Author's Notes:
Thanks to Deadinlight for beta-reading and helping me edit
I added a bit of a descriptor for the unicorn stallion at the end
Chapter Two: Bank Robbery!/Meeting More Players
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“The police know I was there. That’s fine it is not like I was hiding it. But it won’t be long before the princesses send their respective ponies after me, I better be ready…”
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Shadow Eyes sat in her apartment and sighed, She knew it wouldn’t be long before she had to start dodging Celestia’s and Luna’s ponies again, but she wasn’t done yet, she was going to make this city safe again, no matter what it took. Even if that meant that she would have to fight against ESIS and the rest of Equestria alongside the criminals she fought…
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Shadow Eyes once again in her disguise, headed out into the city she needed to get food for the week, something other than delivery, she might have an exceeding amount of surplus funds, that did not mean however it was infinite, nor did it mean that she needed to get a real job in the future. Taking in her surroundings, Shadow Eyes figured it was safe enough to drop her disguise and hunt for a little bit, she was beginning to think she was a hunter more than a vigilante and she knew this was dangerous, it was not like she was a bounty hunter that was hunting bounties with the approval of the crown, no she was killing and maiming criminals for simple crimes, she could rationalize it away as her or them but it didn’t change the fact that she had killed ponies that could have changed their ways! Shaking her head clear of any conflicting thoughts, Shadow Eyes went on patrol completely intent on punishing more of the criminals she came across…
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Shadow Eyes hated when ponies robbed places and not other ponies, Ponies she could hide from, but she couldn’t effectively hide when she had to leave out the way she came in, which leads to what was happening right now, four ponies were holding up a bank in downtown Manehatten. Cursing her luck she slipped into the building, after cracking the door enough for her magic to give her a clear image of the room. As soon the pony who was watching the door, a unicorn stallion, turned away, she slipped in…
Once the mare was in she hid herself around a corner before releasing a glamor she generally kept cast on herself when she was outside of her disguise, a sort of notice-me-not spell, not an invisibility spell, but literally a spell that makes ponies not want to notice the pony who had the spell cast on them.
“I hate bank robbers… Now I have to figure out how to get out of here once I am finished…” Shadow Eyes said to herself as she charged a spell to disable the unicorn stallion when she went wide-eyed and jumped completely in view of both the door and the unicorn stallion, the next moment the spot she was in exploded as a bolt of lightning hit where she had been hiding, a pegasus stallion tsked as he moved the cloud he had used to another position.
“So the great defender comes calling!” said the unicorn stallion as he shot a blast of magic at Shadow Eyes. The mare, seeing a giant blur in her magical field, jumped back just in time for the blast to hit the ground exploding it and sending chunks in all directions, some of which flew towards Shadow Eyes. With a growl Shadow Eyes’ magic aura around her horn started to bubble with dark magic. A bolt of black colored lightning shot at the unicorn who hid behind a counter and laughed at her. “What are you going to do when the guard breaks in here? Ask them to let you leave? You know they are going to arrest you, if you are lucky!” Shadow Eyes merely threw another blast of black lightning at the unicorn before turning to the pegasus who was about to send another bolt of lightning at her and sent a ball of fire at him, unlike the fire she would normally cast, this fire was green and black, dark magic fire… The pegasus was forced to dodge as his cloud dissipated from the heat of the fire. The blind mare wasn’t finished as she sent a black colored crystal at the pegasus making him dodge again this time a little closer to the ground.
“You’re mine” said Shadow Eyes before she summoned a bolt of lightning from the air itself striking the stallion out of the air, his body twitching as he crashed to the ground. She snorted before sending a new bolt of lightning at the unicorn keeping him hiding from her as his fellows came running out of the vault to see what the trouble was and they were revealed to be another set of pegasus and unicorn stallions.
