> Assassins's Creed Human Revolution
>  by Brotherhoof12
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> First blood
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[Anon view 3rd person]

One of the things you hated most of all about the Grand Galloping Gala was always wearing those nooses they call ties. You can also hate the major fact that you see Humans with collars on their necks pulling chariots with ponies wearing fancy clothes while they use the labor of the innocent. You should be grateful for your master to call a pony taxi instead of making you pull the chariot instead. Filthy Rich is his name, owning most of all trading rights in Equestria, but for me and all the others humans you have to call him "Master". He's not bad like the other pony snobs living in Canterlot that treat their human's with disrespect or as pets, the one you truly despise is his daughter; Diamond Tiara. He bought you when you were just a baby, not even knowing your parents or where you were born; his only reason is because he wanted to stop his spoiled brat from wanting one for her celebration party of her cutie mark appearing.

"Hey stupid, did you hear me?" And that same stupid filly was right across from you kicking your shin to get you to look at her.

*Sigh* "Yes, milady?" You asked reluctantly.

"Next time if you don't respond quicker I'll tell my daddy to return you to whatever back water dump you were born in."

Over the years of her empty threats, you've learned that her threats to have her father send you back was just one of her tactics to make you scared shitless just like when she did back when you were still a child. The past times you were younger she would always tell you these hurtful things so she can watch you beg for forgiveness while she just watched with a sick smile. Luckily her father can always set things straight and keep his beast of a daughter tamed and docile, when he's around.

"Now, now Diamond, don't start this again. I already told you to stop harassing him." Your master looked at you with an understanding look since both of you had been in this routine with her for years.

"We are not going to send Anonymous back; he's part of the family so please play nice."

"Thank you, Master." you said, bowing your head to him.

"You can stop the formal talk Anon, when we are not in public you can call me Phil."

Many human slaves that are owned by ponies are forced to respect them, but you cannot help but show sincere respect for Phil and his kindness.

"Thank you, Phil." You said.

His name may seem out of character for his personality, but that just makes him more interesting than the other equines.

*Knock-Knock* "Almost nearing your destination, Sir." Said the driver out of the front window.

You, Diamond, and Phil looked out the window to see a bright castle at the side of a large mountain and watch as Pegasai, Earth Pony, and Unicorns flock there to meet their powerful princesses, not to mention to trade their humans for other humans for experimenting with whatever strikes their fancy. Just thinking about it almost makes your rage boil over and your stomach twist in disgust of what you will see behind closed doors.

"It's a shame Anon, as soon as we set foot in the entrance you will be escorted to the back of the castle to be with the other humans." Phil said sadly, even though Diamond was smiling at my dilemma.

You should be sad knowing that even at the day of a celebration like this you will not be able to attend it, but behind those feelings is relief for the moment of space between you and your Master, so that you may proceed to work.

It cost a lot of lives and bits to have a chance to gain information on where a Templar can be alone in the castle, especially since this is a public celebration full of guests.  Luckily your team is already there to get things started before you arrive.As the castle soon became large  you began to have growing doubts on how successful the kill will be. You have no way of knowing if you will go unnoticed by the guards or if the other slaves will be loyal enough to not sell you out. The escape route is only successful if you have a clean kill and have succeeded in hiding all evidence of your presence there.

"Don't worry Phil; I'm sure I will find something productive to do while I'm alone."

[Somewhere else]

At the entrance of the castle were lines of chariots dropping off ponies, while the tired humans who drove them were sent to the back of the castle and left to their own devices, some humans dressed just as fancy as their ponies only to be traded by their masters.

"I'm sorry ladies. but I must ask to hand over your property to us." The guard at the entrance announced.

"And I'm saying that I will not let ponies I don't know take away our children from us!" Shouted an ivory unicorn holding a young teen in her arms, this is the first time she brought her son and she would not want his time being wasted holed up in some basement while she partied at this grand event.

"If you think I will just give up my little brother that easily then you have another thing coming" Protested an orange cowpony standing in front of her brother to show how protective she is.

"I don't want to have my child be with dangerous humans all by himself, he'll be completely lost without me." Said the yellow distraught mare holding her son who is hiding his face not to show how scared he is, but to only hide how embarrassed his mothers affection makes him.

"Again, I must take your property or else you will not enter." Warned the Guard, just to prove his statement a large amount of shouting behind the group of mares to move on already.

"Are you sure you can't let these humans come with us?" Asked Princess Twilight trying to ease the tension between her friends and the guard, hopefully she can use her status to fix this problem.

"If you are saying that they are put for trade in the castle then you must sign theses papers and tag them for registration." He turned and reached his hand out so the other guard from the other side of the entrance gave him the papers, and showed to them.

*Gasp* "Trade off my son to some tramp! How dare you, you brute!" Rarity slapped the forms out of his hands causing a roar of other ponies to be more frustrated for holding up the line to enter.

*Sigh* "Ring the bell." He said.

The same guard who gave him the paper, reached behind his belt to take out a silver bell, and rang it several times to signal the cleaners.

As the final ring sounded maids and butlers arrived out of know where surprising the mares and their children for how quickly they came at the sound of the small bell. With a quick rush of hands picking all papers one of the human servants gave the forms back to the guard's hand, bowed at the mares, and left with all the other human cleaners.

"If you are not signing them for trade than I am afraid you must hand them over so they can be with the rest of their kind." Told the guard followed by the chorus of shouting from other ponies to pressure them to make the only choice.

Twilight looked her friends still protesting to hand over their humans and to the enraged guest still waiting to enter. With only a single option left she turned to her friends again and told them.

"I'm sorry, but it seems that being a princess has its limits after all."

The three distraught mares looked at their family members to see what they want so they won't feel guilty later. With exchanged glances the boys nodded their heads in unison for their answer.

"Ok Twi, you take them."

"Don't worry Applejack; Jonathon will be safe with the rest of his kind." Twilight assured her.

"Oh! My beautiful little boy! Please be ok while mommy is gone." 

"Lighten up Rarity, Michael's going to be fine you worry too much." Rainbow Dash replied.

"I just hope my little one will be alright while I'm not with him."

"Don't worry shy! Terry will be just fine, heck I'm sure he'll make new friends when we're gone." Spoke the pink hyper pony.

"Pinkie and Rainbow are right, they will be safely escorted to where all the humans are being held and will not have any harm done to them right?" Twilight asked the guard on duty.

"They will be watched until the gala is done and will be returned safely." Said the guard still waiting for their choice.

Rarity was the first to hand her son to the guard, then Fluttershy, and then Applejack with her little brother.

"Wait!" Applejack shouted, running to her brother and hearing a loud groan from the other guest behind her for halting the line.

"Take this Jonah." Applejack took off her hat and put it on his head covering most of his face.

"Hurry up Applejack, we're holding the line!" Rainbow Dash yelled.

"I'm coming hold your horses!"

"Mommy will be back darling wait till I return!"

"Please be save Terry, I love you!" 

"Don't get to any trouble, you hear?"

With a final wave goodbye from their mothers the three boys were sent all the back at the castle. When the guard in front told them to stop, walked toward two other guards at the back entrance, and spoke..

"These humans are to be held with great care and not harmed.” The day guard said.

"Why? It's just a bunch of humans, how come they get the special treatment?" asked the night guard.

"They are owned by the former elements of harmony, that's why." he replied.

"Oh shit! Which of these humans are owned by the elements?”

"Honesty, generosity, and kindness so make sure they don't have a scratch on them." with a quick salute he turned around and walked back to meet with his partner at the front entrance.

"This way humans." Said a unicorn night guard opening the door for them so they can enter inside with the rest, he would rather just trade them off like all the other ponies would, but if it’s the element of harmony's humans than selling them would be much wiser.

Terry entered first alongside Michael leaving only Jonah still in place in front of the entrance.

"Hey, did I not tell you to get inside!" Shouted the unicorn guard, he was about to strike the human before his partner stopped him.

"Don't worry, I'll set him straight you get the other two ready for the boss to sell, pretty sure those ponies won't notice while their separated." Said the pegasus guard grabbing Jonah’s arm, taking him to a darker part behind the castle he threw Jonah on the ground and said.

"You know I was surprised to hear your owner was a former bearer of the element of harmony, I especially liked honesty the most, it's going to be a real shame to tell her that you ran away leaving her to be all sad, but don't worry I will make sure I tried to stop you, and be there for her at her hour of need." Told night guard.

Jonah stayed silent after he was finished with his scheme to bed his sister, and mumbled out a sentence the guard could not hear from him.

"....."

"What's the matter kid, afraid? you should be."

"...... Say that to my face."

"What?"

Jonah was still hiding his face with his sister's hat and told the guard again much louder.

"Say that to my face."

Playing along with the human, the guard kneeled down and slowly spoke to him.

"I'll put it bluntly; I'm going to Fu-uck!" 

As soon as he was about to finish his sentence, a long thin blade was now shoved under the guard's chin with the tip of the blade going through the helmet. Tacking Jonah's hidden blade out of the guard's head he got up from the ground, leaving the body to twitch for a few moments before it finally stopped moving.

"Yeah, that's what I thought." said Jonah.

By the time he arrived and was ready for a fight he spotted Michael kneeling next to the wall tinkering with his hidden mini crossbow, spotting Jonah he got off the wall he walked near the surprised teen trying to find the other guard.

"Took you long enough, we thought that he killed you." Michael said.

"It's going to take a lot more to kill me. Where's Terry and the guard?"

"Over here." Terry closed the door to reveal himself next to the dead guard on the floor with no trace of any blood wounds on the body.

"I see you have your special friend to take care of the work, Terry." Jonah said, looking at the corpse.

As soon as Terry stepped away from the body a dark brown snake slithered out of the guards armor, into Terry's left pant leg, and exited out of his left sleeve showing just its head.

"I just couldn't leave her alone at home, she is very scared when she's alone." said Terry petting one of the top ten most deadly snakes in the world.

"Sure she is, any way we need to hide this body and get to our contact."

"What about that guy called Anon, isn’t he supposed to lead us to where the Templar should be?" Michael asked, dragging the corpse away from open view.

"He'll catch up soon; right now we need to get to our contact before we lose our one chance for some answers." Jonah opened the door, leaving it open for Michael and terry to enter, and closed it shut.

For what seemed like forever they have walked on what appears to be limitless stairs with no signs of it ever ending, they can't even tell what's happening outside due to the fact that there is no windows anywhere in sight. As their endless walking finally sees a metal door, with a pad lock on the handle. Looking back to Michael and terry if they have the keys to the second door, Michael moved his head side to side as a reply for Jonah, he looked at Terry who also seems clueless about the key but his pet snake's tale emerged out of his right sleeve with the keys wrapped around her tale.

"Thanks, Sarah." Terry took the keys from his snake, unlocked the door, and opened it so he and his friends can enter.

"Holy crap." Michael said with a wide eyed look at what is in front of them.

The room they entered was indeed full of human slaves, but instead of a large group put all together was instead separated in large cages with iron shackles chaining them to the wall.

"Is this supposed to be their way of taking care of them? This is so much worse than we thought." Jonah says looking at the miserable faces of the chained slaves.

"Which is why we need the target you’re looking for to be dead." A disembodied voice told the three boys.

Across the room in a dark corner in the left side of the opposite door revealed a human maid looking at the group of boys with cold steely eyes that shows no single emotion that matches her expressionless face.

"Do you know where we're supposed to go?" Asked Jonah.

"Two floors above this lower chamber is where your target is, he is also the reason why all the humans are chained and illegally traded without the consent of the owners." Raising her arm to the cages showed that there was missing humans that were taken against their will including a few blood spatters on the floor.

"How did the princesses not get any complaints of missing humans? Surely some pony nobles care about their humans?" Terry said trying to figure how this has been going on for so long without some mistakes for this place to be unknown.

"The reason is princess Celestia's nephew Blueblood, he secretly took over the care of the slaves whenever a public gathering happens like the Gala, he takes the most promising humans from the nobles, and trades them off while they cover up missing people by saying that they were runaways or killed for acting hostile." Answered the maid.

"Which is why the assassins were called in to kill him right?" Asked Michael.

"Yes and no, yes because of the horrifying acts against humans, and the same time not for the same reason."

"Then why are we killing this pompous douche in the first place?" Jonah clutched his fists with anger for seeing the sight before him, as well as the confusing reason for why they were assigned in the first place.

"Because he’s arrogant enough to reveal himself to be a Templar." said the maid.

A silence filled the air when they heard who the prince is gave them only one word to say at the same time

" What!?"

"It was during his drunk escapades that he told me while I was in bed with him a few nights ago giving the reason why this information is important."

Again the boys were silent from her reason as to why they’re here, but it was only Terry who asked the uncomfortable question all three of them had in mind.

"Um, sorry if this sounds offensive, and very mean, but are you a-"

"Personal pleasure slave of Blueblood, I'm also the fifth maid to serve him and has been serving the prince for over two years."

"Sounds a bit short for a maid, what happened to the other four before you?" asked Jonah.

"As you can tell from the cages the maids did not serve to the his needs and was quickly traded off to other nobles to play with, much to the displeasure of the higher ups, they were also some of the spies that fed info to the revolutionaries about the corrupt noble's plans to win the war."

"So you want us to kill the prince before he remembers what he spoke to you, and kills you like the rest right?" Michael spoke up after her explanation about why she needed them.

"If we kill him and that's a big if , then will there be a chance to set these people free?" he asked her.

"If a chance you do kill him and you will  kill Blueblood with my help, then you can find the key to unlock them, and set them free." she replied.

Both Terry and Jonah smiled from the positive outcome for the death of Blueblood, and was eager to start before the last person arrives. But Michael did not share the same as the rest of his friends and still stayed silent for the maid to add a negative response to the positive feedback she produced.

"However....." Michael trailed off so she will finish it for her.

"However, I may know where Blueblood is but I do not know where  he puts the key's to unlock the cell doors." That once happy moment was soon killed off when she told them the bad news.

"So what? We just need to keep him alive, force him to tell us where he put the keys, free the prisoners, and escape what's so hard about that?" Jonah asked.

"Then how do we sneak all these people from the castle?" Terry said.

"You all can think about it after you suit up." She walked out of the prison and entered with a cart full of used cloths and pushed it to the young men and said. "Your cloths are below so you can ditch the tuxedos with something more to your liking."

Jonah reached inside the cart, parted the random cloths, grabbed a large brown coat and walked to a corner to undress. The second to reach the inside the clothes was Terry gently lifting each cloth, reaching inside to get a deep green coat much thinner than the coat Jonah was carrying and walked to another corner to undress but with much more nervousness since a older woman was still in the room. Michael stayed in place, not going near the dirty hamper, he stretched his neck out to see what's inside than quickly reeled back, pinching his nose from the stench of all the used garments.

"I'm terribly sorry ma'am, but I will not be joining my friends on the mission." Michael takes stepping away from the bin.

"Great what is it this time,Mike?" asked Jonah stepping out of the corner, fully dressed in his assassins gear, his suit wadded up and thrown inside the cart.

"I will not let my mother's hand sewn suit be tossed in with the dirty and grimy cloths inside an even dirtier basket."

"Then why don't you just give it to her so she will keep it clean?" asked Terry in his green assassin's gear, his pet snake popping out of his hood than slithered her tongue at Michael and went back in inside Terry's clothing where it’s safe and warm. Terry gave his folded suit to her than looked back at Michael still not budging a single inch from where he's standing.

*Gasp* "My mother is very perceptive and can see prints on her child's belongings especially if it's her son that is being touched by other mares." Michael flicked his head making his long black hair to fling midair like so many super models do when they try on his mother’s fashion line.

"I don't have time for this shit, you three settle this stupid dispute I have to get the final piece for the plan to work." she turned around and exited out the door. Leaving two fully dressed teen assassins and one not dressed spoiled assassin still arguing about fashion over the lives of desperate people held against their will. She could only hope that the leader of this rowdy bunch of hormones called assassins will be here soon.

[Anon view 1st person]

"I'm bored out of my skull, dad!" Yelled the obnoxious young mare kicking my shin to pass the time, trying to piss me the fuck off.

"Excuse me driver, what is the hold up?" Phil asked the stallion.

"A group of mares with three young humans holding up the line for us to enter the castle sir, we might be here for a while."

*Sigh* "seems we'll have to hoof it from here kids," Taking his hand in side his left breast pocket he pulled out a large burlap sack with bits *clinking* as he gives the whole bag to the driver, many ponies were surprised for Mr. Rich's generosity surprising them including the taxi driver was no different. "Keep the change, you earned it."

"T-thank you so much, sir. Thanks you, thank you very much!"

Phil nodded at the driver, opened the door and exited out to the cool breeze from the young night sky. Taking the opposite door I stepped on the gravel road leading to the castle, turned back to the waiting Diamond, extended my hand toward her in case she might slip from the steps and injure herself. And i don't want that to happen to her most of all, at least not in front of her father.

*humph* "As if, monkey!" Slapping my hand away, she exited to where her father is and walked with her father at the same pace to the castle.

"A piece of work that mare, isn't she young lad?" Asked the driver, counting his bits from my master.

"Underworld itself trembles in fear for when she inherits my master's cooperation." A shiver ran down my spine just thinking of caller her master made me think about just putting a musket in my brain then serve her till death.

As we were nearing the castle by walking I see snobby nobles still in their fancy chariots shouting at their human slaves for blaming them to not moving instead of just blaming it on the group of mares stopping the line in the first place. Reaching the gala by foot we started to hear a loud chorus of cheers it the front entrance, seeing up close made it easier to describe who were the ponies that caused such a problem was none other than the former elements of harmony. Each was in their regal dresses showing their beautiful curves, shining manes, and the most to be noticed was none other than the new alicorn Twilight sparkle, the princess of friendship. The group proceeded to enter before the former element of honesty going to a blond haired human teen being escorted with two more humans; she put her cowpony hat on his head, went back to her friends and was gone from sight when they entered the castle. Walking down the long red carpet to the two day guards, Phil motioned me to his side, asked them to send me to the back of the castle and entered with his daughter to the party without me. I'm not saying that being walked down a dark side of the castle is appealing or anything it’s that I was waiting for the opportunity to make my move to kill this guard so I can meet up with my group after the long delay, being in the line made me a bit anxious for some action.

"Sir, please wait!" the guard behind me told me to stop walking at stand where I am while he talks to whoever stopped us. Looking over my shoulder I see a maid speaking to the guard before he told her something I couldn't make out what he was saying but left me alone with the maid, whatever she said to him must have been important if he would leave humans unattended and on castle grounds for that matter.

"If you would kill him and hide his body it would make his partner notice his absence. That will cost not only the mission but your life and the other assassins waiting for you, did the years of teaching you my skills as a silent killer not tame your blood lust." Even when she was speaking behind my head I could remember that voice anywhere. Turning to see her I came face to face with a sharp blade pointed right between my eyes, trailing down the blade to the slender light brown hand from a familiar face I thought I would never see again.

"It leaves you open for another person to hide their killing intent."

"Hello to you to, mentor."

"For my former student being a full fledged assassin your still wet behind the ears." She retracted the blade from her hand, concealing inside her sleeve and walked in front of me to follow her.

"Are the rest of the team there?" I asked.

"If you mean Terry, Michael, and Jonah they are already here, geared up, briefed about who to kill and are waiting for you to do the same." she informed me.

"So are you going to tell me who I'm about to finish off?"

"Prince Blueblood is your target, an important one for that matter since he is a Templar with important info that can give the revolutionist army an advantage in the war."

"And I suppose you got this by your regular talents, right?"

"You mean sleeping with the enemy? Than you’re not far off Anon, you of all people should understand since I passed all my knowledge to you."

Her reason was understandable because I was under her wing when I was still a green horn when I was recruited a year after I was adopted by my master. But to be bedding Blueblood just made it more disgusting then it already is, she must have seen my disgusted face from her reply and said to me.

"Don't give me that look, Anon, someday you'll do the same line of work like me, your my student after all."

We walked in silence after that comment for some time before we reached a solid oak door completely unguarded with no trace of struggle or violence; I was impressed at how they can clean the scene with no known trace of their presence.

"Just by looking at this, can you tell me how good they are?"

"It looks normal, but they need to cover smaller trails, small scuffles on ground indicates a struggle, snake trails are also shown which is odd since the castle gardeners make sure the only place that hold all the animals are supposed to be at the garden, and above all else they should erase their fingerprints off the door because ponies have furry hands that cover their finger prints but not humans."

"So are they not fit for the kill?" I asked her.

"I'm not saying their good like we are; they show potential if the right leader shows them the ropes."

"Is that why I was given my own team like you had when you were younger,” I worked alone for quite some time, killing evil slave traders before the organization gave me a message of leading a small group to kill some pony. “I still don’t even know who the people I’m working with.”

When I was younger and was still being taught by my mentor she would tell me tails of her time killing politicians, slave traders, and Templars with her teammates before a falling out happened that disbanded the group. I asked what the accident was and why they couldn't team up anymore. That caused me a month stranded on a small island to fend for myself, she said it was for training but I'm pretty sure she was pissed for what I said.

