Deathstroke, Equestria's Terminator

by UltimateGunner

Chapter 3: Chased by the Law

Cyborg returned to the Watchtower after scanning the energy signatures of the traces of the portals. He headed to the lab to get a more accurate reading, although he had one built into him, he needed better equipment. He plugs in the readings of the energy signatures into some large complex machinery.

"Hmmmm, large traces of magical energy, photonic particles, that's strange..." Cyborg says to himself as he notices something about the last trace of energy. "This energy signature matches that of... the Phantom Zone!" Cyborg quickly removes the data chip and heads toward the meeting room.

"This is Cyborg to Superman and Nightwing. Head back to the meeting room ASAP. I have something y'all might might wanna know about."

"Tell me Luna, what do you think caused the explosion?" asks Celestia, looking toward her sister.

"I am unsure Tia. For all I know it could have been the cause of somepony, or perhaps something else."

"I see. I wonder how the guards are doing. I hope they are-"

"PRINCESS CELESTIA!!!" shouted a royal guard. The sound came from outside their room, and came bursting through a royal guard who was panting. He hastily bowed down at the presence of his two rulers.

"Rise, my subject." said Princess Celestia, allowing the guard to stand. "What brings you here?"

"I have come with information about the incident at Whitetail Woods." Celestia saw that he was a messenger, and he had urgent news to share. "At the blast there was nothing but bare trees and a large crater in the pathway. But we also found strange tracks that matched no pony or animal." Celestia raised her eyebrows at this.

"Continue, please."

"Along the tracks we found Rainbow Dash injured, unconscious, and stuck to a tree with tree sap. We sent two guards to bring her to Ponyville General. We continued to follow the tracks, eventually leading to the train station. The last train was headed for Ponyville first." Celestia knew with the information gathered, there could possibly be a new creature roaming Equestria. She ordered their next set of actions.

"Send more guards along with Shining Armor to patrol Ponyville first, but do not let anyone know what is going on. I do not wish to send my subjects into panic because of one person." The guard saluted.

"Yes your highness. But what should we do if we find the creature?" She thought for a moment and said:

"Attempt to convince him to be brought here. If he declines, use force, but do not hurt him too much."

"Understood, your highness. I will retrieve more guards and be on my way." And with that, he took off to send word of Celestia's orders. Luna spoke up to her sister.

"Tia, are you sure this is a good idea?"

"I am sure Tia. I do not wish it any harm, but I will terminate it if necessary."

Spike was still walking around Ponyville, enjoying whatever fun he could get his hands on.

"Man, this cupcake is delicious!!!!" Spike enthusiastically said as he continued to chow down on it. He finished the cupcake in less than a minute, and with his tongue he licked the cupcake smears off his lips.

"Hmmmm, what should I do next? I could ride the hot air balloon, play with the CMC, or maybe even-"

"Excuse me!" Spike was interrupted by the sound of a royal guard.

"Huh-whuh?" Spike turned to see a female guard call him. The two guards run in front of Spike and quickly question him.

"Sir, do you know where Ponyville General is?" The guard had to look down due to Spike's shortness.

"Ummmm, that way. Why?" Then Spike saw the injured pony they were carrying. "Rainbow Dash? What happened?" The female guard spoke.

"That doesn't matter right now. We have to get her to hospitality, we need you to get her friends." Spike replied awkwardly.

"Ummm, okay..." He ran toward the tree library first.

"Let's get this pony to the hospital." said the other guard. "We have many questions for her when she wakes up."

Deathstroke was still waiting in the caboose. He got bored, so he decided to fiddle around with his weapons. He unloaded one of his pistols, checking the ammo remaining. He then decided to perform an arsenal check. He still had plenty of ammo for his pistols, rifle, and SMGs. He had mini grenades, mines, his nth sword, knife, ammo, and plates. He made some nth metal armor for his hands, which he could hold up to defend against magic. This tactic could be used with his sword too. He then realizes that if he waited to long, he would reach Ponyville and the bags would have to be unloaded, unraveling his presence.

"I should climb onto the roof of this car and enjoy the view." He said to himself. He could arrive at their destination any second, so he moved quickly. He carefully opened the door and climbed up onto the roof without anyone noticing.

"Well that was simpler than I thought." As he climbs on the roof, he stands up and takes a look. Astonished by the view, he sees ahead a small town which was probably Ponyville, a large forest to the side, a castle built on the side of a mountain to his left, and what was literally a city in the sky made out of clouds.

