"
Spike thought about then stood up.
"Get those carts ready, get the wounded and workers on there first then the rest. I have to take care of something." Spike said as he walked towards Gilda, Shadow nodded then directed his thieves to the location of the workers and the wounded thieves.
As Spike kneeled over Gilda, she just looked at him with hatred.
"Why'd you do this?"
"To get revenge...I was promised that Dash and those ponies would pay...that's all I wanted."
"You'd let ponies, griffons, zebras and others be frightened of you for your own greed?" Spike asked.
"Ah...it doesn't matter. Well free him... You can't stop us." Gilda said as she slowly passed on and Spike closed her eyes.
"Those whose only pursuit is greed, will be destroyed by there goals." Spike said as he walked away to the carts, which had been loaded with the thieves, wounded, and workers, the lead one had Thorn, Silver and Shadow at the front, as Spike walked to them, Shadow held a hoof out to pull him up.
"You've done it." Shadow said with a smile as Spike was pulled up and the convoy of thieves was ready, they soon left the factory, whose machinery and surplus was burning and jammed.
The next day. At the thieves Brotherhood.
Spike woke up In a hammock, he slowly got out of it and walked through the hallway and down the stairs, he soon reached the main room which was a pub, he spotted Thorn, Shadow and Silver. All at a table, having a laugh.
As Spike walked over to them and have a seat, the three ponies all congratulated him.
"Thanks to you, Manehatten is free!" Shadow said.
"Yes, but I have to go." Spike said.
"So soon?" Silver asked.
"Sorry, but Dove will want to know what's happened." Spike said.
"Well, no matter where you go, your considered a hero here in Manehatten." Thorn said.
"Here here!" Silver said. Spike nodded and headed out of the bar.
He soon hoped on a train to the frontier, once he arrived he headed to Dove's mansion, he soon walked through the door where Dove was sitting next to the fireplace, He then noticed his Drake student arriving.
"Ah, so what's the news?"
"The Templars are ridded from Manehatten."
"You have done well in the last few days."
"It's what I have to do." Spike said.
"We'll get some rest, you train more tomorrow."
Spike did rest, it would be awhile until his tomahawk meet a neck.