"Through this door are the stairs, after the stairs is an unlocked metal door, after you open the door there should be your team waiting for your orders."

"Thank you, mentor. What are you going to do now?" I asked her, whenever I meet her during missions I always hear her say "Stuff" or "things", this time will be no different like always for her to just leave the rest to her former student.

"I'm after a lead about a human that has the 'sense ' like you have."

"Really?" to be told by my teacher about such important nature, the most antisocial person I ever known is telling me with no hint of lying to me was a surprise enough.

"As soon as the gala ends, you and your team escapes, I will erase all evidence of me ever setting foot in the castle."

"Well good luck I hope your assignment will be easier than mine." I lifted my arm to give her a handshake when she put both her arms around me to give a hug and released me.

"I'm not your mentor Anon, call me by my name."

"Okay, good bye for now, Adeline." She smiled at me for saying her name, I smiled at her for saying her name, gave her a quick hug and entered inside to start the assassination of Blueblood.

Adeline always tells me patience is the key to a good kill but when I don't know how long I walked down these endless stairs my patience can deteriorate easily. Finally seeing a light in the end of the stairway you see the large iron door unlocked, just as I was going to open the door I hear two voices arguing on the other side, I put my ear on my side of the door and listened closely to what they’re saying.

"For the last time Michael, you are not going to change your assassin clothes for the other one, beside your the one who asked the organization to change your outfit a dozen  times and now when you finally said that it suits your taste you want the other one instead." The voice I was hearing sounded southern while the second voice had not accent but still had a bratty tone to it.

"He won't notice and the size looks like it can fit me, I mean it has a fine toned black that is more refined than my own colors, the person who made this was far more talented than the hacks who made mine."

Wasting no more time I opened the door to see two boys pulling my assassin's coat while a third boy was at the opposite door feeding a snake head coming out of his undershirt. Clearing my throat to alert them I walked to the guy with the cowpony hat holding my outfit, reached out my hand, retrieved it from him and went to a corner to change.

"Um, so you’re the Anon guy right?" the one with the bratty voice said.

"If you mean the leader than yes I am, can you tell me who you all are so I won't have to guess your names?"

The three awkward teens snapped into attention and formed a line starting with the large brown coat, the green coat and the fancy white coat. Brown coat guy looked to be the strongest showing his muscular arms by rolling up his right sleeves; he was the first to speak.

"Jonathon, sir, I may not be the stealthiest but if you need a berserker to handle the heavy hitters then I'm your man." Jonathan turned his head to green coat guy shaking like a leaf; he nudged his elbow to green coat causing him to jump from surprise.

"Names Terry, s-sir. This is my partner Sarah my pet snake she's very gentle, if you are injured and need help I can fix you right up, please to meet you, sir!" Terry immediately covered his face with his hood down even further and turned his covered face to the last of the bunch, the white colored guy.

"And I am the elegant, classy, sophisticated and I may add beautiful-"

"His names Michael," Jonah interrupted him and continued to say "a whiny, bratty momma's boy but one of the most skilled sharpshooters that no one can match."

*Humph* "I hate how you described me Jonah but I thank you for complementing my gunmanship." Now that I know who these people are I begin to explain our plan of attack.

"We use only silent concealable weapons which are our hidden wrist blades and the new phantom hidden wrist blades."

Jonah rolled up his left arm to show his hidden blade then rolled it back down. I looked at Terry doing the same as Jonah to show his blade and Michael revealing his hidden bow to confirm what I told them. Finishing the last part of my outfit I put my street clothes in the bin and opened the leading door to start the death of Templar Blueblood.

“Are you fucking kidding me?!”

“No! Not possible!”

“Please no, not again!”

As soon as we walk another flight of fucking stairs that look like it was made by god for a cruel joke on us. To say the walk of stairs was hell was a far understatement then we originally thought it to be, the trail was putting our feet to ache from the constant steps and it seems like theses stairs felt twice as longer than the first one!

“How far did she say Blueblood is?” I asked them.

“We’re going to the first floor of the castle, find the second floor stairs and start the process all over again.”

A collective *groan* resonated within the stair case, being a leader for…… I don’t remember how long I was a leader due to the fact all my brain cells are collectively killing themselves from the boredom which is walking the dreaded stairs.

“Look! The door everyone!" Shouted Michael with a new look of hope for actually seeing the door and not an illusion.

Dashing towards to salvation I pushed the door open to be engulfed in light making me shut my eyes. Reopening them I see that we are in the halls of the first floor of the castle with no signs of any guards or civilians roaming down this corridor to see me and my sadly exhausted crew. Terry was kneeling down on the bright colored carpet with a look of joy on his face, I looked at Jonah taking off his hat, wiped the sweat off his forehead and turned my head to see Michael fanning himself with his hands as he lays down on a fainting couch that appeared out of know where, what?

“So many Stairs! So many Stairs! So! Many! Stairs!” Michael said putting his left hand over his head, groaning in agony over the stone steps we walked on.

*Chuckles* “Like mom and son, you both are over-dramatic.” He told Michael, putting the hat back on his head he asked me.

“So what’s the next plan, sir?” Jonah asked me.

“Okay, first, you can drop the ‘sir’ and just call me Anon, second, I have a plan that will end this stairs bullshit.”

“So what’s the plan of action?”

“We don’t need to use the first floor stairs.” A huge relief spreads throughout the group as they have a different way to getting on the second floor.

“Yay.” Terry finally spoke up, still lying flat on the tiled floor panting heavily.

“But here’s the catch.” I said to them.

“Oh come on! What now?” Groaned Michael still on the couch, even Jonah starting to feel the fatigue for running for so long that he just wished for whatever I’m about to say can quicken the death of Blueblood.

“Are any of you afraid of heights? Because my plan involves a lot of climbing” I asked all of them.

“I’m afraid of Heights.” Terry replied.

“Due to my size and muscles I’m pretty sure I’ll be even slower climbing.” Jonah said.

“In short you’re too fat,” commented Michael. “I on the other hand have been trained and taught by my magnificent teacher  to use any surface to make a perfect shot.”  Said Michael recovering faster than Terry or Jonah, my stamina now recovered I told them what my plan involves.

“Since me and Michael have already gained our breaths Terry and Jonah will have to find the first floor stairs, get to the second floor, than when we meet up again we can end the son of a bitch once and for all.”

“And finding the keys to unlock the rest of the human’s right?” Terry asked me.

“Yeah that too. Let’s move guys the gala isn't waiting for us to finish.” I walked to one of the large windows, opened it, looked down to see how far from the ground we are, needless to say it wasn't what I imagined. I finally understand why the stairs seemed so long since the drop to the bottom is over a thousand feet.

“I can see why Terry is afraid of heights but no matter, Michael get off the couch we need to move.”

“Right away Anon,” He sat up from the couch, opened the window, looked down like I did, looked back at me and said. “Shall we be off than?”

[Third person]

*Sigh* “I hope Mike and Anon has better luck than we do Terry.” After Anon and Michael climbed outside the window, shutting it so it won’t be suspicious, left Jonah and Terry to find the second stairs to catch up with the other two.

“I hope their okay outside.” Terry said.

“I just hope we’ll find the damn stairs,” Within the ten minutes of searching they have not yet seen any stairs to use, with such a huge castle it must have more than one stair connecting to all the other floors in the castle. “This getting way out of hand the party could be over and we won’t even know it, do you see any stairs?”

“N-no stairs here, I hope we can find some way of fast traveling up stairs.”

“Then how are supposed to find it with so much ground to cover, this is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.”

They both searched a few hallways that wasn't checked yet and when both of them found pony guards patrolling they decided to hide or knock them out. It was decided by Anon on the way to the first floor that having few deaths will cause less notice. With no signs of progress Jonah asked Terry a personal question.

“So… how’s your relationship with that certain mare? Does your mom not notice her son finally got a marefriend?”

“No, my mom hasn't yet caught wind about her. What about you? Does your older sister know about your relationship?” Terry asked back.

“Applejack is too busy with giving us chores to see what me my marefriend do behind her back, how do you hide your alone time to be together with who you love?”

“I tell her that I’m trying to find more snakes to take care of.”

“Your mother doesn't seem to think you being near poisonous predators are okay, but when you get a small paper cut she would rush you to the hospital in a heartbeat.”

“It’s just her way of showing her love to her son that’s all, do you think we're close to finding any stairs yet?”

Terry and Jonah already gave up on finding the stairs a long time ago, they were even thinking about following Anon’s example, reaching to a window to start climbing they heard a loud *Ding* a couple of doors from where there standing.

Both shrugging their shoulders the two walked to the sound of the *Ding* becoming louder and louder. Reaching where the sound originated they found a metal gate the size of a regular do above the metal gate showed a dial with the numbers with a needle counting down with every *Ding*.

5….. *Ding*….. 4..... *Ding*….. 3….. *Ding*….. 2….. *Ding*….. 1….. *Ding*

The gates opened to show a human sitting in a wooden stool, reading a book not paying attention to the two assassins pointing their weapons by surprise from the person inside the elevator.

“Which floor?” He asked flipping a page then reading it not lifting his gaze to see the teens.

Having no other options of going upstairs they walked inside the elevator, saw the second floor button and chose who would speak up first. With a quick paper rock scissors to decide who it was, Terry lost the game by choosing paper from Jonah winning using scissors.

“T-the second floor, if it’s okay but if not I understand.”

Pushing the button the gates closed and elevator started to move up to the second floor. As they stayed in awkward silence, listening to awful elevator music they heard the *Ding* of reaching the second, saw the metal gates open and stepped out now having the problem to find where the room of Blueblood is.

“Turn left and at the twelfth door is where Blueblood is, you can’t miss since it has his initials.”  The elevator worker said.

Surprised at what he said to them Jonah was going to ask how he knows the location but was not fast enough for when the worker pushed a random button, still not taking his sights from his book had the gates closed and the elevator ascending to whatever floor he picked. Leaving the two to listen to his advice they walked to the left of the hall and counted the doors to be in front of Bluebloods room.

“So what's next, knock the door and say ‘hi me and my friend here is going to kill you so can you tell us where you put the key to free those slaves that’ll be great.’ Yeah I’m sure he is cooperative.” Jonah said sarcastically.

“What about that air vent.” Terry pointed a finger at an air duct above the boor to Blueblood. Jonah crouched down to let Terry step on him so he can enter the vent and pulled Jonah inside too.

The vents had just about the right amount of room to move around so both of them can look above Blueblood. Crawling on their stomachs to get a better view from the ceiling grate they spotted the prince at his large desk writing papers.  Moving closer to be just above him Jonah counted down to have a simultaneous kill on top of Blueblood before he can defend himself. Just when Jonah counted down to one the ceiling crashed down under them, falling face first on the hard floor. Terry was sure from the crash that their noses are broken and having a slight concussion was also bad to have as well. Head ringing with barely enough to energy to get on their feet they listened to the sound coming in the room. Shaking his head Jonah could start to understand who was speaking to them.

“It’s going to take a lot more to surprise me, monkeys.” Blueblood said to them.

His horn glowed with magic levitating two pistols aimed at their heads. Poking them with the barrel he said.

“Get up; I want to see your faces before I shoot them.”

Having no other choice Terry and Jonah stood up in front of him their faces obscured from the hat and hood. Walking closer the assailants, still watching their movement, Blueblood took the hat on top of Jonah’s head revealing his face.

“I seen this hat before, it was worn by that filthy mare Applejack the friend on that whorse Rarity.”

“Give that to me.” Jonah said using a calm tone to hide his anger for taking his sister’s hat.

“Not wise to order me around since I’m holding the gun,” Looking at Terry Blueblood reached for his hood to his face.

“You shouldn't do that, please.” Terry said.

“What?”

“Touching me is not wise so don't do it.”

“I do whatever I please peasant I’m Prince Blueblood!” Provoked he dropped Jonah’s hat, grabbed terry's hood and was about to pull it down when a flicker of brown emerged underneath Terry’s shirt biting Blueblood's hand.

“Ahh! What did you do you swine!?” Blueblood shouted clutching his painful wound.

“I told you to not touch me; she doesn't like it when strangers touch me.”

“Damn you both, I’m going to end this now!” The pistols floating in the air went in both his hands and pointed at them when a sharp pain came from his back making him drop the guns from the intense pain.

Seeing the chance Jonah dashed towards Blueblood, stabbing the prince’s stomach with his hidden blade, knocked him down on the ground and said.

“Where are the keys?”

*Huff* *huff* “What?” He said weakly.

Not having the time to waste Jonah twisted his weapon further inside Blueblood’s stomach, covered his muzzle to not let any guards come to rescue him and asked again.

“The keys, to free the humans you trade without the consent of ponies you sick fuck.” Jonah said to Blueblood.

“Ha, ha, ha. To late assassin, by the time the party ends at midnight all the humans in those cages will be shipped off to the griffon ambassador, I already given the keys to him an hour ago including the bribes I given to several guards to make sure that no evidence will be connected to him or me, they just can’t stop loving the taste of you humans especially the young ones.”

Jonah had enough of the prince’s bullshit, his disregard for human life made it all the more reason to end his life, he took out his blade from Blueblood’s stomach, stabbed him in his jugular and sliced clean though his neck spilling more blood on the carpet. The death of prince Blueblood has succeeded but saving the prisoners failed.

"Rest in peace, scumbag."

[Anon’s point of view]

Why did you think climbing on the side of a fucking castle on a fucking mountain was a good idea!

I mean sure it sounded like a sound proof plan, in case one team failed the other will execute to job, save the other team than get out. But with the strong cold air blasting at us from all directions, pegasai guards patrolling the skies, barely any place to hide made it a high risk to being spotted in the open.

Just don’t look down, dammit!

Climbing to the second floor Michael spoke up next to me and said.

“Which room Is Blueblood in? The maid told us that he should be at the second level not which room on the second floor.”

Now I should probably say that I also forgot to ask her about which room before we separated, seeing as this is a large castle with millions of rooms but this is where my ‘sense’ comes in handy. Closing my eyes for a brief moment, in retrospect I shouldn't since I am still hanging from a large castle, I opened my eyes again to see my vision change to something else. Every living thing had their own haze of color each different from the other so spotting the rest of the group should be no problem now.

“Do you know where you’re going?”

“There just a few more windows left till where near them keep going.”

“And you know this how?” He asked me.

“My ‘sense’ can see things others can’t see.”

“My teacher told me about special assassins with that gift, eagle vision she called it, I heard it’s a rare case to have especially if you’re born with it.”

And what he said was true, most of the first generation of assassins had the ‘sense’ but though the countless years of battle they diminished one by one without producing the offspring inheriting the ‘sense’.

“I was able to use this vision at a young age, other assassins take more than a few years to harness this gift while mine was easier to use.” It was also the only thing I have that is connected to my birth parents, not even the organization could dig any information on who they were or if they were deserters to the cause either way these eyes are the only thing to remember them by.

Getting closer to the colors they started to be more describable to see, a brown and green color were standing next to each other while a yellow color with two smaller yellow colors had been pointed near their heads. The brown and green must be Jonah next to Terry while the yellow is Blueblood, they must have been spotted by him and are in trouble!

“Blueblood has them hostage, we have to go faster!” Swinging from window to window we arrived to the room showing Blueblood holding our friends taking aim with our hidden bow at his back and fired. It was at that moment when Blueblood was about to pull the trigger me and Michael pulled ours faster. Launching the small arrows it pierced the window, into his back causing him to scream from pain, dropping the guns for Jonah to tackle him on the ground and finished the target with the killing blow.

*Knock* *knock* “Terry let us in; he locked it from the inside.” Michael said.

Rushing forward around the desk to the latch on the window, he opened it for us and went back to check on Jonah. We immediately went to work on finding the keys, even with my eagle vision still on I could not find any clues to where Blueblood hid them. Finding those keys was like finding a needle in a haystack and when you have the sight beyond sight to see anything I want to see made it much more frustrating.

“You won’t find it.” Jonah said to us.

“What do you mean?” I asked pulling book off the shelf to see if a secret switch would activate something useful.

“The bastard gave the key to the griffon ambassador and at midnight will take all the humans to his country.” Frustrated he kicked the lifeless body making some fresh blood to spill more out of the slash mark on Blueblood’s gaping neck wound.

“Anon look, the clock says it’s a halve hour before midnight.” I looked at where Michael was pointing to the clock at the side of the window showing the time till the party soon finishes all the ponies leave including master and that little beast of a girl Diamond tiara.

“Change of plans everyone we need to leave, Terry can you and Jonah climb?” Even if Terry is scared of heights and Jonah is to heavy It didn’t matter since we’re all going to be caught red handed if we stay to long.

“I’m afraid we can’t.” Terry said examining Jonah’s head for any other injury.

“What now?” I’m starting to get tired of these setbacks and if I can’t get a break from all these problems then what’s the point of escaping?

“I and Jonah crashed face first giving us a broken nose including a minor concussion; if we climb down the castle we’ll be much slower than using the stairs.”

“So what do we do, use the stairs again?” Michael said lying on an even fancier couch with his hand over his head striking a dramatic pose.

“Luckily we have a quicker way to get to the first floor.” Jonah told them.

“Really?” I asked him.

“Follow us and we’ll show you.” Jonah, Terry, Michael, and I exited out of Blueblood’s room, taking any evidence of their arrival that can be traced from them, they stand in front of a metal gate with a *ding* sound getting louder reaching the second level.

The gates opened up showing a different worker reading a different book without looking up to see two more assassins pointing their mini cross bows from being surprised by the appearance.

“We did the same thing to but its fine, just get inside and we’ll be in the first floor in no time.” Terry and Jonah entered while the both of us were still confused to trust the worker but desperate time calls for desperate measures.

After minutes of standing in silence with terrible music in the background the gates opened up to show the first floor, Terry and Jonah told us that they remembered where the down stairs are. As I was the last to exit the elevator I turned around to look at the still reading worker.

“Does Adeline know you’re here?” I asked him, I didn’t notice from the start with the new face so I couldn't risk it while my team was around us which is why I purposely stayed behind to ask him.

*Chuckle* “Impressive observation Anon, how can you tell it was me?” Closing his book he peeled the mask off to show his true colors to me. No longer was a pale face man in the elevator but is replaced with a bald dark skinned older man with an amusing grin on his face for seeing past the disguise.

“That book your reading gave it away, I saw you read it during my training days under your sister.”

“You spotted such a small detail in just a few glances, my little sister trained you well, kid.”

“But does she know you’re here?” I asked again.

“No, I’m just here to clean any messes you or Adeline that can hinder the existence of you both being here.”

“What about my team, did you check on them?”

“They are quite funny, and they seem to do better working together then being apart, I’ll make sure to write a good review about your team kill I’m sure their teachers will like how their pupils accomplished the mission."

“Anon, hurry up we don’t want to get caught!” Shouted Jonah a few feet ahead of me, I still want more info about why Adeline’s brother is here but time is running out so I left him at the elevator.

“Wait!” He shouted.

“What now?” I asked.

“Don’t tell them about me, okay? I promised their mentors to stay out of their way and see how well they perform.”

“Fine, if that’s all then I’m going now.” I started to walk away before he told me.

“Good to see you to, Anon.”

“Good to see you to, Achilles.”

Following the rest of the group down the cells we found all cages open with no humans in them.

“Shit! Is the party over?!” Jonah shouted looking at every empty cage.

“No, that can’t be the reason for their disappearance; the elevator has given us a head start.” Terry counter argued.

Looking at the last cage I spotted a clean sheet of paper beneath the paper showed a small clock showing that we have just twenty minutes when the party was over. Reading the paper out loud for the rest to hear from the beginning and said.

“You all performed well as a team and while you were gone we deployed a second team to stop with the illegal trade humans, they have all escaped without being noticed by the guards which hopefully you will do the same.” I scrolled down to the end of the page seeing our assassin’s symbol to confirm the authenticity if it is real or not.

“A second team to set free the human prisoners? How come we didn't know about this Anon?” Terry asked me.

“We can question the details later the watch says we only got less than twenty minutes to find where to be so our families won’t notice.” Looking behind the paper I see more txt to read.

“This room is not where all the humans are being held, the guards in front were bribed by Blueblood to pick the most desirable humans out of the undesirable humans.The real chamber holding the human slaves is on…… the first floor!”

A collective groan resonated in the room amplifying the sound of our protest of using the stairs again.

*Sigh* “Let’s get this over with, the paper says the chamber is on the south side of the castle, get dressed and move out! Time is of the essence!” switching out our cloths in the bin, it was also nice of Adeline to plastic wrap Michael’s suit so he won’t complain, but the other problem right now is.

“What do we do with our other cloths?” Jonah asked.

“Since the maid put the cloths bin here than she would eventually return it back to a laundry room where our assassin’s cloths will be shipped out in secret.” I said.

Running upstairs a third time with more vigor in our legs, we started hyperventilating half way up the steps having it more difficult running in tight suits, finally reached the first floor and told them.

“We *huff* got to go *huff* to the south chamber.” I said tiredly.

I need to work out more.