"Damn." Deathstroke was actually impressed by what he saw. "How the Hell am I ever going to explain this to Wintergreen." Then Deathstroke realized that he had to jump off before the train reached Ponyville. He saw a nearby tree up ahead.

"Time to put this to the test." said Deathstroke as he placed the hookshot in his right hand. As the tree gets closer and closer, Deathstroke pulls the trigger on the hookshot and fires the chained spear into the tree bark. Pulling the trigger again, he launched himself toward it. Deathstroke would have smashed himself against the tree if he didn't place his feet first on the tree. Releasing the reel on the hookshot, Deathstroke looked around to see where he head next.

"Guess I'm heading toward that forest..." Deathstroke said to himself as he ran toward it.

Shining Armor was still waiting for the messenger's return. Although he had to follow Celestia's orders, he wanted to return home with his lovely wife. He saw some of the guards playing Tic Tac Toe, some just sitting down on the bench. The bystanders looked at the guards in curiosity. A filly even asked for an autograph from one of the guards, who gratefully accepted.

"We're wasting time here. We should head to Ponyville and-" he paused as he saw the messenger return, with ten guards following.

"Sir!" The messenger saluted.

"What are princesses' orders?"

"She wants us to head to Ponyville and patrol for any unknown creature that could be possibly roaming Equestria. If possible, she wants us to convince it to come to her palace, but use force if necessary." Shining Armor thought about the princesses' orders and if they were sensible or not. But he did not question her commands and went according to plan.

"We'll take the train to Ponyville. We then patrol the town and any nearby areas."

Deathstroke was looking through his binoculars and observing the inhabitants of Ponyville. Earlier he reached the forest and climbed up a tree to use as a vantage point.

"What are those marks on their rear ends, some kind of tatoo?" Deathstroke asks himself, still having many questions to be answered on pony civilization. "Whatever those marks are, most of these ponies seem to have 'em." He continued to look around.

"A marketplace," he zoomed in to get a closer look. "Their currency seems to be similar to ours." He also saw a hospital in the distance, and a store which literally sold nothing but quills and couches. He zoomed in on one of the hospital windows and saw the rainbow colored pony he fought before. She had a very confused face.

"If I ever befriend these sentient horses," he started with sarcasm in his voice. " Then I have I a lot of explaining for Rainbow butt over there." he says humorously.

"Speaking of which, I wonder how she's doing?"

"What the hay is going on?" Rainbow Dash was very confused. Not only was her wing broken, but she had no idea how it happened. Her five friends, specifically Twilight, were bombarding her with questions, most of which she failed to answer.

"You don't remember anything?" Twilight asked, being the questioning pony she was. "Not even when you helped me clean up my house?"

"No, I was heading toward your house to help you clean up!" The two guards that were waiting outside became impatient and came barging in.

"Step aside, we will proceed with the questioning." said one of the guards in a harsh tone. Fluttershy hid behind her mane and tail in fear. Applejack was about to protest, but a glare from the guard stopped her. In disgust, the five ponies walked away from Rainbow Dash, who was not in a good mood.

"Do you recall fighting anyone?" the guard asked very strictly.

"No."

"Do you recall seeing an unknown creature?"

"No."

"DO YOU RECALL ANYTHING FROM THE PAST HOUR?" The guard was getting very frustrated with Rainbow Dash.

"NO NO NO!!! I DON'T REMEMBER ANYTHING ALRIGHT!?" The guard was boiling mad. Before he did anything stupid, the female guard put her hoof on his shoulder. The guard's eyes returned back to normal, and he just sighed. The female guard spoke to the six ponies.

"We ummm, have business to attend to." She wasn't as stern as the other guards, especially with her voice. "You five should stay with her for awhile."

"Okay sir, or ermm miss..." Applejack replied in an akward tone, and with that the guards left the room. There were a few moments of silence, until Pinkie broke them.

"Soooooooooooo, does anyone want a cupcake?"

"PINKIE!!!" They all shouted in unison.

Deathstroke was snickering at the whole scene, even though he didn't hear it. During the scene he also learned that there were ponies who wore armor.

"Soldiers." he said in his head. "I knew someone had to wear that armor I found." He then zoomed out and observed the town more, and sees more guards talking to the bystander ponies. He also sees a slightly larger soldier leading a squad of ten men toward the forest he's in.