“What is-it’s Shadow Eyes! Kill her!” said the new unicorn, his body covered in clothes and his face by a mask, as he grabbed the bag of bits they had stolen from the vault and teleported out of the bank and Shadow Eyes gritted her teeth as the remaining stallions started stalking her and she growled as the turned her head towards the unicorn and jerked her head. At first nothing happened and the stallions laughed at her before the pegasus started gurgling and fell to the ground pawing at his neck before a crystal started to pierce through the roof of his head and his eyes rolled back as he stopped breathing and bits of skull started falling off of what was now a giant red crystal. Shadow Eyes’ horn flashed and the unicorn frowned at her before the unicorn opened his mouth to ask what she did, but before he got the change his lips started to sag and the top of his head started to slide off. The stallion fell down dead as his brain fell out of his skull.
Running to the back of the bank to where the hostages were and cast her Notice-Me-Not spell, the fact Shadow Eyes was there had not disappeared from the knowledge of the guards that burst in. The guard knew when they burst in was that the leader of the bank robbers got away, and the other perpetrators were either dead or in the case of the other pegasus, unable to escape, due to having his nerves fried from the lightning bolt that struck him. When they got to the vault, which was where the hostages were being kept, they looked for Shadow Eyes as they led the hostages out, not realizing that they had just let the wanted mare out, her spell working perfectly…
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“Yes, my princess, Shadow Eyes has been spotted, no, she hasn’t been apprehended” said a unicorn stallion as he spoke into a phone. “I’ll do my best princess. No, I will make sure your sister doesn’t find out to the best of my ability… Long live the sun” hanging up the stallion sighed. “Where are you Shadow Eyes? We can’t protect you if we can’t find you…”
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“Princess, we haven’t caught the Tenebrosus Magus yet. No, we won’t grant her mercy, as soon as we find her, we’ll kill her. As you say, Long live the night” said a bat pony as she gave her report. “It is long past time this Tenebrosus Magus was killed…”
“Perhaps, but there is nothing we can do” said a unicorn stallion as he trotted up to the bat pony mare and nibbled on her ear. “Forgive me, night mistress, but my partner and I have a previous engagement that she promised me” growled the stallion as he took the phone and hung it up while using his magic to close the curtains of the room they were staying in as the mare chuckled and pressed her lips to his.
“Somepony is eager” said the mare and the stallion growled lightly as she trotted around him her tail flicking him on the nose, “Calm yourself, Moonlit, otherwise you are not going to get anything” she added.
“As you say, Glory Star” growled Moonlit before he nipped at her flanks causing the mare to giggle as she leapt onto the bed and gave the unicorn stallion a ‘come hither’ look…
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“And in other news, Manehatten has a new hero, in the form of a wanted mare! This mare is wanted in connection of four murders within Manehatten city limits, but those murders were of ponies caught in the act of committing a crime! She maybe a wanted mare, but if she ever needs help, I hope the good ponies of this city protect her” said a news anchor as a picture of Shadow Eyes showed itself on the screen
“Damn Shadow Eyes, she should have just stayed out of it!” said the unicorn stallion that had gotten away from bank earlier as he watched the news, he had orange fur and a brown mane. Gritting his teeth he threw his remote and it bounced harmlessly off the wall. Sighing he got up and turned off the TV as there was a knock at his door. Getting up and walking to the door he opened it to reveal Blinding Sunrise, the cute blind mare from next door.
“Is everything alright?” asked Shadow Eyes as she ‘looked’ at the stallion in front of her, little did she know he was the stallion from before, and the stallion just smiled.
“I’m alright I was just upset at some news I heard, what are you up to?” asked the stallion and Blinding Sunrise blushed and dug at the ground nervously, the stallion before her was very attractive, in a roguish way, at least he thought so.
Shadow Eyes was blushing because she did think he was attractive, but not in a way she would pursue a relationship. Well it did not matter, she wasn’t going to—
“Do you want to go out some time? I just got a raise and I would love to celebrate with a cute mare like yourself” Shadow Eyes thought about it for a minute and nodded.
“Sure, when would you like to meet up?” she asked and the stallion grinned before giving her a date and time. Well she wasn’t pursuing him, he was pursuing her! That’s a nice change of pace…