Dodging the gaze of any guards patrolling the halls we made it to the south chambers, each door was the same but by the end of the hall we saw a large double door with voices behind it. Opening the door discreetly, having a few eyes rather than having the entire room looking at us we casually walked to the corner of the room near the largest group of humans talking and concealed ourselves with the sea of people as our camouflage. 

Looking at the small watch again it told me we had just a minute left before the party was about to end. With the hands on the clock reached to midnight all of the people in the room heard loud horns signaling the party was over, the doors opened with an earth pony day guard motioning all of us to be returned to our owners. Exiting out in a file line the guard in the front led us out side of the front of the castle where we see ponies entering their chariots to go home, separating from my group I found my master near a lamp post with his daughter waiting for me.

“Hello Anonymous, how was your experience when we were away?” Phil asked me, her daughter on the other hand just paid attention to the ponies driven home by humans and not me.

“It was uneventful master hope your time at the party was to your liking.” Since we are in public I had to call him master not his real name.

“It was dreadful, Anonymous, prince Blueblood was supposed to meet me at the gala but he did not show up the nerve of him.” A few things that frustrate my master are wasting his time and since Blueblood was indisposed it just made my master think the prince has forgotten to meet Phil.

“You know some royalty are just spoiled master.”

“Indeed they are, it’s getting late and I don’t see any form of transportation around. Let us go to a hotel for the night I don’t think walking at midnight is a bad idea.” Phil walked his daughter down the cement side walk to find a hotel in Canterlot while I still stayed in place, looked back to the castle, turned my eyes to my master and followed him making as much distance to the murder in Blueblood’s room far as possible.

In the morning I’m pretty sure some of the maids will find the corpse of the once prince Blueblood fermenting on the carpet in his room but by the time they try and find who done we’ll be long gone. With a Templar killed and some humans set free I can only imagine what our next Templar we’ll have to kill. Either way it was fun to have a team to kill corrupt ponies for the revolution to tip over to our side. I just hope we can stay a team long enough to create history for humans becoming free.

“Hurry up stupid, or else we’ll leave you here alone!” She shouted.

“Right away milady” Walking the now awakened Canterlot city streets.

I just hope I won’t be caught killing the obnoxious young mare before my next assignment arrives. Oh well, a teen can dream right?

[This story was inspired by this trailer.]



> Second mission
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Ponyville]

The best part of having a drink of coffee was in the morning. A clear sky free of clouds and the sun beaming down from the clear ceiling glass window as you enjoy this peaceful morning. Living in a giant mansion was also a perk but right now it doesn’t matter when you’re busy reading the newspaper. Apparently when the party ended the griffon ambassador was found just a few hours in the same secret chamber you were in with a note from Blueblood giving the ambassador human slaves that were not legally owned. It was also a bad time for the ambassador to be accused of murdering the dead prince when the guards came to his room for questioning.

This could be a good way for ponies to question their ruler about this scandal.

Reading further into the newspaper you read that a trial will be held in a few days. Given the evidence against the griffons you can assume that it will take a miracle for them to win. But the best part is that the papers did not say the scene is foul play making you also assume that you destroyed all evidence that could trace back to the organization.

This day can’t get any better!

“Hey, Anon, get your ass over here!” Diamond Tiara yelled.

And this day just turned to shit.

“Coming, my lady.” Putting down your coffee and papers you walked to the front entrance seeing the young mistress in her pajamas.

“Can’t you do your damn job, the doorbell has been ringing.”

“But you’re at the door before me, couldn’t you have done it yourself?” you asked her.

“That’s your job, get it done.” After her command she walked past you and went back to her room to fall back to sleep.

Waiting a couple of seconds of peace you opened the door to see one of your favorite ponies doing her daily rounds, which happens to be this house too.

“Hello Dinky, how’s your mother doing?” You asked her.

“Hello to you too, my mother is just fine; she’s actually going to send some mail to Ms. Dash at her cloud home.” Dinky explained.

“Well, I hope this job is to your liking.”

“To be honest, I actually wanted to do something else, but with so many new residences going to Ponyville I decided to help my mom with mailing all this, I’m starting to like it now.”

“Hopefully you can get passed the small riots happening in the town lately, it can get dangerous.”

Since so many ponies are coming in town it also means a high rate of crimes, most of them is a rising rate of ponies trying to liberate humans from their owners. It was a nice thing at first, but through the recent months they started to get to reckless for any human or pony to not get harmed in the process.

“Don’t worry; the guards are increasing to handle the problem.” She told you.

It also means having a harder time to sneak around town being unnoticed.

“I should be on my way, this is your mail.” Reaching in her mail bag she handed you the mail and a large chocolate muffin on top.

“What’s with the muffin?” You asked her.

“It’s for you, trust me, you’ll need it.” As soon as you were going to close the door you see her wink before it finally closed leaving you a little bit confused.

Doesn’t matter, I get a free muffin!

Putting the mail on the living room table you walk back to the kitchen table and started to bite the muffin until you have the empty wrapper in your hands. You were about to throw it away before you stopped halve way to the trash can. Looking back on the inside of the wrapper you see a folded paper with the assassin symbol stamped in the middle.

That’s a delicious way of giving me a mission.

You looked around so no one is looking you unwrapped the paper and started to read what was written.

“Your kill was completed with a success but you forgot another reason why you were there. Do you not remember what it was, Anonymous?” Pausing for a moment you tried to remember what the other reason was.

Oh, shit. I was supposed to get information before killing him!

“It does not matter since the Equestrian government is having a political dispute with the griffons making your mistake less important. With the royal sisters now busy with this matter it leaves some Templars to their own devises making it easier to locate.” Turning the paper you see your new assignments and their location. If the leader of the Templars are distracted, that means the underlings are now far less observed for you and your team to kill them with less caution.

Putting the paper in your pocket you looked at the kitchen clock to see what time it is. Since the time says you are in the afternoon you can safely assume that Diamond won’t be awake until you get back, even Phil won’t notice you gone since he won’t be home until tonight from work.

I should head to the roof; get the directions to where the rest of my team is.

Climbing all the way up to the roof you used your eagle vision to see which teammate is closer first. Seems the only one near you was Terry at the edge of the Everfree forest away from the public eye and swarming guards.

Time to for a quick change.

Heading back inside you went to your room to get your outfit, opening the closet you combed over your regular clothes to get a large chest hidden under them. With a few minutes of dressing you opened your window and looked down to see the large straw pile underneath your room. You’re glad that Phil hasn’t seen it, but since he is so busy with work he doesn’t have the time to see these things.

I love a good dip in the morning.

Taking a deep breath you jumped out of your window and dived in to the large pile. Emerging with no signs of injury you ran across the yard and climbed the back yard tree leading to the forest. Even if there is less eyes watching doesn’t mean that the sky is empty either.

Running to Terry’s house you spotted glimpses out of the bushes to see ponies doing their daily work. But the most prominent ones to get your attention is the large group of ponies holding a flag with the hand print of a human waving in the breeze. Within the group is the leader of the operation shouting at the ponies.

“What’s wrong with you all? Chaining these intelligent beings like lesser beast! Rise up humans, we will be with you!” She said raising her fist in the air causing the other ponies behind her to do the same.

“Ok, what’s the commotion?” A guard said walking near the protesters.

“You know why, oppressor!” She said.

“Oh, it’s just you, again.” He said casually.

“These lands are supposed to be home of love and tolerance to everyone, why can’t humans be too?”

“Alright, Lyra, this is your third and final strike. You have to come down to the station with me.” Reaching her arm she quickly used her opposite hand and slapped him causing the other ponies behind her to start fighting the other guards coming to rescue their fellow worker.

Things can’t possibly get any worse.

Just then, when you were about to run again you heard a loud gunshot causing all the other ponies to run screaming from the noise.

Yeah, time to start running again.

Running from the screaming and gunshots you reached the cottage away from the loud town and started to walk around the house to find Terry.

“Psst, Terry, I need to speak to you about the new mission.” You said.

Just like the front house you see nothing in the back, for a place that was home to many animals this place is as empty as any abandoned house. As you were about to turn back to the front of the house to check the front again you felt an intense pain causing you to fall on the ground. Looking down your leg you see a large dark brown snake crawling closer to you with it's fangs aimed directly at you. Ready to bite you again, you were about to hit it with something near you when a slender hand grabbed it before the snake’s fangs reached your throat.

“I told you to stop biting our guests, Mr. King.” Terry said, putting the snake back down so it can slither back to whatever home it came from.

“That shitty snake bit me!” You yelled clutching your poisoned leg.

“Hello to you to, Anon.” He said.

“I need to go to the- ow!” As soon as you were about to finish your sentence, Terry plunged a needle in your leg causing you to sigh in relieve as the drug calmed your nerves.

“This antidote should stop the poison from killing you.”

“I still hate that snake.” You said still dazed from the drug.

“Your lucky I was still here and not with my mother trying to calm down Ponyville with the rest of her friends.”

“I heard gunshots while I was going to your house.”

“Yeah, I heard, hold on a second.” As Terry walked away from you still holding your leg, you see him go near the forest and started to shout.

“It’s ok everyone you can come out, it’s safe now!”

One by one, groups of animals began to exit the forest and started to go back to whatever they were doing in front of his house; Terry came back and helped you up from the ground.

“I did not know you can talk to so many animals, Terry.” You said astonished.

“You didn’t ask, Anon.”

“Well, since that whole snake bite is now over its time to tell you what our next target is.”

“Ok, who do we kill now?” He asked you.

You both walked to the front yard bench to sit and told him who the next kill will be.

“Iron will, apparently he has opened a fitness gym in Manehattan.”

“Iron will? My mother told me about him, he was a self-help guru and now he's a fitness trainer?”

“If you think that’s strange than listen to this, as soon as he opened his gym ponies have reported many humans missing.” Just to show your evidence you gave Terry a small list of names from the past few days before taking it back to read more.

“Don’t we usually get these reports like these before?” He asked.

“That was when we get them individually, but here is where it gets really weird.”

“What is weirder than missing humans?”

“Well, the local pony police found the same missing humans only to have no other choice but to exterminate them.” You said to him, you can already tell from his face that he wants to learn more now.

“What?”

“The cop’s report says that the same missing humans they found a few days later are a lot more bulker, including a huge temper.” You explained to him.

“A huge temper, what do you mean?”

“What I mean is those humans were so volatile that the police had no choice but to kill them all.”

“How many did it take? Two police ponies with magic and pistols should have been enough, right?” Terry asked.

“More like three unicorns, five earth ponies, and two blunder busts to take down just one out of the other dozen muscled freaks.” You explained.

“Whatever Iron is doing, we need to stop this, when do we leave?” He asked you.

“Hopefully soon, I need to get this info to Jonah and Mike first before I set up the time to depart.” Pulling up your hood you got up from where you are sitting when, Terry, stopped you and said.

“Don’t worry about those two, my mother wants me to go to the picnic at the park to meet with the rest of her friends, I’m sure I’ll meet them while I’m there.” He told you.

That sure is convenient. 

“Then I hope you can make up a lie to tell your mother, because I’m sure we’re going to stay at Manehatten for some time.”

“I’ll think of something but for now, I pray for your safe return home.” Terry reached over for a hand shake you saw a sparkling trinket hanging around his neck, making you hesitate to take his hand.

“Terry…… is that what I think it is?”

“Oh, you mean my cross?” Terry said taking it with two fingers to give you a closer look.

“I mean that religious contraband, just showing that in public can get you in serious trouble.”

One of the major laws for humans is to not hold any belief or objects that do not resemble Celestia or Luna. The punishment will give you a life time sentence, with an execution of being hanged. Since humans are all slaves they do not have the right to hold any faith to other unknown gods, including a god that is human.

“You should get rid of it, does Fluttershy knows?” You asked.

“No, she doesn’t know. I’m not tossing it away either since this is the only thing to remember my parents.” Terry said clutching the cross.

“I’m sorry for being insensitive, Terry.” You apologized to him.

“It’s fine, ever since I lost my parents from hunting griffons I prayed to God twice as hard to get away from all of the pain it caused me when I was young. Ten years later you see me now with all of this.” Waving his hand to the house to show what he means, Terry began to speak again.

“He has blessed me with these gifts and I am grateful for it. Now I wish to spread our religion to other humans so they can have hope for a higher power, more powerful than the princess’s authority could ever amount to.”

“You will accomplish your dream as soon as we win this war, you have my promise.” After several more minutes you said your goodbyes and proceeded to walk back to your house with more knowledge of Terry than ever before.

Still a shitty snake he has. Can’t believe he even has more of those things.

Climbing the house and in to your room you started to undress your gear when you heard loud hoof step getting closer to your door. Having no time to take off all your assassin gear you jumped in your bed and hid your entire body with your blanket before Diamond bursts in screaming.

“Did you not hear me? I said make me dinner!”

“Ok, ok, I’ll be right down, just give me a moment to finish.”

“Finish what?” She asked.

“Um, masturbating." You said awkwardly.

“Gross, you pig, Just hurry up I’m starving.” As she slammed your door you quickly changed and rushed down to the kitchen to make some food for dinner.

For about an hour in the kitchen you set up the plates on the table, set out the food, and changed to cleaner clothes just before you hear Phil walk inside the house with a tired expression from work. Pulling out the kitchen chair for him to sit you gave him a cup of scotch and started to talk to him.

“How was your work, Phil?” You asked.

“Tiresome, those idiots can’t even do a simple signing contract without me holding their hands.” With a quick gulp from his drink he began to speak again before Tiara came in wearing a frilly pink dress, wrapped her arms around his neck and giving him a kiss on the cheek.

“Hey daddy, I hope you like the dinner I made.”

I made the dinner, bitch.

“It’s wonderful dear. How about you make some more food for Anon?” He asked her.

“But I made all this for you.” She said.

“Then there is no problem to make more.” Pulling an extra chair from the table he motioned you to sit and started to talk again while the angry Diamond marched in the kitchen to cook more food.

“But enough about me, I have something to tell you, Anonymous.”

“What is it, Phil?” You asked.

“I have seen you all over the house always full of energy lately”

Actually, I was scouting the house for any other places to hide more weapons, but whatever. 

“So I decided to give you a gym membership.”

“A gym membership, to where?”

“I heard it has a wonderful trainer, Iron will they called him.”

That is very convenient.

“Is it possible I can start tomorrow, with my friends?” You said to Phil.

“Friends, since when did you start talking to other humans?”

“It was when I was with the rest of the humans at the gala; I think they will love to tag along.”

“That is a wonderful idea! Just tell me who is housing them and I can let them go with you tomorrow to Manehatten.”

“You should know them; Most of them are family to the ex-elements of harmony.”

“Then talking to them should be far easier than I imagined.” Taking another swish of alcohol he got up from the table and walked to the living room.

“Let me just get the phone book to call them, I’m sure they can accept my offer when I pay for their train ticket and hotel rooms.”

While Phil walked out of the table, Diamond entered with a plate of charred food in her hands.  Putting the plate in front of you she went around the table and seated across from you. Seeing her eyes not leaving the plate in front of you, you started to eat it with little success of trying to not barf.

“Your nothing but a slave, you know that?”

You stopped eating and looked back at Diamond Tiara now looking at you.

“I’m sorry?” You asked.

“He’s not even your real father, stop trying to steal him away from me!” She shouted before running back to her room.

Geez, she needs to stop her father complex.

Cleaning out your plate you walked to the living room to see Phil hanging up the phone. His face seemed happy to let you know that his talking has swayed them to join you.

“I called them, and they said that they will join you to Manehatten!” He said excitingly.

“I should get ready for my things then, thank you so much, Phil.”

“Think nothing of it, Anon.”

As you both walked back to the kitchen to finish his conversation you cleaned the rest of the table and started to pack up your things to get ready for the trip. It also means adding your assassin’s cloths and weapons hidden beneath the street cloths you’re going to wear when you reach Manehatten.

Tomorrow is going to be a great trip for you and nothing seems to stop it. Nothing!

[Next day]

Something stopped your great day!

At eight in the morning you walked with Diamond and your master to the train stop. Coming near the station you see the six mares with the rest of your team with the addition of three extra ponies standing next to them.

Must be those blank flanks Tiara has told me about, I’m sure I’ll be getting along with them since I also despise this immature teen.

“Anon, I need a word alone please.” Your master said to you.

Walking to a corner of the station he told you what he needs you to do that made this already shit day turn to even more shit.

“I do not trust my daughter to be alone at the house, so I need you to take her with you.”

“What?” You asked.

“I just hate to see my only child alone while I’m at work and since you two go along so well I just know you will make the best of it.”

If he mean she and I go so well like twins trying to eat each other in the mother’s womb Phil's not wrong there.

“But where are her bags?” I asked him.

“Right over there.” He pointed his finger to a large cart holding all forms of cargo being shipped in the back of the train.

“Which one are her bags, the small ones, or the big ones?”

“All of them.” He said flatly.

God, give me strength.

“Well, I hope your journey will be a good one Anon.”

“I will see you at the end of the week, Master.” You said, shaking his hand than turning back to the end of the train.

“All aboard, Ponies in front humans in the back of the train!” The train conductor shouted.

Entering the back of the train you see Terry, Jonah, and Mike sitting at the corner of the train, using a large case as a make shift table, you sat next to Terry to inform the rest of the team what happens when you four will reach your destination.

“So, did Terry tell you guys most of the details?”

“What? You mean the whole Iron will using humans to become near un-killable monsters, or is there more to this suck salad that we need to know of?” Jonah asked.

“Good question, Jonah, I actually need to know what weapons you three brought.”

“I brought my trusty axe, two flint lock pistols, a hidden blade, and a blunder bust.” Jonah said.

“How can you hide all that?”

“I told my sister to get an extra crate of apples to sell at Manehatten” Jonah explained.

“How about you, Mike? What did you bring?” You asked him.

“I have brought my rifle, with bayonet, two hidden blades, four smoke bombs, and four pistols.”

“And where did you put them, Jonah’s crate?”

“Oh no, I treat my weapons with more care than that.”

“So where did you put your weapons?”

“We’re using it as our table.”

“You mean, right now, this large case that we are using as a table, is full of your weapons?”

“Yes, I told my mother that it’s full of my work out clothes for different styles of exercise.” He explained to you.

“Ok, not going to question your methods. What about you, Terry?” You asked him.

“I took some medical equipment, a pistol, poison blow darts, hidden blade, and my snake Sarah.” Lifting his right hand up his pet snake, Sarah, emerged out of his sleeve and quickly receded back inside her home.

“Where did you get this medical stuff?” You asked.

“My mother thought I might get an injury from lifting heavy weights.” He explained.

“Ok, thanks for telling me of what you all brought  we should all get some rest, going to be a while before we get to Manehatten.”

“Why should we?” Jonah asked.

“Because, when we arrive I want us to patrol at night to the area the police reported where the modified humans were located. Now get some rest, we start when the rest of our group falls asleep. 

Separating away from the group you stacked up Diamonds belongings into a make shift bed and looked back at what the rest of the group are using for beds. What you thought of seeing old matrasses and dirty blankets was instead replaced with clean nap sacks with fresh clean blankest followed by having the three of your team mates setting it up like their having a sleep over.

“Hey Anon, can I ask you a question?" Terry said.

“What?” You asked still trying to have a better sleeping position.

“You want to have an extra pillow?”

“I can also spare you a blanket, my mother always wants make sure I stay warm.” Michael said to you.

“Hell, you can move over here if you want, better to stay in a group while we’re in this train together.” Jonah said.

Pushing Diamond’s suit cases closer, you take the pillow and blanket from them. 

“Goodnight.” Terry said to us.

“Goodnight.” Michael said.

“Goodnight.” Jonah also replied.

“….. Good night.” You said having a better night sleep than you ever thought having on the end of a train.

As you slowly fall asleep you still have second thoughts about what you’re up against. Mystery drug, monster humans, Iron will, none of these seem to come together on this case but if the organization has given this to you than you have an obligation to figure this out. Just as soon as you can get a goodnights rest for the long trip a head of you.

“Anon, you still awake?” Terry asked.

“I am now.”

“Oh, I’m so sorry.”

“No, its fine, what do you want to ask me?”

“What do you think about what happened to the humans?”

“If you ask me I think the Templars used some kind of advanced magic Equestria hasn’t discovered yet.”

“I thought you were asleep, Jonah.” You said to him.

“I think they were implanted with some ancient enchantments the Templars use to track other humans suspected of being an assassin.”

“Jesus Christ, Is everyone awake?” You asked them.

“I’m just putting by two bits in the conversation.” Michael said.

“Well, you’re both wrong, the autopsy shows that they had no magic or any foreign objects in their bodies.” You told them. 

“Than what do you think it is, Anon?” Terry asked you.

*Exhales* “I think it is some new drug that increases your strength but also makes you quick to anger.”

“In any case we should back to bed, Goodnight.” Jonah said laying back down on his nap sack.

“Goodnight.” Michael was the second to fall back to sleep leaving you and Terry left to say goodnight.

“I hope we can end this problem before it reaches our home.” Turning over to his side to sleep you are the last person still awake.