"Looks like they've discovered my existence." he said out loud. "What they don't know is anything. About me." He decided to use that to his advantage. He formed a plan in his head to deal with these soldiers. He also found a way to get some answers.

Shining Armor and his men arrived at the entrance of the Everfree Forest. They decided that this was a good place for the creature to hide, and it was worth investigating. As they entered, one of the guards spoke up.

"Sir! Are you sure this is a good idea?" Shining Armor could tell he was nervous about entering the forest.

"I am sure. But remember to keep all sides on watch." They went deeper into the forest, looking in all directions. All of them were very courageous, execpt for one.

"AHHHH!" Everyone looked at him. "Oh, it was just a branch." Shining Armor and a few of the other guards facehoofed.

"JUST keep moving soldier."

"A-Alright sir..." They kept walking, hoping they would find whatever was hiding in the forest, if it even was in it. But the more and more they traveled, the more it seemed like there was no creature to find.

"Shining Armor sir. I do not believe it is here. Perhaps we should leave." Shining Armor looked around one last time, and when he was sure,

"Alright men, let's head on out." They all started heading to the exit, and the nervous guard sighed in relief. But in the distance, a creature standing on two legs wearing a half-orange half-black masked watched in the shadows. It quietly made an evil laugh, then leaped to some more branches.

Shining Armor was rather disappointed that he found nothing. Looking down, he thought about how the creature might affect Equestria. He hoped it wouldn't take over the land, or anything bad like that. He wanted-

"Agh!" Shining Armor's train of thought was interrupted by the sound of one of his men screaming in pain. Shining Armor quickly turned around.

"Soldier, are you..." Shining Armor saw that he was talking to no one. The guard disappeared right after the noise. Shining Armor nervously looked around.

"Hnnnnnng!" Another guard went missing just before Shining Armor turned.

"I knew this was a bad idea!" The very nervous guard was now trembling.

"Ack!" There went another guard. Shining Armor just couldn't see where the guards went, he was a always a fraction of a second late.

"Huuuuuuck!"

*Gag*

*Choke*

"Erccck!"

Soon, there were all but four guards left, including Shining Armor and the fearful guard. All of them were bouncing their heads around and sweating like crazy. Then suddenly something landed in front of them, slowly standing up. What Shining Armor and his men saw intrigued them.

A monkey-like creature standing on two legs had dragon-like claws, some odd contents it was carrying, a lot of armor, and a mask on its face with a strange design. But what it was holding in its hand shocked them even more. In the creature's right hand was the helmet of one of Shining Armor's men. It had some blood on it, and it was cracked. The creature bowled the helmet over to him, stopping at his hoof. The sight of the bloody and cracked helmet angered him greatly.

"Don't worry I didn't kill them." the creature said, with little humor in his voice. The fact that the creature spoke Equestrian shocked the men even more. "I just put them in a long coma." Shining Armor didn't know whether it was telling the truth or not, but that didn't matter. It messed with the wrong ponies, and he was determined to make it pay.

"SHOOT HIM DOWN MEN!!!" Shining Armor shouted. The three other guards did as he said, even the fearful one. They charged magical energy into their horns, preparing to fire. Once the energy built up, they shot magical beams straight at the creature.

Deathstroke's plan went perfectly, he took out most of the guards quietly, leaving four of them left. Dealing with them head on was also part of his plan, this way he could learn how these creatures attacked. He learned that the hard way when beams of magic were shot at him. However, his improved reflexes allowed him to pull up his hands in time to block the three beams with his nth metal armor plates equipped on his hands. He then lowered his hands and made a quote:

"You'll have to do better than that to take me down. You're tactics are one-dimensional." he stated.

"Gee, well thanks for the tip coach!" Shining Armor shouted sarcastically. "Men! keep firing!" The other guards started firing the beams like a machine gun. Deathstroke quickly ran behind cover and pulled out his SMGs.

"As much as I like guns, I'm never going to gain anyone's trust if I kill." he said to himself in his head. He peeked and saw that they were slowly approaching. He looked around to see if there's anything he could use. Up above he sees some large branches.