I hope so too.

[Somewhere else]

Ggrrraaahhh!

“Hold it back damn it! Doctor, we need you to put to it to sleep!” Shouted a heavy armored earth pony holding a chain on a large figure trying to thrash its way out of its shackles.

“I gave it ten times to average dosage; it’s still not going down!” The doctor said to the guard.

Pulling the chain on its right arm a guard went flying towards its direction than was grabbed by her midsection.

“It’s got me!” She shouted. Pulling out her knife she stabbed the monster’s arm repeatedly before it threw her across the room, face first into solid concrete floor, crushing her entire head on impact. 

Just as it was taking another victim, two cloven hooved feet smashed down on its head, knocking it out immediately.

“What seems to be the problem, Dork?”

“It’s pronounced doctor, Mr. Iron will.”

“That’s what I said, Dork.”

*sigh* “Our problem is that we’re down one guard, our drugs can't sedate it without being torn in two, and for the past two weeks the ponies owning humans in the area became to paranoid they can't even let one human come out of their homes.” The doctor explained to him.

“I’m not so sure about that.”

“What are you getting at, sir?”

“A phone call from yesterday wanted a gym membership. A train is heading to this city, transporting four human boys, you can see where I getting at.”

“I’ll have the drug ready when they enter the fitness center, sir.”

“See as you get it done, Dork.”

*sigh* “Its pronounced doc.”

> Meet the Changelings
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

 [Manehatten] [1st person]

Being the first to get out of the back train you scanned the area of your new environment.

Large crowds to blend into, buildings to climb, and enough room to do all of this makes an excellent assassin like you to fitin.

“Anon, where are you!?”

*Sigh* “Coming, Miss Diamond.” Running with all her bags you see her with the rest of the mares. Well, at least a few feet away from them, since she does not enjoy any ponies company but her fathers.

“I have all your bags miss.” You told her.

“Whatever, just follow me, father gave me the map to the hotel we’re going to use while we stay here.”

With heavy bags on your back, a hot day with no shade to go under, and waves of ponies shoving and pushing you out of there way made you wish you can just drop all this shit off your back and kill every single fucker that crosses your way.

Patience, Anon, remember what Adeline told you about your blood lust.

Even if you can’t slit any throats doesn’t mean you can’t steal from any pockets. Basic training for all assassins is you need to steal from any creature that has a pocket or two on their pants and how much each victim can carry.

Suffice it to say, you collected more bits than you already had on the train. With your final victim’s pocket cleaned out you stopped behind Tiara and looked at the hotel you and your friends will use for the next couple of days.

Opening the door for her, while carrying her bags at the same time, you called for the desk clerk so Diamond can get our room keys.

“Hello, and welcome to-“

“Don’t care, give me our keys.” She demanded.

“And you are?” The clerk asked trying to hide how pissed off she is with Diamonds rudeness.

“I’m Diamond tiara, the daughter of Mr. Rich. The same person you talked too yesterday.”

“Oh! My apologies, Miss Diamond, here are your keys. You can tell you’re human to go to our basement to place your things.”

“You don’t have to tell me twice, Anon, you better put my bags somewhere safe, or else you’ll be in so much trouble.” She threatened.

Separating away from her, you carefully walked down to the badly lit basement and tossed her bags some place before you sat down on the last step of the stairs to catch your breath.

“You alright down there, Anon?” Terry asked you.

“Fine, just fine, Terry. Where are Jonah and Mike?”

“There still getting the heavy stuff over at the front counter, good news is that the basement is also close to our rooms.”

“Where is our room?” You asked.

“You’re already in it, Anon.”

“You mean the basement?”

“It was the only thing available to humans. I’m pretty sure the other hotels in Manehatten will put humans somewhere far grosser than this place.”

He’s got a point. I’m sure Phil had to pay extra to make sure we at least get some sort of service from this place.

“Either way, our plan stays the same. We need to at least get to the morgue to get some form of evidence of what the victims now look like.” 

“Well, we better wait. The sun is still out and my mother wants me to help her get her things put away.”

“Go to your mother, Terry. I’m sure the rest of us have something to do for our family.”

Leaving you down at the basement by yourself, you decided to fix Diamond’s luggage at the corner of the room, and looked around to see if there is any window to crawl outside. It would be bad to use the front door dressed in your gear, including any pony that is still awake at midnight. Finally, seeing a basement window behind a wooden shelf you moved it away to see if it has any damages.

Cracked on the corner, wooden frame broken, dirt completely covering field of vision, does it still open?

Lifting it gently, the window opened up for you to see outside of a dark ally. Setting it gently down you moved the shelf back in place before Jonah’s older sister, Applejack, walked in holding a large apple crate trying to find a spot to set it down.

“Here, let me help you.” Picking a spot at a corner she placed it down and turned back to look at me.

“Much obliged, partner. You must be this Anon person my brother talked about.” 

“That I am, Ms. Applejack, pleasure to meet you.” You shook her hand a sign of respect than made a b-line for your belongings when she spoke to you again.

“You know, you’re not the type of human Diamond would own, no offence.” She told you.

“Oh? What type of human did you think I was, Ms. Applejack?”

“I mostly thought you’d be a bit pompous and arrogant, like Diamond.”

“Even though We live in the same large house doesn’t mean I’m like Miss Tiara.”

“For what it’s worth, some sort of gratitude is needed for serving Diamond.”

“Having a shelter and food is enough gratitude for me to serve my master’s household.”

“You mean Mr. Rich? A shame his daughter can’t be like her father.”

It was nice to hear it from someone not human; if it was any other human they would be sent away from miss conduct. But your conversation with her was cut short when another young earth pony, Applebloom, came in and asked for her help.

“Hope we can talk again real soon, Anon.”

“I would like that, Applejack.”  Waving your hands as a goodbye she went out the door leaving you alone again in the basement.

Well time to get to work.

Opening your bag, you grabbed your assassin’s gear and stashed it behind a pile of hay when you’re ready to leave at night. Reaching in your pocket, you took out the watch from your last mission, and checked what time it is.

Five in the afternoon, going to be a long time before we’ll be able to leave this place, wonder what the rest of my friends are up to.

[Somewhere else]

On the second floor, last room to the right, Terry was setting his mother’s clothes in the bedroom nightstand when he heard a knock from behind him.

*Knock* *Knock* “Can I come in, Terry?” Rainbow dash said leaning on the door frame.

“Hello, Rainbow dash. If you need to see my mother she is with Rarity shopping at the mall to get new cloths for me and Mike.”

“She is, is she?” Taking a few steps toward him, his back still turned in front of here, she wrapped her arms around Terry’s neck, and started to kiss his cheek.

“Ms. Dash, do you need something from me?” Terry asked her.

“Yeah, I do.” Turning him to face her, Rainbow dash put both her hands on his face and locked lips with his.

Rainbow released his face and took a few steps back, her wings slowly rising from the kiss and asked Terry.

“Maybe you could help with my things in my room?”

“I would be happy to help, Rainbow dash. But I don’t know when my mother will be back.”

“You know, when I thought dating my best friend’s son in secret would be romantic, you’re kind of ruining the romantic parts.” She said glumly.

“I know I promised you a night just for the two of us. But tonight I need to be somewhere, Rainbow dash.”

“You mean your job?”

“I shouldn’t even be telling you what I do, but I did, to show you how much I treasure our relationship.” Reaching for her hands, Terry kissed Rainbow dash for a brief moment and rested his forehead with hers.

“Are you sure you don’t want me to tag along?”

“Knowing you won’t tell any of your friends, especially my mother, is enough for me.”

“Yeah, well, I still don’t trust that Anon character.”

“He saved my life, Rainbow. If he didn’t stop Blueblood from pulling the trigger Jonah and I would be dead.”

“But it was his idea to split up in the first place!”

“I know, I know, but he’s the leader, and with good reason, if the order wants him to take charge I must follow their rules.”

“Promise me you won’t get hurt like last time, Ok?” Holding him tighter, Terry reached out his right hand and gently patted her head, to show his concern for her worries.

“We’ll be leaving at midnight; can you stall them in case they might find us not in the basement?” He asked her.

“I promise, Terry.” Rainbow said to him.

“You should probably go back to your room, so it won’t be suspicious as to why you’re in here with me without my mother.”

“Alright, I’ll see you later, Terry.” With a peck on his cheek, she walked outside to the hall way leaving Terry alone in his mother’s room.

“Now, where was I?” Getting back to his work he did not pay attention to the mare from the front desk getting closer and closer. Her hand slowly trailed down her leg and lifted her skirt to reveal a sharp dagger underneath, as she got closer to Terry she made sure her steps became quieter and quieter before she was in knifes lengths for her to stab him in the back before he could react to what’s going to happen.

*Ka-Klick* “I advise you to not take another step, if you value your life that is, lady.” Jonah said pointing his blunder bust at the mare’s head.

“Do you think you’re fast enough to pull that trigger before I shove my blade in your friend’s skull, human?” She said still ready to take down one of these teens before the other takes her life.

“Trust me when I say this, but I am saving your life than taking it.”

“And what are you trying to save me from?” She asked him.

“If you just looked down you’d see what I am trying to save you from.”

“Do you think of me a fool? What if you’re just stalling so your friend can move before you fire?”

“Either way, you’re still going to lose so you might as well listen to me.”

Seeing as she has no other choice she looked down to her feet, her knife still trained on Terry’s head, and was surprised to see a  brown snake just a few inches from her leg, fangs dripped with poison ready to bite her.

“So, are you going to put the weapon down?” Jonah asked.

“As if I had a choice in the first place, I surrender.” Dropping her blade she raised both her hands to show she is defenseless and walked away from Terry.

“You can call off your snake, Terry”

“Thank you, Jonah; I am actually glad you had to pull out your gun first and not me.” Turning around to see Jonah, Terry had a pistol ready to fire just in case the female assassin decided to take out Jonah.

“You had a gun and you didn’t use it?”

“I don’t like to fire my gun, if and all possible, and what would you tell the rest of our group if they heard a loud gunshot with you holding the weapon?”

“We can discuss this later; right now we need to deal with her.” Jonah said focusing his attention back to the silent mare.

“Your right, Jonah, we need to ask her a few questions.” Setting aside his pistol Terry closed the gap between him and the front desk clerk, but still had his pet snake ready to bite her if things go out of hand.

“Who are you?”

“I am, Holiday.” She replied.

“Hello, Holiday. My name is, Terry.”

“And I’m Jonah.”

“Now, I ask you again. Who are you?” Terry asked a bit more serious.

“What do you mean? My names, Holiday.” She replied a bit off-guard from being asked twice.

“Are you sure? Because the Holiday I just saw passed me when I came here to find Terry.” Jonah said. To show the two boys mean business, Jonah cocked the hammer of his gun and pointed his gun again, but was ready to fire with little care if anyone heard them.

*Sigh* “If you insist on pushing this further, than I suppose I have no choice.” As soon as she finished her sentence a light green flame engulfed her being, causing the two humans to step back from surprise to see a half-pony-bug creature now in front of them.

“Does this form disgust you, humans?” She asked lifting her hole riddled hands in front of her face so her eyes can see their shocked faces.

“We are very surprised.” Terry replied.

“Either way, I am still going to shoot you, no hard feelings.” Jonah was about to pull the trigger to kill the changeling when Terry came in front of his gun making him pause.

“Jesus, I almost shot you, Terry!”

“We need to get our leader first before we do anything else, Jonah.”

“Then who is going to watch over her, you?” Jonah asked.

“………”

*Grunts* “Fine, take my gun I am sure you need it more than me, I’m going to get Anon, make sure you shoot her in case she does anything funny.” As soon Jonah quickly left the room, Terry looked back at the Changeling still standing in one place still looking at the only exit Jonah went out of.

“I am glad you stayed, I am sure you could have left while me and my friend was still fighting.”

“And what if I leave now? I know you friend would of shot me if I lifted a single finger, but what about you?”

“I said I don’t like to use my guns to shoot anyone. But this isn’t my gun, so I don’t know what I’ll do.”

The conversation ended between them when Jonah came back with Anon in tow. His face had a brief shocked moment of the Changeling in front of him but left immediately as he said the Changeling.

“Why are you here, Double?”

“Wait, you know this mare, Anon!” Jonah said now surprised about how he knew her name.

“Yeah, I should know, since she is my informant.”

“Is that even allowed? Does the order know of this?” Terry asked him.

“The order should know about them, more than eighty percent of our information branch is made of changelings.”

Anon walked closer the changeling, right after he told Terry to put away the gun, and asked the girl why she was here in the first place.

“My queen whishes a hit on a Manehatten Police officer called, Mr. Clad." She stated.

“Is he a Templar or a slaver?” Terry asked her.

“No, he is just the chief if the Manehatten police force.”

“Then why would we kill the dude? Even more, why would we follow the orders from the changeling queen?” Jonah asked, if it was either a Templar or a human slaver he would jump to the task, if not he would just simply ignore her order and just shoot her to end this situation.

“We’ll do it.”

“Yeah, we’ll- wait, what!” Jonah asked, surprised again by Anon's quick agreement to her.

“We’re heading to the morgue anyway, we’ll see if the guy will be there.”

“Can we back up a bit, why would we help the changeling race?” Jonah asked, getting more confused than he did before.

“Jonah has a point; they tried to invade Equestrian land by ruining the wedding of princess Cadence’s wedding.” Terry said.

“Ruined? You mean saved some lives.”

“How did they save anyone from trying to take over the throne? You’re not making any sense, Anon.”

“If you calm down, Jonah, I’ll tell you the full detail.”

“Don’t hold your breath, Anon, if anyone is good at telling what happened that day, it’s me.” Double finally spoke up.

“Then by all means, Double, speak if you don’t mind.” Terry said.

“If you can keep your friend from killing me I will, Terry.”

And so began the back story on how the changeling race decided to have an alliance with the order.

“It all went back before the wedding ever started.”

“How far back are we talking about?” Jonah asked her.

“If you shut up I’ll tell you. One of your scouting teams was sent to kill a certain special individual, someone who was close to one of the elements of harmony.”

“Shining armor, the older brother of Twilight now known as the princess of harmony.”

“Correct, Anon, he was an up and coming Templar slowly going up the ranks, the order thought they could capture him for answers but was instead caught in Armor's trap instead.”

“So how does this connect to the changelings?”

“Can someone shut Jonah up, please?” She asked.

“Just get on with it, Double.” Anon said.

“Fine, our spies intercepted the information of there capture and our queen decided to use this as leverage to use your order to get what we want.”

“I knew it, they just wanted to use us, not help us.” Jonah said.

“Hold on, Jonah, she’s not finished.”

“Thank you, Terry, my queen thought of taking Cadence’s form to seduce Shining and then propose to him, distracting the sun and moon rulers by trying to make a grand festival of the event.”

“I thought the real princess loved Twilight’s brother?” Terry asked her.

Out of know where, Holiday started to laugh hysterically from his question before she quickly covered her mouth to stop making any more noise.

“The princess may be the ruler of love, but her love is to all her subjects, not to a single pony.”

“But my mother told me she and Shining used their love to stop the queen.” Terry told her.

“When two of the opposite sex have a dramatic experience they can generate flings of emotion, such as a brief form of love, that’s how they defeated our queen.”

“So what happened after your race got blasted out of Canterlot?” Jonah asked her.

“Well, the order got their recon team back without them being noticed and decided to help out our race with our situation with how many lives that was lost that day.”

“And what mutual agreement did the order and your queen make?” Jonah asked her.

“Since our numbers dwindled to near extinction your organization decided to help us by using any free humans they saved and allowed them to live in our hives for shelter, at the same time give my race their supply of emotions, even some assassins had chosen to help the hive by sharing their own emotions.”

“That explains why my teacher has been tired a couple of times when she was teaching me.” Terry said.

“Yeah, so was my teacher. When she always returned back home she looked so ragged she couldn’t stand up. Did this happen to your teacher too, Anon?” Jonah asked him.

“I’m not sure, what type of ways did your kind use to extract human emotions?” He asked her.

“There is a high rate of sexual intercourse between the changelings and humans.” She explained to Anonymous.

“Yeah, I’m pretty sure my teacher also volunteered to help the changelings, more help to her needs than the changeling race I’m sure.”

“We can keep talking about why my race helps the order later; right now my queen wants this stallion dead.” Double said.

“Can you at least tell us why?” Jonah questioned.

“I agree with Jonah. We need some reason why we should end his life, Double.”

“Very well, Anon. Clad somehow stumbled onto one of our hives and wanted to blackmail us if we don’t send out his salt packages.” She explained.

“Salt you say? So we’re dealing with a drug peddling cop?” Jonah asked Double.

“Well, yes, plus he is also trying to increase his prostitution ring by using us as his prostitutes.” She said.

“Don’t you changelings already use your bodies to have sex with all kinds of creature?” Terry asked.

“That’s different from prostitution; we gather genuine love by connecting to different beings, while prostitutes just fuck anything for a quick bit.” She said angrily to him.

“So why doesn’t your queen just go to him personally and fuck him silly? I’m sure she’ll kill the bastard by making the stallion  die from exhaustion.”

“She would, Anon, but the queen prefers to dominate males not the other way around.”

“Alright, I heard what I needed to hear, we’ll get the job done.” Anon said to Double..

“Excellent, meet me at the corner of the hotel at midnight when you’re done, I expect to have this mission to have no slip ups.” And just like that, she vanished when her horn ignited a huge flash of green light, leaving only the three teens to be alone.

“Great, so not only do we need to solve what drug the Templars are using on the humans, but we also need to kill some corrupt asshole before he exposes a changeling hive, how do we complete this mission within only a few days?” Terry asked.

“We just need to get rid of the small things if we want to finish off bigger parts of our plan. First we need to get rid of this police officer before this Clad person decides to rat out to the government.”

“We can’t start now, Mike is still with his mother and we don’t know how long before every one is asleep, Anon.” Jonah said.

“The sun is still up so we can still wait till mike comes back to the hotel. After that, we can all head down to the station to slit this guy’s throat, agreed?”

“Don’t see any problem with that plan.” Jonah said.

“But what about Diamond tiara, won’t she try and try and hold you up before the job gets done?” Terry asked him.

“You just leave it to me, Terry. You don’t live with an over bearing mare for most of your life to not know a few tricks to get her out of your hair.”

“Believe me, Anon, you’re not the only one either.”

One at a time Jonah and Anon left the room, at separate times to make sure no pony would get suspicious; Terry still needed to clean up the any messes left from the scuffle and promised them he would meet up with them at the basement later.

When Anon left when Jonah turned the corner to go downstairs, he was still thinking on how to keep Tiara busy so he can slip away from her for the night.

“Pfft, I’ll just wing it, see what happens. Who knows, maybe she might slip and fall knocking herself out.”

> Kill the unjust law bringer
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Mike POV]

No…no…hell no…is there anything good to buy here?

I have been staring at the same clearance clothes rack for the past hour with no piece of fabric catching my eye. My mother is at the changing room with Fluttershy helping her with holding all of my mother’s clothes. I still need to make sure I stay close to them since the mall does not allow any humans wandering around the mall without their owner, so I made sure to stay near them if mall security decides to throw me out if I am left alone.

Don’t get me wrong, I love my mother and all her flaws, but when it comes to picking clothes I feel like I take a shorter time to pick one out than her. Then again, Terry and Jonah say that we both take too much time shopping with no sense of ever stopping.

“I’m done,” my mother said, opening the door with a few shirts and dresses under her arm, “I appreciate for helping me with holding my stuff, Fluttershy.”

“No problem, Rarity, I'm just glad that we all are able for all of us to go somewhere with our family.”

“Speaking of family, did you find anything you like, Michael?” my mother asked me.

“They don’t really catch my eye, but I am glad that you picked some, Ms. Rarity.”  You told her.

Since I am in the public I have to speak to my mother formally when we are outside, but I can always tell that my mother always feels strange when her own son has to call her by name rather than calling her ‘mother’.

“You mean these,” My mother added her clothes to the massive pile Ms. Fluttershy was already struggling to hold and started to walk deeper inside the mall. “They don't seem right to me, so we should see if there are other places in the mall that might suit our taste.”

“Um, Rarity, can I please put these down now, if it’s ok with you?” Ms. Fluttershy asked her.

“Of course, you can just set it down near the dressing room.” My mother told her.

With a loud ‘thump’ Fluttershy dropped the pile of discarded clothes and walked along side me as the three of us started to find other stores worth looking at.

While the two mares talked about random things I looked around my surroundings to see many humans wearing collars, holding on their master’s belongs, made myself look at a nearby window to see the same collar I have around my neck.

It would be suspicious if any other pony would see me without a collar in a populated area like this place. The laws in Ponyville did not make us wear collars since mayor mare thought it would agitate the protesters even more.

Focusing on something else not collar related, you see a life size cardboard cutout of prince Blue blood on the other side of the store window holding a bottle cologne in his hands with the label saying ‘Blue essence’ stacked behind him with many male buyers in line buying the cheap stink.

Guess since he's dead a lot of people are starting to buy his stuff out of memory… or pity.

“Michael, what are you doing over there?” my mother said to me.

“I think he is looking at the cologne in that store. Maybe he wants to buy one?”

“You mean that putrid stink their selling in there? I tried to by him different styles of cologne and he still doesn’t use them.” Leave it to my mother to know me to well when it comes to my normal life. It would be even more troubling if she uses her perceptive skills to find too much info about me in the far future.

“Ms. Rarity, the ‘cologne’ you buy me was mostly perfume.” I told her.

“I just thought that maybe a different fragrance will be more to your liking.”

As we both argued about smells Fluttershy came between me and my mother and pointed towards a large crowd forming around a muscled Minotaur with what appears to have a syringe in his large hand.

“Hello, if you don’t know me I'll be happy to tell you who I am.” With a quick flick if his other hand the goats behind him started pressing buttons on a black remote making the floors of the stage he was standing on become enveloped by smoke.

“My name is,” Flexing his already huge muscles to show more veins than a constipated bald man  who had bad Saddle Arabian food a run for his money he shouted out his name, “Iron will!”. As soon as he shouted his name a large plume of fireworks shot out of the stage and exploded to spell out his name, in case anyone who was not close, or did not care.

Where is mall security when you need them? I am sure it is bad to have fireworks inside a large mall.

“Are you fed up with weak humans who can’t even lift more things than an earth pony? Tired of having to constantly train them to be fit and lean? Well, I have a solution.” Iron will gestured for two ponies rolling a large covered cage to come onto the stage next to him, pulled the clover, and showed a very muscular human male inside the cage. “With my training and these supplements,” he showed the syringe to everyone again. “In a few days will turn them in to a human worthy of serving you!”

As soon as he was finished finishing his sales speech many ponies who owned humans started to buy his training regiment with their bags of bits in hand, causing a small scale mob making me, my mother, and Terry’s mother to back away from the mess.

Not looking behind me I knocked a bystander down on the floor. Turning around to apologize I saw to the person I knocked over to be a baby blue earth pony stallion, causing me to apologize profusely.

“I’m so sorry, sir, please forgive my incompetence.” With my groveling done I began to bow over and over again as a sign of how deeply sorry I was.

I can’t be too sure how ponies that live in the big city treat humans here, but I can’t take any chances since I am on an important mission that requires all four assassins to cooperate.

“Don’t worry yourself, young man.” Lifting himself off the floor he stuck his hand out in front of me and said, “It was my fault for not watching my surroundings.”

Taking his hand with a firm shake my mother and her friend arrived behind me to also apologize.

“It is quite alright, ma’am. I too wanted to move away from this odd spectacle over there.” Pointing to the mob I see a couple of mares starting to fight each other making a couple of security guards to drag them away. “I am just glad that you decided to not make your human become another trained animal like those ponies.”

“Of course, sir, as much as the physical appearance does look appealing to most mares I still would not make my human take some mystery drug.” Mother said to him.

“I thought I heard that Iron will guy say that it was a supplement?” He questioned.

“I use to have him as a self-help Minotaur back at my home town. Now, I wonder how he became a fitness trainer.” Fluttershy said to him.

“Well, I know that I am relieved to have some ponies, and human, to have some sense in spending their bits wisely. But I need to leave soon, since my shift at the police station is about to begin.” The stallion told us.

“Well, it was nice to meet you, sir. If you ever decide to go to Ponyville, try to find carousal boutique, that’s where I work. My name is Rarity, the mare on my right is my friend Fluttershy, and my butler to my left is named Michael.”

“Thank you, Rarity. I might do that. Oh, and my name is Iron clad, but you can just call me Clad.” Mr. Clad said to us.

We waved good bye and saw him become adrift in the sea of ponies and humans leaving the three of us to go back to our shopping.

[Hotel at Midnight] [3rd person]

“And that was how I spent my afternoon shopping.” Mike said to the group of assassins in their basement as a temporary headquarters. They are already fully dressed and are prepping their equipment while Mike told them his day.

“Holy shit, you found them!” Jonah said to Mike while he cleaned his blunderbuss.

“What do you mean, I know Anon told me that Iron will was our main target, including whatever drug he is using on humans, but who else do we kill?” Mike asked.

“That Mr. Clad you were talking to is our other target to kill.” Terry said.

“What? He seems harmless for us to kill him, why should we kill a pony if they are not a Templar?” Mike asked them.

“That officer is causing major problems to the changeling hive, and if the hive has a problem then it's the Order’s problem too.” Anon said to Mike, “So, Terry, Are you sure that all the mares are on the second floor?”

“I’m positive; I heard Rainbow dash is telling them some ghost stories to keep them occupied,” What Terry did not tell them is that he also asked Rainbow dash if she can serve them some punch laced with some sleeping powder Terry made while on the train. “They will be too scared to even realize we are all gone.”

“Then let’s get the show on the road, let’s get out the window and start some roof climbing.” Mike said.

As Jonah helped Terry remove the shelf hiding the window Anon heard some loud crashing coming outside on their door. Taking a quick peak out the door, his eyes traced up to the large stair case to see Diamond fumbling down the stairs with a bottle of what appears to be alcohol.

“Guys, I think you want to take a look at this.” Anon and his team came out of their room and walked in to the middle of the main room with Diamond gulping down large amounts of liquid.

“My lady, why are you here in the middle of the night, shouldn’t you be a sleep?” asked Anon.

“Shut up, you monkey! I hate you and your stupid friends!” She shouted.

“We’re not really friends, more like work acquaintances.” He explained.

“I said to shut up,” She took another swig. “I actually wanted an adult human from Zebrica, because I saw pictures about how their better and bigger than Equestrian humans.”

“Miss Tiara, I think you’re drunk, and also maybe a bit racist towards humans.” Jonah told her.

“I wasn’t talking to you! What's even worse than a human talking to me, is a human who lives with the hillbillies called the Apple family.”

“Anon, you better get her to calm down, or else I might do something I might regret.” Jonah said to him with agitation.

“I can’t believe she is not affected by my sleeping agent. She must have snagged the wrong bottle.” Terry whispered.

“What was that, Terry?’ Mike asked.

“Nothing, I was just talking to myself.”

“All of you just SHUT UP! And why are you all dressed  so weirdly? I'm going to tell-” Taking quick steps down the stairs her left hoof slipped, causing her to fall all the way down clutching the bottle securely while the rest of her body took all the damage.

The first to recover from this new dilemma was Terry. Crouching down next to her, Terry started to examine her if she has any serious injuries or not.

“Oh, thank God. She did not suffer any severe injuries, she just needs to lay off the booze and need some rest.” Terry told the group.

With the help of Jonah and Mike to carry her off to sleep in her room, Anon was left behind to clean out some of the alcohol stains, but he had other things on his mind.

That… was… AWSOME! Thank you, God. I am a little bit more faithful to human religion.

After a few minutes of scrubbing and some quick happy dancing, Mike, Terry, and Jonah came down with some fresh battle scars to boot.

“Damn, we’re not even starting the mission and you three already looked like you battled a veteran Templar.”

“She may look like a young mare at first glance, but she sure can kick like my big sister Applejack.” Jonah said while rubbing his bruised arm.

“We can safely say that since she was drunk she could not feel too much pain from the fall, but I am also hoping she will think that what happened last night will be a dream.” Terry said.

“Well, let’s hurry before any more problems start.” Mike said impatiently.

Going back to the basement the young assassins exited out the window and started to climb to the top of the hotel roof. Anon used his eagle vision to spot the police station, and started to give the other three assassins orders. 

“Ok, Mike, I need you to be positioned near the police station to get a higher vantage point.”

“On it, Anon,” Mike said leaving the group behind with his weapon loaded and ready to fire.

“Jonah, you’re on ground control. If any Templar at the bottom finds me and Terry running on roofs it’s your job to take them out, but be sure to only kill Templars and no one else.”

“Understood, Anon,” Jumping down off the hotel Jonah took out his axe from its sheath and started to scout below, Leaving Terry and Anon the only two left.

“Well, Terry I hope you’re not afraid of a little bit of distance between us and the ground.”

“Don’t worry, the castle was more freighting then what we’re about to do, Anon.”

“Well, my mentor always said a free run is much better with a friend.”

“Oh, we’re friends now? Not five minutes ago did you say to Diamond that we’re ‘work acquaintances’?”

“Diamond tends to be a bit jealous if she knows if I have more friends than her. I mean, her only friend is literally Silver spoon I see no one else visiting the mansion.”

“That sounds nice, um, but aren’t we supposed to run?” Terry asked Anon.

“Oh, right, let’s go do that.” Dashing to the edge of the room, Anon leaped across to the next roof followed by Terry.

Roof by roof the two assassins ran with agile and grace as they leaped and bounded across the modernized landscape. Though, it was not the same for Jonah.

“GAAAH- BLEH!” Shouted the guard, before her head was sent flying when Jonah’s axe separated her head from her neck.

Not just a few blocks away from the hotel. Jonah confronted a patrol squad heading towards the police station. He counted a least six guards all carrying pistols, police batons, and at least one unicorn.

Taking care of the unicorn first with a swift beheading, Jonah grabbed the lifeless body and tossed it towards an earth pony about to fire her gun. He then ran to the guard to close the gap between them and stabbed her throat with his hidden blade.

Seeing as Jonah was busy killing the second officer, the third ran at Jonah with a police baton hoping to give the cop killer a fatal head injury, but Jonah’s quick reflexes was fast enough to dodge the blunt weapon and used his other hand to plunge his axe right between the third cop’s shoulder and neck.

Removing his hidden blade from the second dead guard, Jonah tried to take out his axe, but it was too deep inside to even budge from Jonah’s attempt to remove it. Seeing him struggle for his weapon, the remaining cops decided to attack altogether to end the conflict.

The closest to reach Jonah first had her head pierced by the spike at the opposite side of Jonah’s axe when it was finally released from the third dead cop's body, the second closest tried a strike to his end, and was dodged when Jonah ducked under and swung his axe upward chopping her entire face clean off from the rest of her head.

Seeing as the last standing cop was vastly out matched by this mysterious cop killer, she decided to run away so she can alert any other cops for help. Just when Jonah was about to throw his weapon at the running guard her head exploded leaving only her body to drop on the floor leaving a pool of blood trailing down the streets.

Jonah, now covered in blood from fighting, began to look around his surroundings to see a tiny flash just a few yards ahead of him. 

Waving his hand as a gesture of thanks to Mike for the long shot assistance, Jonah started to take care of the bodies leaving Anon and Terry to handle the rest.

[Police station][Anon 1st person]

“I don’t see a lot of guards; Jonah must have handled them all.” Terry said next to me.

“I’m still surprised that Clad did not hear Mike’s gun going off.” You said.

Both you and Terry are crouched down under Mr. Iron’s window. You told Terry to let his snake slither inside his office to distract him so you two can quickly open the window to finish the job, but that was four minutes ago and you still haven’t heard any screams.

“What the… the hell is this!?” You heard Clad said. Seeing his shadow move erratically signaled you and Terry to move in.

Terry opened the window wide open giving you entrance to his office. Clad decided to stop chasing the snake to see another intruder in his office. Taking his weapon out of his holster, Clad aimed his gun at Anon when he felt a burning sensation coming from his left shoulder, causing him to drop his side arm. You thanked Terry for shooting his blow dart, tackled Mr. Clad, and slit his throat with your blade.

“Ok, it’s done.” You told Terry climbing inside the office.

“My he rest in peace.” Terry preached.

Getting up from the floor you were caught frozen when you spotted some papers on the chief officer’s desk. You picked them up and began to read what Mr. Clad was writing about.

“Oh, Goddammit all to hell!” You shouted making Terry jump from surprise.

“What’s wrong?” He asked.

“They got them; this report says that today in the afternoon. Iron will showed up out of the blue and took all the bodies and evidence.” You told him.

“It’s not all bad. We at least saved an entire hive from being exposed.” Terry pointed out.

“I guess you’re right, I just hate to break the news to the rest of the group.”

“Tell us what? “Mike asked. Just after Mike entered to office, Jonah was the last to enter making you explain what happened.

“Well, shit. Now what do we do?” Jonah asked you.

“For now, we go back to the hotel. We spent too much time here and we can try the next day.”

“But, Anon, tomorrow is when we visit Will’s training center.” Mike explained.

“We can’t push our luck tonight. I'm sure a few police ponies are arriving soon since most of the neighborhood heard your gun going off.” Terry told Mike.

“It wasn’t my fault; if I did not shoot her then she would signal more police officers of Jonah’s presence.”

“Can we just stop already? Did any of you check what time it is?” Jonah asked.

You reached in your pocket for your watch to read it is past four in the morning.

“Day break is about to start, we need to go to the hotel. We can try again tomorrow night, but for now let’s all get the hell out of here.” You told them.

“What about the body?” Terry asked.

With that question, Jonah took out a large bottle of alcohol from his satchel, poured it all over the body, and lit it with a match causing is to burn.

“The body has been taken care of.” Jonah told Terry.

“Nice use with the bottle Diamond was holding, Jonah. But we still need it to be much bigger.” You dropped all the evidence connecting to your mission, and any other flammable objects to make to fire grow more and more, causing you and your team to exit out of where you came in and ran all the way back to your home base.

As you ran, you wonder about your mission and if it will also be engulfed by flames like that police pony. With you and your friends caught in the center.


> Bonus story: Templar point of veiw
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Ponyville]

“What’s wrong with you all? Chaining these intelligent beings like lesser beast! Rise up humans, we will be with you!” She said raising her fist in the air causing the other ponies behind her to do the same.

“Ok, what’s the commotion?” A guard said walking near the protesters.

“You know why, oppressor!” She said.

“Oh, it’s just you, again.” He said casually.

“These lands are supposed to be home of love and tolerance to everyone, why can’t humans be too?”

“Alright, Lyra, this is your third and final strike. You have to come down to the station with me.” Reaching her arm she quickly used her opposite hand and slapped him causing the other ponies behind her to start fighting the other guards coming to rescue their fellow worker.

As the riot continues to grow more and more it was the sound of a gun going off that really set the market go straight to hell. The one who got was the guard who got slapped from the mint green unicorn. As his blood poured out of the massive hole from his head, a dark blue hooded figure climbed down a tree, planted the weapon on a dead human, and turned to the two guard mares what to do.

“Wait a couple of hours and give them this body, say that you both had no choice but to use deadly force to apprehend this killer.”

“Yes ma’am.” They said in unison.

Dragging the body somewhere else the hooded figure pulled down the hood to let reveal a young boy, his long onyx hair falling down to his shoulders  as he looks back at the fighting down below.

“I really wish they can tell I am a boy.” He said glumly.

“Maybe if you cut your hair they can tell you’re a guy.” Another male voice said.

Turning around to see who is behind him, he saw another hooded figure leaning his back on the tree.

“Your late, saint fleur, you were supposed to take the shot.”

“Not my fault, I needed to help my dad with a charity at Canterlot. Also, can you just call me Saint; I hate it when other uses my full name.”  Taking his hood down to show his face, Saint moved his head left and right to let his long blond hair flow down to his elbows, his bright blue eyes looking down at the market began to tell his friend the news.

“Orpheus is with his mother helping her at a club down in Manehatten.”

“Then we should get back to the castle, I need to file my report for the day.” Rummaging in his pocket, he pulled out a large red sack, threw it in the air, fired his gun, and a plume of red scattered around them as a signal for retrieval.

After the red cloud dissipated from the sky, a golden chariot flew down from the sky and landed next to the two humans.

“Seriously, I just came from Canterlot an hour ago, and now I’m going back.”

“I’m sure an hour at the castle spa will help you change your mind.” He said to Saint.

Weighing his options, Saint jumped in the chariot and said, “You know, I heard Canterlot is especially wonderful this time of year.

[Canterlot Castle]

“AAHHH… yeah right on that spot, I really need this every time we come back from a mission.” Saint said as his back is being massaged.

“Enjoy it while you can, as soon as the maids tell word that we returned she’s going to come get us.” He said taking a soak in an herbal hot spring.

“Mostly you, I mean she is your-“

“Sir,” A guard rushed in and interrupted Saint’s sentence. “She needs you in your chambers immediately.”

*Sigh* “I knew this would happen,” Leaving the hot springs he grabbed his cloths and headed to his room. “I will see you at the dinner table in a few, Saint”

“Take your time, dude. I’m going to finish up with a good foot message.”

Walking along the guard to his room, he opened the twin doors to be face-to-face with the night ruler, Princess Luna.

“Thank you, guard. Leave us be.” She told him. He bowed, turned around, and closed the do leaving only the two in the room.

Right in front of him is the other co-ruler of Equestria and the ruler of the night realm and the dream realm. No one dares to be in her presence for long, since she is well known for her cold stare and over powering presence makes any one fear her.

*GLOMP* with a quick motion from her arms she embraced the boy and lifted him up in the air. Her cold expressionless face soon morphed in to a happy face full of joy for holding the young man.

“It’s good to see you again, mother.”

“NO!” Dropping her son on the floor she began to shout at him. “Do not call me ‘mother’ you call me MAMA!”

*Sigh*”Yes…mama.” He said uncomfortably to her.

“YAY,” Hugging her child again, she put him back down and asked him what he did.

“I just finished a small assassination from a guard who was secretly human sympathizer who was working as a guard in Ponyville. By now the spies I planted in the town will not only take down any other guards secretly helping human slaves, but put all the blame on that little radical group slowly gaining some popularity.”

“Congrats, Artemis, I expect no less from our most skilled Templar. Come, let us meet my sister at the dinner table, I’m sure your friend will be there.”

Walking besides her to the large dining room, Artemis saw Saint scarfing down plates of waffles and drinking large quantities of milk. Giving him a hand of as acknowledgment, Artemis sat next to his mother and waited for his meal to arrive.

As they ate their food in silence the two humans and alicorn heard the doors opened as Princess Celestia enter the room and sat next to her younger sister.

“Nice to see you, Luna, Artemis, and I see that Saint Fleur is already feeling right at home in the castle.” She said looking at Saint scarfing down waffles and downing them with maple syrup.

“It is also nice to see you as well, sister, but where is your-“ As she was about to ask her question, the doors swung wide open and a small white blur ran across the table and tackled the solar ruler down to the floor.

“Mommy!” The little boy shouted gleefully.

“There’s my little sun shine.” She said to him. On top of the solar ruler was a young boy with dirty blond short hair, bright azure eyes, and suntanned skin who was holding his mother his a hug.

“I thought you were still studying your math, Apollo?” Celestia asked her son. Getting back up from the floor she sat back on her chair with the added weight of her child on her lap.

“I already knew my math, so I finished early.” Apollo told her.

Seeing as the two had their own conversation, Luna looked back at her son eating his scrambled eggs without saying another word to her. Luna looked back at her sister, Celestia, feeding Apollo breakfast gave her a bright idea with Artemis. 

“Artemis, do you want to sit on your mama’s lap, like old times?” She asked him.

“Are you actually asking your 22 year old son if he should sit on your lap?” He asked skeptically.

“Don’t try and make your mama sound like a creeper. Now, open wide, I want you to try this new dish the chef made.” Taking a little scoop with her spoon, Luna pointed it to Artemis and waited for him to open his mouth and eat it.

“Are you now asking your 22 year old son to be spoon fed?” Artemis asked her again.

“Hey, at least she’s trying to make a family moment with you, dude.” Saint told Artemis.

“Speaking of family moment, I’m going on a little stroll with Apollo, so I am leaving to rest to you, Luna” Leaving to dining room, Celestia held her son’s hand and left the small group alone.

Seeing as her chance for having a moment with her son is over, Luna’s face turned back to her emotionless demeanor and gave the two Templars the new mission.

“If you haven’t heard the newspaper yet, then I will inform you that Prince Blueblood was killed.”

“We know that already, ma’am.  Most of the people and the ponies working at the castle held a small celebration.” Saint told Luna.

“Then you must already know that the culprit was the griffons. My sister and I will be heading at a neutral zone with the griffons to discuss this matter and hopefully not start a war in the process.”

“Do you wish for us to infiltrate their country and see if they plan to attack while you are away?” Artemis asked her.

“No, what we’re really worried are the Templars in our country, there are a few who use their title as Templar for their own gain, so I need you and your Team to see that they won’t harm to innocent ponies.”

“And if they do act out of line, then it is our job to exterminate any who tries to upset the peace.” Artemis said to his mom.

“Precisely, and I already have a target for you to look in to,” Luna used her horn to teleport some files and gave each to her son and to his friend.

“Your target is Iron will; he is using a fitness gym as a cover to use humans as experiments for a drug too dangerous for ponies.” Luna said.

“The report says he also lives at Manehattan. Hey, didn’t I say Orpheus was staying at Manehatten?”

“Then it is also imperative to form your team and kill Iron will.” Luna told them.

“We’ll get the job done,” Artemis stood out of chair and looked at Saint. “Get to the armory; just get the essentials for the trip. I’ll make sure I can get in touch with the police at Manehatten, so they can give us some support.”