"Wait for it...." Once the guards were under the branches, Deathstroke rolls out from behind cover and fires at the branches. Many of them fall and take out one guard. The other guard, who was too distracted by the foliage, didn't see Deathstroke pull out his sword and run for him. He made a sword flip, splicing the guard's front armor and knocking him out. The blow wasn't fatal, fortunately for the guard. Deathstroke turned to see Shining Armor's horn glow. He notices the armor he's wearing. It looked exactly like the one he saw on the train, the only difference were the pictures that were painted on it.

"Probably represents the military they have here." Deathstroke answered in his head, as he saw the familiar markings on the armor glow. Soon, the whole armor glowed a light bluish color. He decided to see how strong the armor was by firing some normal rounds at it with his SMGs. Shining Armor was knocked back a little, but other than that, the armor was practically okay.

"You cannot hope to defeat me creature! I am invulnerable to all your attacks!" Shining Armor shouted with much confidence in victory.

"Impressive armor. But it does have its flaws." replied Deathstroke, pulling out his pistols which he loaded with nth metal bullets. As Shining Armor charged him, he pointed to a specific spot on the armor.

"BANG!" The bullet flew straight into the armor, unaffected by the magical amplification and piercing Shining Armor's leg.

"AGHHH!" Shining Armor stopped charging and fell to his injured leg. Deathstroke shot the sphere in which the energy spread. He learned this back on the train in the caboose, where he analyzed the armor, and found some spots where if an nth bullet pierced, the magical amplification would cease to hold. The armor Shining Armor was wearing stopped glowing and turned back to regular titanium. Deathstroke approached him and crouched down.

"I'd love to stick around, but I can't stay any longer. Tell your precious ruler, I'm resisting arrest." Deathstroke's voice echoed into Shining Armor's ears.

"H-How did you-"

"BONK!" He was cut off by Deathstroke's rifle butt meeting his face. He flew back quite a few feet. Deathstroke got up, and without looking behind him, caught the guard charging him from behind.

"Don't think I lost count you fool." Deathstroke said, as he turned to the guard who was now trembling in fear. "You and I have to talk." The guard just begged for his life.

"P-Please don't hurt me!!!"

"Then you'll cooperate with me." Deathstroke states, throwing him onto the ground. "answer my questions, and I won't kill you."

"Anything you say sir!!!"

"Who rules this land?"

"Princess Celestia and Princess Luna! They are sisters, Celestia controls the sun and Luna controls the moon sir!"

"Sisters?" he asks himself in his head. "There's no king or queen, and they control the sun and moon?" Apparently the rulers literally controlled some aspects of life as well. He continued with the questions, planning to feed off as much information as possible.

"Did anyone attempt a portal spell of some sort lately?"

"Not that I know of sir!"

"Damn." It appeared finding the cause of the portal was more difficult than expected.

"What did Celestia order lately?" That question made the guard stutter.

"Wh-What do you-"

"Answer me!" Deathstroke pulled out his sword as a threat.

"AH-uh she ordered a set of prototype weapons!"

"Well why!?" The guard stuttered even more.

"W-We are currently in conflict with the Griffon Kingdom! She made weapons and armor for us to try out in preparation of war, like Shining Armor!" Deathstroke found out why Celestia order was so important, and the captain's ridiculous name. But he still felt like he was missing something. Unfortunately, he didn't know how to question the guard about that topic. He pressed forward with some other questions.

"What are those marks on your butts?"

"C-Cutie Marks s-sir! Ponies get them when they learn their special talent, s-sir!"

"Cutie Marks? Give me a break." Deathstroke mentally said, believing these "Cutie Marks" had a better meaning.

"What's the name of this land?"

"Equestria sir!"

"Agaaaaaaaain, with the horse puns." Deathstroke would have to ask Celestia why she's into puns, if he ever gets the chance. "Well give me a brief history of Equestria." The guard told him about the many enemies Equestria faced, Nightmare Moon, Discord, Queen Chrysalis, and King Sombra. He told him about how six ponies, Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, which he fought some time ago, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie always saved the day, usually with magical artifacts called the Elements of Harmony. He told him how important they were, and also included how Twilight is Shining Armor's sister, and Princess Cadence, who was apparently Shining Armor's wife.

Deathstroke took a bit to absorb the information he just learned, and he pulled out the same needle he used on Rainbow Dash and stabbed it into the guard's leg.

"OW!!! What did you-" *Snore* The needle took effect faster than he expected.

"Well, that was weird. I better go." said Deathstroke as he walked in the opposite direction, heading deeper into the woods.