“Be on your guard, Templars. Iron will is not be your only enemy; our intelligence also reports that a team of assassins are also in the area.”

Leaving the dinner table, Artemis walked alone down the main castle hall way to find Princes Celestia playing with her child outside at the garden. Seeing the two together made Artemis wonder why so many rumors of her being an uncaring goddess towards humans made him exit the hall and enter the garden to meet them without a second thought.

“Excuse me for interrupting you two, but can I talk to you Princess, in private.” Artemis said to her.

Sensing the troubles haunting her nephew, Celestia made Apollo go back to his room, and talked to Artemis. 

“What can I do you for, Artemis? I’m sure my sister told you what you need to do, but I can give you some help if you need it.”

“No, I’m just curious as to why Apollo and I are the only Templars you seem to be most fond of? We’re humans, but you treat us differently than the other humans at the castle, so I just want to know why we have the special treatment.”

Celestia was silent, Artemis was about to ask her again when she started laughing. Wiping away a stray tear from her eye, she put her hands over her nephew’s shoulders, and gave them a squeeze of assurance. 

“It’s because you and Apollo are very special. Now, I think it’s time for you to get ready for your trip.” Turning around to leave him, Artemis was made even more confused before he decided to forget her answer and went back at the task at hand.

[The next day]

For the past five hours on the train ride to Manehatten, the two Templars were sitting in silence cleaning their weapons when Saint finally broke the silence.

“So, did you get the call from the Chief of police?” He asked Artemis.

“Yeah, Mr. Clad, who is our police support gave me some info on what we’re up against.”

“What enemies will we fight?”

Taking a small folder out of his coat pocket, Artemis gave it to Saint for him to see.

“There’s a list of missing humans for the past few months, he also told me that when he finally found them they were changed into to some monstrous creatures. With no other choice, he gave the order to kill them all, I’m planning to head to the station and see the autopsy of the bodies and see if we can get any evidence that can connect it to Iron will.” Artemis informed Saint on his news.

Taking a moment to look at this new information, Saint gave the folder back to Artemis, and went back to cleaning his crossbow.

“Hopefully we can get Orpheus this information in time, we’re going to need his tracking skills to find the assassins if their trying to kill Iron will before us.” Saint said.

Just when Artemis was about to talk again, they heard a group of mares entering their train cart causing the two to quickly put their hoodies on before they entered. The first mare to be in their sights was the Princess of Harmony, Twilight sparkle, with her friends with her including four younger mares. Artemis did not want any other ponies in the train, that’s why he told the pony in charge of the train that this cart should be reserved for just them. 

He didn’t want any pony to see them, not because their shouldn’t be a human in any part of the train other than the back, but if any pony ever found out that there was humans working under the princess’s as Templars will cause a major scandal that could put more stress to the public following the death of Prince Blueblood. Waiting for the last mare to leave, Artemis and Saint pulled back their hoodies and discussed what they were talking about before they were interrupted.

“Do you think Princess Celestia ordered Twilight and her friends to help?” Saint asked Artemis.

“Unlikely, she doesn’t want anyone, even her former student, to know that we exist.” Artemis said.

“Well, let’s try and make sure we have no way of interacting with them when we reach the city. And speaking about city,” Pointing his finger out the window, Artemis looked out to see the city of Manehattan just a few yards away.

Getting their belongings ready for leaving, Artemis wondered if the Former elements of harmony are here, does that mean their humans are here with them.  Waving that thought away, Artemis looked back at Saint to see him fully geared and ready.

“I hope the assassins aren’t already at Manehattan, it would be great if we have the advantage of being here before them.” Saint said to Artemis.

“It could be a possibility, what are the odd that the Assassins are already here with us, right?”




> Another Templar side story
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

“Princess Celestia, do you think Blue blood was harboring humans to trade with the griffons for weapons?”

“Princess Luna, is there any other suspects within the Canterlot government have any other dark secrets that both of you don’t know of?”

After the past eight hours of discussing with the Griffon embassy about what happened at the party the two sisters were trapped again with a swarm of reporters.

“We will all answer your questions later, but my sister and I both need to head back to our home to discuss the matter personally. After all, Blue blood was our nephew and we still haven’t set up his funeral. Now, if you excuse us.” Cealestia and Luna entered their chariot giving the driver the signal to take off. For a brief five minutes the two sisters let out a long sigh of relief before relaxing on the plush seats.

“Well, that went well, sister.” Luna said sarcastically.

“Quite, at least we have some favors from the Griffon ambassador from this little incident.” Celestia said to her sister.

“What I want to do now is just go home.” Luna told her older sister.

Silently nodding to Luna as a sign of agreement, the sisters heard a loud knock coming from the outside. Opening the side window Celestia spotted a grey pegasus flapping her wings with a note in her hand signed to her.

“Thank you, mailmare,” Taking the letter from the messengers hand the solar monarch levitated a small bag of bits to the blonde haired pegasus, closed the window, opened the letter, and started to read out loud for Luna to hear.

“I would like to inform you that we have safely arrived to Manehatten and are staying at a hotel as our temporary headquarters.” Celestia stopped to look at her sister to see how she reacted. After hearing her older sister read the letter her son written she became less tense after hearing that her only son is safe and nodded to Celestia to keep reading.

“We still have our third member missing, but I am sure that Saint and I can handle the mission by ourselves. I also like to inform you that we spotted Iron Will entering the police station and leaving with a cart full of boxed cargo that I assume are his failed weapons. I will report to you after our mission is done.” Folding the paper in half she used her magic to ignite the letter to smoke and waited for Luna to put her thought in the matter.

“I’m sure that that Artemis and his friend aren’t the only ones trying to kill our corrupt employee.”

“Right, I won’t be surprised if the next letter he sends us will be about the assassins trying to interfere with our plans.”

“Speaking of plans, what about the funeral for Blueblood?” Luna asked.

“I already sent some ponies I trust to make Blueblood’s funeral to be a private gathering. The one who really found our nephew’s corpse was Apollo trying to hide from his nanny again. That whole ordeal really shook him up, but I’m glad that my son can sleep save at night with your help, Luna.” Celestia said.

“It was not me who helped Apollo, sister, I checked his dreams and the one who was really helping him sleep soundly was you.”

After hearing Luna said that to her sister, Celestia smiled and looked ahead out the window even more anxious to go home and hug her son. Luna was happy about her sister, but at the same time she was even more jealous of how strong the bond Celestia has between Apollo who is not even a pony made their bond even more special.

If only Artemis can just give me another chance.


“Still having trouble, Luna?” Celestia asked.

“Is it that obvious?”

“Give it some time, Luna, you can’t just force your way back in your son’s life after what happened.”

Being reminded about why Artemis is so disconnected by his mother made Luna wish she can go back in time and tell her past self not to do that one stupid mistake that made her innocent little boy into a cold detached man he was today.

“Luna, how could you have known you were going into heat on your son’s birthday? I am sure he would have forgiven you.” Celestia said.

“Yeah, but it was the fact that I had sex with those new recruits during his birthday that made him angry with me. To make it even worse was that my heat season was so bad I did not notice the room I was using was Artemis’s room.” Just telling out loud made her memories even more vivid.

She remembered her son’s Birthday, the two guards (one was grey coated unicorn the other a white pegasus) she was having sex with at the same time in her son’s room, limbs and moans erupting, and then Artemis entering out of the blue, his face showing a pure innocent smile slowly turning into a confused stare before running away crying.

After that incident, Artemis was not the same smiling child she loved. Artemis became distant, he started to not talk to her, eat next to her, and he even made his personal maid burn his entire bed that Luna used to fuck the two guards.

“Curse this body! Being alone on the moon for a thousand years made me more sensitive to my heat flashes.” Luna said grimly.

“He at least started to sit next to you again.” Celestia said to Luna trying to make her sister happy.

“Maybe, but that still doesn’t excuse me for doing sexual acts on my son’s bed. I was so embarrassed of what I did that I decided to make my son train to be a Templar to make him forget the incident rather than talking about what happened.”

“No wonder he rather prefers to be around female guards then male ones.” Celestia said as a matter of fact.

“OH! I am a horrible mama!” Opening her side window she stuck her head out and shouted.

“Artemis, if you can hear me then please forgive your poor excuse for a mama!"

[Somewhere in Manehatten]

*Brrrr*”Did you close the window, Saint? I’m still cold as fuck over here.” Artemis said clutching his blanket over his body.

“Yeah, dude, if you’re still cold then just go to bed and I’ll wake you up if something happened.” Saint said.

With the two Templars now living in an apartment, thanks to the Celestia pulling a few strings, Artemis and Saint were staying at a high class room, looking down at the police station, and waiting if Iron will might return for more. The two have been watching the same building for so long that they did not see the clock showing midnight.

“We just need more proof of what he’s doing and then we can finish him off.” Artemis said to Saint.

“Yeah, yeah- Oh shit! That’s got to hurt!” Saint shouted out loud, looking through his telescope.

“What do you mean? What are you looking at Saint, did something happen?”

“No, no, no I’m just looking at this guy who’s- damn he just sliced that guard’s face right off her head!”

“What,” Getting off the couch Artemis shoved his friends aside to see what was happening on the streets. “Shit! That’s an Assassin down there. Come on, Saint, we need to get down there.”

“Ok, just please use the elevator this time I-“Right before saint was about to finish talking Artemis leaped out of the window, closed both his arms to his sides, and activated his wing suits to glide safely down to a nearby building.

“Hate having to use our wing suits.” Seeing as he has no say in the matter Saint followed suit and glided down where Artemis landed.

“Next time, warn me when you decided to do jump down a high building, because I’m not going to do it again.” Saint told Artemis.

“Oh, shut up, we had our wing suits on the whole time, so we were never really going to die.” Artemis said.

“Look, just because the scientist at the castle says their invention is save doesn’t mean they still used humans to try out their failed prototypes.” Saint told Artemis.

“Can we talk about this later, we still need to catch the assassin and saw him running down the road leading to the station.”

While the two were running on roof tops, they stopped and found another body with the head completely gone.

“How the hell did our happy-go-lucky killer get up here so fast?” Saint asked.

With a fraction of a second, Artemis shoved Saint behind a ventilation shaft, drew his dagger out of its sheath, and used it as a mirror to find the mystery shooter.

“Did you think the shooter found us already?”

“If he did, then we would be dead by now.” Artemis answered.

For a brief moment of silence, the two thought they were safe before a light flashed behinds them making both templars turn around to face a police mare holding a lantern.

“Freeze, human! I don’t how you humans got up here, but I’m going to take under arrest.”

“Shit, I knew we forgot something to bring our papers to notify why we’re here before we decided to jump out the window.”

Artemis on the other hand, did not want to be arrested. He thought that the chief of police would have already notified his police force about why there here, but apparently they didn’t get the memo. Right when the both humans lifted their arms in the air as a sign of surrender, they heard a loud *bang* coming from out of nowhere and the next thing they saw was the officer’s head scattering all over the roof.

“Holy shi- mph!” Artemis covered Saint’s mouth, dragged him back to hide, and left the body lying on the cement floor.

“Stay down, shut up, and follow me.” Artemis low crawled followed by his friend to the end of the room and began to climb down to street level.

“The streets should give us more cover then the roof.”

“Sure,”

“The problem right now is we need to double time our run to find where the assassin went.”

“I don’t think that’ll be a problem,” Pointing out his finger Saint showed Artemis a trail of bodies leading down an empty road giving them a path to follow.

“Come on,” Artemis said to Saint.

“Yeah, follow the fucking bloody brick road.” He said sarcastically.

Running alongside the thick blood path, Artemis and Saint reached the police station and climbed the roof to have a better vantage point of where the culprit is, but made sure to stay down to hide if the sniper is still around.

“Ok, so, when our culprit is spotted we ambush him and use our numbers to overpower him.”

“Hey, can you tell me again why you hate your mom?” Saint asked him out of the blue.

“Are we really bringing this back up?”

“I just want to know why”

“Are you serious? Fine, during my birthday I went to my room since the butlers told me they found her in there, so I entered in my room and guess what I saw?” Artemis looked over at Saint.

“Uhh,”

“I found her have sex with not one, but fucking two castle guards! And did you know what her grand parenting scheme was? She decided to make her son train to be a templar, so I can repress that god awful memory, and did you know what happened instead?”

“Um,”

“It just made even more pissed at her! Now, I know why my mother did it, my private tutor told me mares have heat seasons and need sexual release, but my mother also told me that even in heat mares should only have sex with the pony they will love forever or with a trust worthy friend to be a cooler.”

“Wait, what’s a cooler?”

“A cooler is another female who has a strap on that produce some weird liquid shit that’s supposed to calm down a mare in heat, but enough about weird sex toys, I’m trying to tell you why I don’t like my mom.”

“Ok, ok, keep talking.” Saint said while gesturing his hands for Artemis to keep on talking.

“Well, those guards weren’t coolers and she was fucking two at the same fucking time, so not only did she lie about friends to trust releasing sexual tension from heat seasons, but apparently having sex with somepony as a sign of love was also a motherfucking lie!” With that final remark Artemis was left feeling more and more angry before taking a deep breath and calming himself down.

“That’s why I despise my mother.”

“Well, Artemis, there is a word for people like you and it is called ‘mommy issues.’” Saint told him.

“I don’t want that coming from someone who hates their mother more than me.” Artemis said.

“Can’t you just forgive your mother? It was a simple mistake.”

“Did you not hear that my mother sent me off to god knows where to be a templar just because I saw her banging some random stallions?”

“I’m sure she’s turn up inside for that incident. Hell, you can’ have her take all the blame. What about those two guards she was having sex with?” Saint asked.

“Oh, I already had taken my wrath on them the day after my birthday party. I framed them by stashing some illegal salt in their lockers and now their imprisoned with a bail price of one million bits.” Artemis said with a happy grin on his face.

“Wow, you are one vengeful son of a bitch.”

“Now, that’s not true, my mother is not a diamond dog, but a perverted, old mare who can’t even keep her legs closed whenever there’s a stallion nearby!” Artemis said even more angrily then before.

“Look, you’re an adult now you should forgive your mom and- *sniff* *sniff* do you smell something burning?” Saint asked sniffing the air.

Looking down to the streets the two humans found smoke rising out of the police station.

“Oh, shit. Did we just have a huge talk about terrible parents that we literally forgot about catching the cop killer?” Saint asked.

“Come on! We need to see if there are survivors!” jumping down from the roof, Artemis and Saint entered from the front of the building and searched if there were ponies still trapped inside.

“There’s no one else here, Artemis! We need to get out of here before we burn to a crisp!” Saint shouted.

“What about Mr. Clad?” picking a door by random Artemis slammed it open with his shoulder and entered in the room to find a burning corpse inside.

“I think I found what started the fire, and found the chief of police.” Artemis said.

“Just great, the one pony we need to talk to and he’s already dead!” Saint said to Artemis.

“Ok, we need to leave, now!”

“Way ahead of you, my friend, I’ll see you at the hotel!” Saint shouted at Artemis outside of the station.

“Oh, you asshole, you don’t leave a teammate behind!” running outside toward his friend and hid behind a dumpster in an alley before a squad of police mares showed up alongside the fire department.

“Shit, this is not good.”

“We lost our only pony that can give us some help. The only person we need to help us now is Orpheus, and we still don’t know where he is.” Artemis said.

“Come on, Artemis, it’s not going to be that hard.” Saint said while scavenging inside the dumpster.

“And how pray tell will we find him?” Artemis asked.

‘With this,” Saint handed his friend a crumpled piece of paper as evidence.

Artemis straightened out the dirty poster and looked at an ivory unicorn wearing shades playing as a DJ at a night club tomorrow night, but what really caught Artemis’s eye was the dark figure behind the stage.

“You see where I’m getting at, right?” Saint asked.

Squinting his eyes closer Artemis finally realized why this mystery person looks so familiar was because the human behind the stage was Orpheus. Artemis looked back at Saint brushing off small scraps of trash from his cloths and told him.

“You know, when was the last time we ever been inside a night club?” Artemis asked with a small grin forming on his lips.

“It’s been too long, my friend, to, too long.” Told saint also matching the grin Artemis has.

Waiting about half an hour both humans found an opening of escaping and ran out of the scene of the crime.

“By the way, Saint, you never told me why you hate your mom.”

Slowing down his pace to match Artemis, he decided to tell him why.

“Since you told me I guess I should tell you. Do you know who my mom is, right?”

“Yeah, Ms. Fleur is a most popular mare and has- well had a trophy husband before the scandal.” Artemis answered. 

“Yup, well, you’re right that my mother married my dad, Mr. Fancy pants, but apparently she decided to cheat on him with someone else for the past three years.” Saint explained.

“Wow, is that why she’s no longer living at home with you and your dad?” Artemis asked.

“Yup, and I still can’t find who she was having an affair with, but I can tell you now, if I ever see that motherfucker I am going to personally ruin his life like he did with mine.” Saint said with a deadly tone resonating with his inner hate just waiting to be unleashed on the pony that ruined his family.

[Somewhere else]

*Brrr* “Hey, Jonah, can you close the window I’m getting cold.” Mike said clutching his blanket for warmth.

“Dude, the window is closed just go to bed.” Jonah said half awake.

“Fine, must have been my imagination, but if I get a cold I’m going to blame you.” Mike complained.

“Whatever, just be ready for tomorrow we have a long day ahead of us.” Jonah replied and went back to sleep.

“I could have sworn I still felt really cold for a moment, but I’ll worry about it later. I mean, it’s not like something bad is going to happen, right?”

> Reality setting in
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

“Hey, Anon, wake up its morning.” Mike said to you while shaking you at the same time.

Pushing his hand away from you, you got out of bed and stretched yourself awake and turned to talk to mike.

“Oh my god, what hell is on your face?” You asked him.

What you didn’t expect to wake up in the morning was that his face was covered in some kind of white substance completely covering his facial features.

“Oh, you mean this?” Mike waved his hand around his face to show what he means. “This is to help get rid of unwanted black heads and acne. You should try some, since I can clearly see some starting to form on your cheeks.” He told you.

“Yeah, I’ll pass thanks.” Looking around the basement, you did not see Jonah or Terry in the room, but only Mike and yourself.

“Where are the rest of us?” You asked him.

“Jonah and Terry are with the girls helping with their stuff. Their dropping us four to the gym, remember?”

“Yeah, I remember. It might give us some insight on what Iron will’s base is like.”

“Excellent, then I also hope you would like to use proper attire for your work out.” Mike said to you.

“What do you mean? I thought we would just go there and act like we’re exercising, not actually exercising.”

“This is why we need to proper disguise for the job, of course.” Walking to his large trunk, Mike pulled out heaps of clothing on his bed and turned to me with black shorts and a red shirt.

“I’m sure this would be to your liking. It’s simple, breathable fabric, and it’s just the right size for you.” Mike said to you with a smile.

“You just getting your kicks for playing dress up, aren’t you?” You ask him.

“Yes, I’m very much am. Now, hurry up and dress up we can’t keep them waiting.”

[Iron will’s Gym]

“Holy hell this place is huge!” Jonah said when he entered inside.

“Watch your language, boy, what did I tell you about that mouth of yours.” Applejack told her baby brother in a harsh whisper.

“Sorry, Applejack,” He told her. “But you got to admit how large this place is.” Jonah said to her.

You had to admit, you were surprised at how spacious this place is. Good air conditioning, pleasant music, tons of exercising equipment, not to mention tons of humans walking around this place with actual smiles on their faces. In all pretense and purposes, Jonah is right.

“Holy hell indeed,” You whispered to yourself.

“What did you say?” Diamond Tiara said behind you.

“Just wanted to ask why I am still carrying most of your luggage, master, we could have left it at your hotel room.” You told her while still holding two travel bags and one duffel bag hanging on your back.

“I don’t trust the owner or the cleaning attendance and I’m sure I heard them whisper something about me.” She said to you.

In truth, you did hear what they were talking about how your master is a brat with more money than brain cells. Ok, you kind of added that last part about her having too much money, but the cleaning attendees did say she is a brat.

“I’m sure they were just talking about how they are envious of how rich and happy your life is, master.” You said in an emotionless and boring tone.

“Whatever, hurry up with your work out so you I can use you to hold all of my shopping bags. Since I’m here I might as well get something at the mall.” She said while counting her bits in her designer bag from Prance that cost more than all the cloths in Mike’s luggage case. 

“Yes, my master. Speaking of work out we have no idea where to start.”

Just as you said that a huge smoke bomb ignites in front of your group, causing the ponies to gasp from surprise and for you and your human companions to still stand straight with no sign of being scared. After all, the four of you have been used to smoke bombs, so you and the other three humans just pretended to be mildly surprised before the entire group could see a huge minotaur appear when the smoke disappeared.

“ARE YOU ALL READY?” He shouted at us while flexing his overly muscular pecs and biceps. “BECAUSE, I”M GOING TO TRAIN YOUR BODIES IN TO PERFECTION THAT YOU DECERVE!” After he said that last sentence another smoke ignited behind him causing him to make a final dramatic pose.

You have no words to describe what happened. And judging by the non-caring expressions from the other humans working out, you can assume they have had this sort of thing on a daily bases.

“Oh Fluttershy, It’s nice to see you again.” The huge minotaur said in a normal voice.

“Likewise, I’m really happy for you and how you’re helping these humans, I think that’s very- eep!”

Fluttershy had almost a little heart attack when Iron will grabbed her son by the head and started to lift him off the air with one arm like he was nothing.

“Is this your human, Fluttershy?” He said while inspecting Terry’s appearance.

“Um… y-yes, he helps me with the animals and is a great house keeper and…… um, can you please put him down now?” She said while trying not to cause a small panic attack.

Putting Terry back on the floor, he was soon grabbed by his mother and the two stepped back a few steps away from Iron will.

“I see some humans already look like they have some muscle on their bones,” Iron will said when walking towards Jonah. “I’m guessing this is the work of the apple family.”

“Damn straight it is,” Applejack said with a smile on her muzzle. “We give our humans a good honest work in our orchards.”

“I see, I see and this human right here,” Iron will’s eyes soon looks to Michael and his appearance. 

“Hmm, a nice toned body this one has here.” Iron will said.

“Why thank you for noticing his appearance, I do hate having my human get too much muscle. I just can’t stand that much bulk, no offence.” Rarity told Iron will.
After looking at all three of your companions, his gaze finally set his sights on you. You made sure to puff up your chest to give you a taller look and maybe sucked in a bit of your stomach just to make sure your look a bit thinner too.

Taking a bit of a longer time examining you then the other three, you began to have doubts on what first appearance you’re giving him when he finally spoke.

“Meh.” After he said that he turned around and began to talk to the rest of the group and left you a little bit more glad that you’re going to kill him.

“As you can all see, my establishment hold over hundreds of humans that work on their physical strength and giving them an easier time to service their owners with chores be it indoors or outdoors.” He said.

“We train your humans in self-defense, so they can be an excellent when it comes to securing your home and also protecting their master.” To prove this point he pointed his giant right hand to a center ring with a goat wearing protective gloves teaching a human to jab.

“Umm, a think just a simple work out can do just fine with our human, if it’s ok with you.” Fluttershy said.

“I agree with her, I don’t want my human to leave with a black eye. I prefer to keep him in a clean and non-injured stat, thank you.” Rarity told the minotaur.

“Don’t worry, we have on the clock instructors keeping an eye on the humans to make sure they do not get harmed when getting their daily work outs.” Iron will said.

“And speaking of work outs,” Turning around to face the group again he said, “On my right side is where the humans dress rooms are and on the left is where the ponies dress room if you decide you want to participate in your humans training.”

“Actually, the girls decided that we wanted to try and check around the city for a while.  We’ll pick them up around two in the afternoon.” Twilight said.

“Of course, princess, and you don’t have to worry about your humans. I’m sure they will have a fun time staying here. “ Iron will said to her.

You and your team said your good byes to them and walked inside the male locker room. All of you decided to use the lockers at the far left corner where less prying eyes and began to put all of your belongings in your choice of locker.

After the four of you left your stuff in the locker room you, mike, terry, and Jonah were soon greeted again by Iron will.

“Hello, humans! Are you all ready to get ripped?” He asked while flexing his huge muscles over and over again. 

All four of you nodded and thus begun your first work out in a gym. After all, since you’re here you might as well try it out a little while.

[Three hours later]

“Come on, Terry, just one more pull.” Jonah encouraged Terry as he was struggling with his final pull up.

“All… most… GAAH!” After on more ounce of strength, Terry lifted his chin above the bar then danged under the pull up bar before dropping down on his feet.

“How much was that?” Terry asked Jonah through his wheezing.

“About fifteen pull ups, good job man.” Jonah said to Terry.

“Alright, my turn,” Reaching to grab the bar, Jonah started to rapidly knock out his pull ups like it was nothing.

For the past three hours all four of you began your work out regiment that was given to us by Iron will. Terry and Jonah’s exercise was to improve their upper body, even though Jonah’s upper body is already muscular enough for a seventeen year old. Terry was starting to begin to get the hang of using the dumbbells and also looked like his efforts were showing in his arms.

As for you and mike, well…

“Dodge!” Mike shouted at you before he unleashed a right hook connecting to your right side of your head.

“Ow, that hurt!” You shouted at him.

“Oh don’t be such a baby; this is just a simple sparing match.” Mike said to you.

It was iron will’s idea to make you and Jonah learn to defend ourselves, even though we already learned how, but the both of us decided to just play along and now you and mike are now in the ring wearing gloves and trying not to get hit from each other’s punches.

“Fine, now it’s my turn.” As soon as you said that to mike you put your fist in front of your face and you closed the distance between you and mike before he could put his guard up.

“Whoa,” Mike’s surprise gave you a good opportunity to land a body blow to his stomach and a jab to his chin. Stepping back, Mike lifted his gloved hands at you and spoke sternly.

“Easy, this is just a sparring match.” He warned you.

“Hey, you started this. Now dodge!” With a quick step forward, you delivered a stomach punch and another jab to his chin, causing him to lose his balance.

“Oof,” Mike was stunned for a few seconds from your two hit combo, but he soon shook it off and dodged your left hook and countered with a right cross that connected to your right temple again.

“Do not touch the face.” Mike warned me. Putting his guard up you decided to give another right cross to his head, but when Mike was ready to block it you made a faint and used your left arm to deliver a liver blow causing Mike to lose his footing again.

Mike unleashed a straight punch to your face, but you did a side step and countered with a two hit combo making Mike duck having only your fists accidentally hitting his ponytail.

"And don't you even dare try and hitting my hair again!"

You were about to finish it with an upper cut to the chin, when you felt a huge force of pain on the right side of your face. Apparently, as you were too focused on mike losing his footing gave him a chance to set a trap by letting you to hit him in order to lower your guard and giving him a good opportunity to land a solid hit on the left side of your head.

Taking a few steps back from each other, you and mike unleashed a barrage of jabs to each other, no longer caring for blocking or dodging punches. For how long you and mike slugged it out was lost to the both of you, but you were certain you were losing a lot of stamina, so you decided to dodge mike’s right jab, took three steps back and conserved all your strength in your last punch.

Seeing what you’re planning, Mike did the same thing and readied his own last attack. With some of your stamina recovered, the both of you dashed across the ring and unleashed your last punch to each other making a cross counter, but that cross counter was soon stopped when two giant hairy hands grabbed you and Mike’s gloved fist.

“That’s enough sparring for one day; I think you caused enough of a scene already.” The minotaur chuckled to the both of you. 

Letting your arms swing down to your waist, you and mike went back to each other’s corners and leaned on the rope to get a breather. Looking around the gym, you saw many eyes looking between you and mike, but as soon as they found you staring back at them they stopped staring at the both of you and went back to their own work out.

“I like both of your fighting spirit, but I think this is enough sparring for the two of you. Now, Terry, Jonah, both of you in the ring!” Iron shouted at them.

The first to arrive was Jonah wearing protective brown colored gloves and helmet and the last to enter the ring was Terry who was also wearing green boxing gloves.

“You and Mike should get out of the ring now; they will do their sparring match.” As soon as he said that you and Mike stepped out of the ring. You were about to go get some water from the locker room when Mike grabbed your shoulder.

“Hey, I’m very sorry for my fighting earlier.” Mike apologized to you

“Don’t worry Mike; I’m actually surprised at how you fight. I thought I was fighting a different person on the ring.” You told him.

“Yes, I tend to lose myself when I use my fists. I swear, if my mother saw me fighting like this she would have such a bad breakdown.” Mike told you.

“Speaking of mothers, don’t you think Fluttershy will be worried if her son will get hurt? I mean Terry is up against Jonah, so I’m sure the match will end soon.” You told Mike.

And just as you predicted, you heard the bell ring signaling the sparring to be over.

“See I told you, the winner will obviously be… what?” You were lost for words as what you saw in the boxing ring.

Lying on the mat was Terry, but Jonah while Terry is standing over him. You really couldn’t rap your head around it, Jonah, the muscle in your team, was defeated by Terry the most lightest of the four of you. 

“Alright, alright, now that’s what I want to see. Good work out there, Terry, great hustle. Alright, all four of you go get yourself some time to rest you all deserve it.” Iron will said cheerfully.

After Iron will told you that, you helped Terry get Jonah back on his feet and all four of you took you time for a break at the locker room. As all four of you were heading back to your locker you couldn’t help but ask Terry a question.

“I didn’t see you fight Jonah, but you must have some skill if you were able to take him down.” You told him.

“Oh, I’m just lucky I caught him by surprise, if he was really serious I wouldn’t have won with without a few bruises.” Terry said.

“Don’t believe him, leader,” Jonah said to you. “True, I wasn’t fighting seriously, but I still put a lot of effort when I was sparring against Terry. After all, his teacher is the most sadistic and treacherous in the assassin order.”

“Hey, she’s not like that, my teacher is a very kind and peaceful woman.” Terry said to Jonah.

“Don’t be fooled,” This time Mike entered the conversation. “My mentor told me her skills and teachings are the worst and no sane student couldn’t handle it making it impossible for her to get a student, but the only one who survived it Terry being her only pupal.” Mike explained.

“Speaking of teachers, you all never told me about your teachers. I tried to ask my teacher, but she would always brush me off whenever I ask.” You told them.

“Same thing happens to me whenever I ask my mentor.” Mike said to you.

“Mine as well, I guess all our teachers our on bad speaking terms.” Jonah told you.

“Well, when I ask her about her time being on her team she would get a nostalgic feeling, so there must be some good memories.” Terry said while removing his gloves.

After taking you break at the locker room, the four of you went bout at the gym when you all saw a huge line of humans. Curious, you talked to a human from the end of the line.

“Hey, what’s this line for?” You asked her.

“After we do our work out they call all of us for our daily supplement.” She told you.

Thanking her for the information, you and the rest of your group waited in line to see what this supplement is. As the four of you waited for the line to decrease all four of us waited behind the end of the line for about half an hour, when finally you were able to see the counter table offering the drinks.

The first to grab the drink was Terry, then Mike, after Mike was Jonah, then finally you.  Taking your drink next to the fountain near the bathroom you were about to take a swig of the elixir when Jonah grabbed your cup that was almost near your lips.

“What the hell, Jonah? I was about to drink that, you know.”

“”Don’t drink it, Terry said so.” He told you.

“How does drinking a cup of what looks like plain water would make Terry so paranoid?” You asked sarcastically.

“Because this doesn’t taste like any form of a supplement, that’s why.” Terry said to you.

“What do you mean, Terry, how can you tell something is wrong with the drink?” You asked him

“My tongue can detect distinct flavors normal humans can’t taste. And my taste buds picked up some weird chemicals in the drink.” Just as Terry was telling you what is in the drink, Jonah grabbed your cup, dumped it in the fountain sink, then replaced it with plain fountain water.

“Just drink this and they won’t notice the difference.” Jonah told you.

“We need to show them we are drinking something, our instructors our keeping their eyes on everyone.” Mike said to the group. He pointed at Iron will and his goat workers keeping a sharp eye on the other humans showing them that they are drinking their daily ‘supplement’ water.

You felt their eyes were about to land on you and your team, so all four of you downed your drinks just in time for your instructors to see your drinking your cups. With a big sigh from your refreshment to show you were done, Iron will and the other goats moved on to the rest of the humans.

“OK, we found what their serving the humans, but we don’t what causes them to go super strong and super bat shit crazy. So, our best bet is to try and again at night where there will be less eyes on us.” You told them.

“But we can’t leave here empty handed, did any of you saved some of the supplement drink?” You asked the three of them.

“Yup, I sure did.” Terry showed you a small vial with the chemical water and hidden it under his shoe.

“Good, now we just need to burn the clock and wait for our families to pick us up.”

As you were telling your team what to do next, Iron will shouted out loud to signal all of the humans that they can all go back to their perspective work outs.

“I think I was wrong, maybe we can see the effects of what this drink can do to humans.” You told them as you watched the rest of the humans start their exercises.

And you were right to assume from the start. Soon after the other humans drank their water they have greatly improved in their performance in their work outs. They added more and more weights to lift, they run longer on their treadmills with no sign being tired, and what’s even stranger is that they started to make a line to decide their turns to use the boxing ring.

“AAarg!” One of the boxers in the ring shouted and swung wildly at his opponent, but at the same time so was the other boxers making each other receive serious blows from each other with no signs of them even caring.

“What can you say about their action, Terry?” You asked him.

“I can tell that whatever is happening to them are exactly the same effects that happened to the precious humans in the report, but what I don’t understand is why we are in the line.” He said to you nervously.

“It could be our only chance and test out how strong they became by experiencing it firsthand.” You explained to Terry.

“I prefer to stay behind the side lines and watch, thank you very much.” He told you. 

“Hey, Terry, if you’re not up for it, then switch spots with me.” Jonah said behind you.

Terry was a bit hesitant about wither or not he should switch spots to him, since he badly injured him in their last sparring match, but when Terry heard the bell ring signaling for a new fighter Terry nodded his head and made Jonah be in front of him.

“OK, next match is Johnny and David.” The goat instructor said.

Stepping in the ring wearing his boxing gloves, Jonah was now face to face with his opponent David. The guy Jonah was up against already fought twice and looked badly hurt. He had a black eye, bloody nose, and a couple of bruises all over his arms, but he still looked he was able to take all the damage and then some. He looked so badly hurt you thought the referee would take him out, but instead made him fight some more.

With a quick ring of the bell the two started to trade blows with one another with jabs, heavy punches, and a few quick side steps. In just a few minutes you can see that Jonah was getting more and more injures by David’s punches, but the same could be said to David with even more welts and bruises covering his body. 

Jonah inflicted a right hook on David’s head then took a few steps back to guard. It looked like David couldn’t get any more injured the he already is you thought he was going to call it quits when all of a sudden he started to yell and punch wildly at Jonah. 

David did not look like himself anymore; instead he looked like he was possessed by some demon that’s making him fight against its will. But instead of a demon its actually the drug Terry mentioned that was in the water they all drank that’s causing David to attack Jonah uncontrollably.

“Hey, coach, ring the bell already!” You shouted at her, but it fell on deaf hears when the coach was just turning a blind eye on the two fighting humans.

Seeing as the coach was useless you shouted at Jonah to tell him what to do.

“Jonah, get out of the ring it’s too dangerous to keep fighting!” You told him. Rather listening to your order, Jonah instead lifted his left arm to defend himself and reeled his right fist like a coil.

“Jonah you’re going to get beaten senseless if don’t get out of the ring!”

“Don’t worry, Anon, Jonah is going to finish this in one punch.” Terry said to you.

“How, you were able to beat him, so how will he be able to win with one punch?” You asked him aggressively.

“True, I did beat him, but that’s because I know his weakness, if I didn’t use it to my advantage then I would have been on the boxing floor rather than Jonah.” Terry said to you while still looking at Jonah.

The more David punched Jonah, the more injured at tire Jonah became making you almost anxious to just dive in there and handle it yourself. Taking this scene anymore you were about to get in the ring when Terry and Mike grabbed both of your shoulders.

“Trust me on this one,” Mike said to you. “Anon, Jonah may not have special skills like me and Terry, but what he lacks in skills, Jonah makes up for it in sheer brute strength, just relax and enjoy the show.”

“AAAAH!” David shouted as he landed a solid hit at Jonah’s left arm causing it to no longer defend and making Jonah defenseless. Thinking that David had won he made one final attempt to give Jonah another hit to the head when his eyes was replaced of the image of a wounded Jonah to the ceiling of the gym and then to the gym floor. 

David was confused as to why, but after he was confused his eyes soon blackened making him loose consciousness before he finally figured out that it was Jonah who punched him. If the people in the gym was surprised at you and Mike’s fight then the everyone is now in complete dead silence at what happened. 

Before David could land the finishing blow Jonah’s right hand sprang into action and landed an uppercut so strong it caused David to fall out of the boxing ring and land head first on the gym’s hard wood floors.

“U-um, the winner: Jonah.” The rev said. “Anyone else wish to enter the ring?” She asked the humans inline. Not a single human said anything, they were all raving and yelling to go in the ring, but after the spectacle of what Jonah did to David made them just walk away from the ring and do their regular exercises.

Seeing there are no one else to enter the ring the instructor left leaving Jonah and the rest of us alone.

“Holy craps, Jonah, are you hurt?” You asked him. He had minor scrapes and bruises on his left arm, but other than that the rest of him seems OK.

“Yeah, yeah I’m fine. Us apples are born and made tough.” He said proudly.

“See? What did I tell you? What he lacks in skill he makes up for it in strength.” Mike told you.

“Point taken, alright, guys we now know what this place is doing to the humans, now let’s go get dressed in some regular clothes and wait for our families. After that, we’ll leave at midnight and see what’s really happening here. 

[Midnight]

“I can’t believe that we’re one assassin short of our team.” You said out loud.

“Well, it’s not your fault that we couldn’t help Jonah hide his bruises from his sisters.” Terry said to you.

After all four of us got picked up our entire group went back to the hotel to unwind and talk about our day.  They told us they had a wonderful time talking to some of their friends that was living here and one thing led to another and apparently they resolved another friendship problem. It’s amazing how even when there just visiting a friend they seem to always stumble on a friendship problem.

Either way, we all told them that the four of us just trained on only some weight lifting and some upper body exercise, which was a fat lie and the only pony who saw through that was Applejack. While everyone else was buying our lies she asked her little brother what really happened. And by asking her brother you mean she just straight up ordered him to tell her what we really did.

“Come on, Jonah, spill it.” She said to him.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, sister.” Jonah said nervously.

“You can’t hide it from your big sister, now I advise you to think what your next sentence is or you’ll have twice the chores for a whole two months.” Applejack sternly said.

Looking at Jonah’s scared face you can clearly see he was about to break under her gaze causing him to rub his bruised arm that was hidden under his long sleeve shirt. 

“What’s under your sleeve, Jonah?” She asked him.

“Um, it’s just a-“

Just has Jonah was going to make an excuse for his arm, Applejack quickly lifted his arm and pulled down his arm to see his arm covered in small cuts and bruises.

“What in tarnation? You best be doing some explaining, now.” She said more serious than ever.

So Jonah spilled the beans on how there was boxing ring and that he decided to try some sparing against another human and the end result was Jonah having an injured am in the process. Now to say she was mad was completely an understatement, so as a way to make sure he doesn’t do anything else dangerous Applejack decided to make him sleep with her in her room. You were going to step in and try to protest, but you really wanted to not get chewed out by another mare besides Diamond tiara.

So now it’s just you, Terry, and Mike on a midnight scouting mission to break inside the back of the gym. Mike was on higher ground so that he can cover us while me and Terry slowly approached the back door of the gym.

“Pick the lock, Terry, I’ll cover your back.” You told him.

“Are you sure? Because picking this lock with these tools are king of stupid.” He told you while trying to figure out how to use the lock picking tools.

“What? Your teacher was supposed to teach you how to use them. Here give them to me I’ll show you how to use it.” Terry handed you the tools and you started to pick the lock on the door.

“OK, what you need to do is use this, um, weird ball with a small metal… whatever you call in the lock and then you use this other… metal thing to get the other lock and then… nothing, nothing at all.” You told him while jiggling the still locked door.

“Fuck this,” You threw the pick locking tools on the ground in frustration. “Let’s just go find a window like normal assassins, this locking picking shit is useless.”

“Already found one.” Terry pointed at a window that’s was slightly opened next to a pile of crates stacked on top of each other. 

Using the crates as stairs the two of you made your way to the window and silently entered a large vacant room that you assume is the storage room.

“This doesn’t make sense there’s not even a single thing here that could prove Iron will’s crimes. Not to mention there seems to be not a single living soul in this place” Terry said.

“No, keep looking there has to be one thing here that could help our investigation.” You walked to the center of the room to find anything that could help when you felt a drop of water hitting the top of your head.

“What the...” Touching the drop of water that landed on your head you looked at your fingers to see not water, but fresh blood dripping down on your head. Looking above you see a huge metal storage container hanging by several heavy duty chains. 

“Anon, what are you staring at?” Terry asked you.

Pointing your finger above you Terry followed your finger to what you were pointing at and stared wide eyed at the giant crate above you.

“OK, Anon, you need to move, now.” Terry warned you.

Taking his advice to heart you tiptoed your way under the steel crate, but as soon you were just two steps away from under the massive cargo the lock picking tools you took from terry fell out of your coat pocket hitting the floor causing a very loud echo resonating in the storage room.

“Fuck. You. Lock. Picking.” You whispered harshly.

As the echo rang across the entire room the large cargo hanging in the air soon rumbled uncontrollably making the chains snap from the constant stress. Before the cargo could reach the cement floor you leaped out of the way right before the steel crate crashed upon impact.

You and Terry backed away and pointed your weapons at what’s inside the storage crate. 

“GRAAAAAH!” Out of nowhere out of the blue, a giant beast that almost resembled a human rushed out of the crate swinging his massively bulging arms around it.

“Move, move, move!” You shouted at Terry. With a quick downward swing the monster caused the floor the crack from the monstrous strength it possesses.

“What in god’s name is that?” Terry asked me.

“I think this is the final product of what Iron will was making.”

“How the hell can we stop this thing?” Terry asked you.

“The only thing we can do, Terry, we run like hell!” Making a mad dash to the window where you entered the monster grabbed a huge piece of cement from the floor and chucked it ahead of you cutting of your only exit.

“He cut off our exit now what?” He asked you.

“Now, we have no choice but fight it. Right about now, Mike has probably heard the noise in here and is trying to find a better place to fire his gun we need to buy some time until we can get our support.” Reaching behind your back you pulled out Jonah’s blunderbuss and told Terry your plan.

“You try and distract him while I try and find a good opportunity to get a single one hit kill with Jonah’s gun.”
“I’m on it.” Rushing to the monster head on Terry extended his hidden blades and did a quick swipe to its face to grab his attention and took a few steps back for the monster to retaliate.

“BRAAAAAH!” Making a wide arm swipe Terry ducked under the massive muscle and did a role under the monster’s legs and slashed both of its calf muscles making the monster to scream in frustration.

With Terry having it’s full attention you jumped on the monsters back and held on as tight as you can as the monster jumped and thrashed around to get you off.

“WOOOO! Yippee kai yay mother fucker!” You screamed for no reason. Though, your pretty sure if Jonah was in your position right now he would do the same.

“Hurry and take the shot, I don’t think I can do this for long.” Terry told you while almost getting hit by the monster’s massive hands.

Taking the blunderbuss in your right hand you shoved the muzzle of the gun to the monster’s head and was about to pull the trigger when the hulking beast was finally able to reach behind its back, grabbed you with one arm, and threw you across the room.

“Anon!” Terry shouted. He wanted to go help his injured comrade. But he was to bust not getting injured himself with the monster constantly swinging his arms to hit Terry.”

You tried your best to stay conscious, but all you could do was try and stop coughing blood. Soon, your eye lids grew too heavy to lift and you started to see nothing but darkness and then… silence.

You couldn’t hear Terry screaming your name or the monsters screeching just absolute silence and jet black darkness with only you in the center of it.

“OK, this has got to be some sick joke.” You said hysterically. “This can’t be real.”

“There! We got his signal back he’s not in her influence anymore you need to pull him off the system.” To add further insanity to your dismay you heard a female voice shouting coming out of nowhere.

“We can’t do that; if we do then we have no chance of ever sending him back.” A male voice chimed into the abyss.

“Hello? Is anyone there, God?” You asked out loud to anyone listening you.

“YES! IT IS I AND YOU HAVE BEEN A NAUGHTY BOY!” A loud voice shouted.

“Will you stop that shit and do something about this already?!” A second girl voice said.

“Ow, ow, ow OK I’ll stop, I’ll stop messing around just let go of my ear, May.” What was once a booming in command voice turned into another guy with a childish snobby whine.

“Hello! Pleas tell me this is not actually hell, cause if so, then if I make this out alive I really need to go to church with Terry on Sundays.”  You said to darkness.

For what whatever long it took the darkness to reply it all soon changed when the darkness soon became a white landscape with beams of light passing through the ground and sky.

“You’re not dead, son. You’re going home.” The voice said to you before you were engulfed in pure light.

[Real life]

“Ugh, mhmm…” For once in your life you actually wish you were dead so you won’t feel such stiffness and pain that’s coursing all over your body.

“Take it easy, Anon, you need to take it slowly.” You adjusted your eyes to focus on who’s talking to you.

“Where am I? Who are you people? Why am I in a bed? Why do I still feel like death?”

“Easy, easy you just got out of the animus and you need to rest.” Slowly your eyes could make out an image of the person talking to you. The person talking to you had long black hair, bright blue eyes, and a slender face showing the appearance of a woman staring right at you.

“Who are you?” You asked.

She gave you a crooked grin from your question, but gave you an answer to question.

“You’re at the medical wing of the building,” Hey, she at least gave you an answer. “And look, some one here that can answer the rest of your questions.” You looked at the left side of the hospital bed to see a gray haired old man with a clip boards in his hands.

“I think this is my time to leave.” The black haired girl said to you, but before she left she whispered to the old man something you couldn’t hear and then left the room.

“So, how is your day?” He asked you with a smile.

“Are you serious? I just rag dolled by some monster, almost died, and now I am here and have no idea where I am and you just ask how my day is? Its shit, my day has officially turned to shit.” You said in a dead tone.

“Well, Anon, I don’t want to make it any shittier for you, but I guess I can just do this instead.” Walking near a covered window, the old man pulled down the curtains to reveal a giant shining city with most of its buildings destroyed or abandoned followed by complete anarchy down at the streets with humans killing each other. Fire and gun shots could be hard from a far, random screaming and shouting, and explosions appearing in the skies. 

Now you need your questions answered, right now.

“Where am I?” You asked him.

His smiling face he showed before soon changed to a sour look that matches his appearance, walked next to your bed, and helped you sit up.

“This is your world, Anon, the real world.” He told you with not a single hint of lying.

“The world you were living in was just a virtual world where everyone can have a second life without the restraints of the real world,” He went on. “It was all going according the programming, but one of our AI’s that were in charge of the program went independent and severed most of the people of earth to be trapped in the virtual world.”

“Celestia,” You whispered other name without thinking.

“Yes, she was just designed to please the people to have their happy lives, but I suppose her programming did just that.” The old man told you while bringing a wheelchair for you to ride in.

“Where are we going?” You asked him.

“For lunch, I’m sure you’ve needed some actual food in your stomach.”
As he told you there was food your stomach immediately roared from hunger causing you to clutch your stomach.

“Ha, ha, ha quite alright the lunch room is just a few doors down.” Helping you push your wheelchair, the both of you strolled down the empty hallway to enter a large cafeteria with no one around.

“You must excuse the odd absence of people there doing their part in trying to keep some order in the streets.” Taking you to a table the old man walked in to the kitchen and came back with two sub sandwiches.

“What do you mean?” You asked him. The sandwich he gave you was just a simple bacon chicken sub, but with one small bite your taste buds cried with pleasure to actually taste real food making you scarf the entre thing in minutes.

“Since most of the population was trapped in the other world, most of the crime rate increased since there has been a decline of police to stop them. Not to mention a huge loss in armed forces being trapped in virtual reality making some countries to try and steal each other’s land and resources.” He gave you his sandwich and you thanked him.

“The people here try and keep some form of peace, but we are losing many lives in the process, which is why we decided to try and cut off the head of the snake that started all of this.”

“The Assassins,” You told him after finishing your food.

“Yup, the assassins were a form of a virus in a way to destroy Celestia, but she somehow became so powerful in the cyber world she was able to change the world in her own image changing the humans to ponies and other creatures  making it harder for you all the blend in to society.”

“Then to have further problems, she somehow programmed the NPCs from the assassin program to be slaves to her ponies as a way to further please her little creations.”

“What are NPCs?”

“Non-player characters, the assassin program consisted of many human AIs that resembled the real human counterparts. We thought that all was lost, until some of us decided to risk being plugged in and enter Celestia’s territory.”

“You mean, like me.”

“Yes and not only you. Mike, Jonah, terry, and other people volunteered to enter the virtual world regardless of the consequences. We knew that if you all entered she would know you were all real humans and change you into ponies, so we altered your memories to make you think you were born in that world. We even gave each of you some tragic past to make you even more determined to over throw the solar ruler and what do you know, it worked.” He smiled again before frowning.

“But that was two years ago, and you were the only person able to leave.” He told you.

“T-Two years,” You said to him with astonishment. “I’ve been in that world for my entire life, but in reality it was just two years.”

“Your quite calm after hearing all this, I’m sure if it was someone else it would cause them some heavy discomfort.”

“I’m just; I’m just slowly absorbing all of this.” You said.

“If you want, you can see the rest of your friends right now.” He got up from his seat and was about to push your wheel chair before you stopped him your hand.

“Wait, before that, can I bring a few sandwiches?” You asked him.

[Animus room]

“This is where we pulled you out of your animus after your altercation.”

Bringing couple of sandwiches with you, David (the old man), strolled you to where the rest of your team is.

“Jesus Christ.” You said in horror to what they look like. In virtual life they all looked fit, healthy, and muscular, but here they show this body frames, long growing hair, and even unhealthy pale skin.

Walking next to your team you were about to touch the machines they were using when your hand was grabbed and swatted away.

“Hey, don’t touch the animus, one wrong touch and they’ll be trapped in virtual limbo.” A young teen told you. This teen looked like he barely aged to thirteen and his shaggy hair made is harder for you to see his face, but the only thing you can remember him is that annoying voice he has.

“You’re that guy I heard when I was plugged in.” You told him.

“Yeah, and I’m also the guy that’s trying to save the rest of your friends.” After he said that he went back to Terry’s animus and tinkered with the controls.

“What do you mean, what’s going on in there?” You asked him.

Taking a sigh of frustration from your questions, he pulled out a large tablet out of his satchel, pushed a button, and shoved in your face to see what is happening.  You see Terry firing his pistols at the monster while Mike was taking shots to the leg to cripple the monster with no signs of it ever flinching, but what really caught your attention is your virtual body being motionless to what around it.

“As you can see, your body is currently ‘dead’ and the friends are also going to die if I don’t try and help them.” The teen said to you.

“”What’s your plan on helping them, Steve?” Old guy asked.

“I’m trying to transfer some data to help them stop this thing, but if I do then Celestia will take notice and the two years they spent in the animus will go to waste if they get caught.” Steve said with frustration.

“Send me in.” You said to them without thinking. “Just send me in with the data, Celestia won’t notice if I sneak back.”

For a long stretch of silence the two of them was quite, until Steve answered you.

“It’s a long shot, but I’ll see what I can do.” Steve went to action and checked your animus for your return. You couldn’t believe you were about to do this all over again, and apparently neither did the old man.

“Are you sure you’re up to this?” He told you with a straight face. “Once you get back in there you will have no second chance to get out, which means if you die again in there then we have no other option then to leave you there if it means Celestia will find out the truth.” He warned you.

After hearing what he told you, you begin to see how grave the situation is, but you still can’t let this all go down without some way of saving your friends.

“I know which is why it’s important for me to get back and help them.” You said to him with no trace of fear.

“Alright, Steve, is his animus ready?”

“Yeah, just lay him on the bed and I’ll install sequence numbers and he’ll be back in his body.” Steve said.

Placing your wheelchair next to your animus you used your arms to push you of the seat and laid down on your back on the animus. Steve attached some wires on your head and a glass window covered your head.

“As soon as I turn this on you will be back in your body with the power I added to Jonah’s blunderbuss. One shot and only one shot can take it down, so make sure you aim right.” Steve told you.

“And don’t tell your friends who they really are, if you do then you’ll destroy two years of trying to hide who they truly are and will cause Celestia to find each and every real human assassin to become ponies with no chance of ever coming back.” The old man warned you.

“Don’t worry old man, I’ll be careful.”

“My name is not ‘old man’, its Phil.” Phil told you before walking away and leaving your field of vision.

With a nod of confirmation, Steve pushed some buttons on your animus and your vision quickly saw numbers and lights coming from the small glass window making your mind feel like it was being transferred to somewhere else.

[Virtual world]

“Mike, take the legs out!” You hear Terry’s voice.

“I’m on it!” Mike said to Terry. After you heard Mike’s voice you heard a loud gunshot causing your eyes to shoot open and making your brain trace back to what happened.

You being sent back, learning the truth, and also finding a way to kill this thing once and for all. 

“Ugh, shit.” You grunted.

It felt weird for you to move you’re fake body when it was tossed to a cement wall, but you seem less in pain then you did before, possibly thanks to Steve’s help.

“Anon? Anon, you’re alive!” Terry shouted with relieve.

“Yeah, I’m alive, thank god and all that. How are thing while I was out?” You asked him.

“We tried crippling it, but it just won’t go down it can feel pain!” Terry told you.

“Also, I’m here if you wanted to ask!” Mike shouted while trying to run away from the monster.

“OK, I need you two to distract it again, when you do I’ll get back on its back and I use the blunderbuss to shoot straight towards the head.” You told them the plan.

“Roger that!” With a swift motion of speed, Terry dashed behind the monster and slashed at it’s back causing it to focus on Terry instead of Mike.

Now that Mike was free from the monster’s chase He aimed his rifle at back of the monsters kneecap and fired. The musket round completely shattered the kneecap making the monster loose its balance and fell to the ground signaling you to take to final shot.

Running the monster before it gets up you jumped on its back and made no short time to climb to its head and aim the gun to the back of its head.

“Anon, look out!” Mike shouted.

Switching your focus from behind you see the monster’s massive hands about to reach you and grab you like it did before, but they were soon stopped when two musket rounds hit both hands making you have an open window of opportunity.

“Take the shot, hurry!” Mike shouted while trying to reload his pistols.

You pulled the trigger of the gun and felt the recoil of the gun pushing back and hitting the ground. And just when you felt the floor on your back you heard the monster’s lifeless body hitting the floor and your teammate’s feet running towards you.

“Anon, are you OK?” Mike asked you.

“Yeah, I am. What about the monster?” You asked.

“Terry’s checking the body, here let me help you up.” Mike out your arm over his shoulders and helped walk to see what Terry was doing.

“Terry, is that thing finally dead?” You asked him.

“Aside from you destroying its entire head, I’m pretty sure it’s dead. I’m just taking some samples with before we go back the sun is almost rising.” Pointing his finger to a window you see that the morning was soon arriving.

“OK, we got what we came for, now we just need to go back, recover, make a new plan, and finally end this mission once and for all.” You said.

“Hopefully, Iron will won’t have anything else in store for us.” Terry replied.

“Even if he did, I’m sure we can handle it.” Mike said as reassurance.
“Your right, Mike, we will be ready for anything. Get ready, Iron, will, because you’re going down.”

“Um, speaking of Iron will and his plans, what are we going to do with this thing?” Terry asked about the limp corpse.

“Did anyone bring any alcohol and some matches?” You asked them.

“I thought you did?” Mike said to you.

“Does this mean we have to get rid of this the old fashion way?” Terry said.

“Shit, OK, pick a limb and start cutting, we need to get rid of this thing and fast.” You said to them while have way done chopping of a piece of leg. You just hope that everything in the real world is having a better time then you are.

[Real world]

“How is anon?” Phil asked Steve.

“You mean your grandson? He made in time to save his crew, but are you sure it was a wise decision to send him in without telling him the full story?” Steve asked.

“No, he already has too much to worry as it is, as the head of Abstergo it is my responsibility to handle and no one else’s.” Phil said.

“OK, so long as we can end this damn program before the real assassins arrive.” Steve said and went back to his work. “Now, I need to try and cover our tracks if Celestia somehow found out what we did. Hopefully, we don’t get to have May shouting down at both of us not doing are part of the work.”

“For all our sake, Steve, I hope so too.”  Looking back at Anon, Phil walked next to his sleeping form and spoke to his unconscious grandchild.

“Please, Anon, you have to hurry and finish your war in the cyber world, so you can help us finish our war in the real world.”
> Killer workout
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

[The next day]

"Ok," you clapped your hands together to gain the attention of your team and away from them cleaning their weapons. After the sudden revelation of who you are and what this world is made you think over a million questions on how to approach this to your team, but after knowing all that you realized what the old man told you about what would happen if you do. Instead, you decided to just drop it and go on with your current thought. "This is the night we finally kill that big, muscle headed, S.O.B and figure out what other dark secrets he's been hiding." 

Finally eliminating Iron will and taking down his so called 'gym'.

"Your right," Mike said to you. Putting down his clean sniper barrel he got from where he was sitting and walked next to you and turned to his friends to speak his piece, "I propose we should take him from afar, after the surprise from last night it is save to assume he has more surprises if we try to enter his territory." 

You could see his plan to be a decent one, an attack that is far away you can't see coming does sound appealing, but even if we take his idea and kill Iron will we still need to find more information on how he created such a monstrosity you almost died from.

"I like your idea, Mike," Terry told him. "But we also need to enter his base of operations in order to get more intel on how concocted his chemical weapon that makes humans turn into an abomination. There could even be a chance that some humans are still trapped in there and are being experimented on." He told him with worry. You gave Terry a silent nod of approval, glad that your not the only one thinking what's behind those walls of his.

"That's all fine and dandy to hear, but guys....... do ya'll mind telling me what the hell happened last night!!" J shouted at the three of you.

Oh yeah, you forgot to tell him you three battled a big muscled up berserker that nearly killed you all. Then again, you did almost die in this world and came bock to the real world to find out that none of this is real and the two princesses are actually rampant A.I's that are keeping most of the real humans trapped in this world.

You can distinctively remember that Terry and Mike helped you back to the hotel. Then, you saw Jonah with a surprised look when he saw you injured and asked what happened, but by the time Terry and Mike dropped you on your bed they too plopped on there bed and soon drifted to sleep. "Later, Jonah, need..... sleep...zzzzz." You told him before you yourself felt the clutches of sleep embrace you. 

That was last night and now its already morning and all of you are going with the girls to go do some more exploring the city, you did hear something about Mike's mom having another fashion store and is planning to see how well it's holding up. Either way you intend to infiltrate the gym when all of them are asleep. You might as well tell him before you all get breakfast upstairs with their family.

"We found out that Iron will has made a formula that makes humans enhance there physical  bodies, but also makes them extremely berserk. We nearly died from one of Iron will's monsters, well I almost died, either way we took the thing down and now we are 100% sure that whatever he's planning is bad news, which we are now planning to take him out tonight." You told him the shorter version. No need to tell the parts where you actually did die and you found out this place is actually virtual reality controlled by a rouge computer program.

Dang it, you told yourself not to think about that.

"Which leads me to my option to just kill him from afar, we have no problem of just sneaking back in." Mike explained, still sticking to his plan.

"How about this, you find a good sniper position and give us some cover fire and leave me, Terry, and Jonah to infiltrate the building. If you find iron will before us don't shoot, cause when you do you might trap us in when they go full lock down, so wait for us when we leave with Iron will's formula and then I'll give you the signal to finish him off, deal?"

He pondered your idea for a moment, your hoping he would agree, since that is your plan for tonight. You don't want to waste this morning arguing about who's plan is better, so your hoping he can agree to yours and that would be the end of that.

"I agree that does sound like a good plan, I'm sure I can spot him way before you three can, so you can go ahead and feel free to explore to your hearts content while I quickly scope out the area, don't want you three to have all the fun." Mike said to you while sweeping his hair behind his back.

You gave a sigh of relief, thanking his ego for accepting your idea. Now, with Mike taken care of you turn to Jonah and Terry who are waiting for you to tell them their roles of the plan.

"Jonah, since you haven't seen what's inside the building, you'll be behind us to cover the rear."

"Got it!" Jonah said with his axe at the ready.

"Terry, you'll take point, out of the three of you I'm sure your the most silent assassin, so if you spot an enemy before mike can take them out from afar-"

"Very unlikely." Mike stated like it was pure fact.

"I want you take the front," You ignored him and went back to talking to Terry. "Do you have anything to guy by with the samples you had from that monster?" You asked him.

"I certainly did," Terry told you. "I was able to get some blood samples from the body and what I found are some trace amounts of the formula used on the victim." Reaching in his belongings Terry pulled out a syringe with a yellow substance inside.

"I was able to produce my own formula, but it is not as strong as Iron will's, but it still shows great results if my measurements are correct." 

"So your saying it won't make us into a monster, right?" Mike asked Terry.

"In a sense, yes. it will give you a great energy boost that could keep on fighting, but it lasts for a short amount of time." Terry explained to the group.

"Then keep it as a last resort, we might not know how this will plan out, but the goal is still the same." You walked passed the three assassins and headed straight to the door.

"We kill out target, grab as much info as we can, and save as many humans that are still imprisoned."

"Of course." Mike said to you while leaning in his rifle.

"Let's finish this, right Sarah?" Terry asked his snake that emerged out of his shirt and wrapped its body around his neck.


"I'm hungry, can we eat now?" Jonah said with his hands rubbing his stomach showing his desire to eat breakfast.

You laughed at his sudden question making Mike and Terry laugh as well. it was always nice to get a laugh in or two before a mission, especially with the sudden revelation you encountered.

"Ok, guys, lets get some grub." You said with a smile on your face.

[Breakfast table]

"It's so good you guys are here, I was worried you three wouldn't be here to eat with us." Princess sparkle told the four of you when you entered the dining room.

Terry took the seat between Rainbow dash and his mother, Jonah sitting next to his sisters, and Mike sitting with Rarity and her little sister. Leaving you with your young master who's been poking her eggs with utter boredom.  

"How was your sleep, master?" You asked her.

"The bed was lumpy as hell and this food sucked." She said flatly while still poking her food.

"Well, we were glad that we are able to have our kids sit next of us, not a lot of places allow that." Fluttershy said to the group and patting Terry's back. Terry would have replied if he wasn't busy untangling his right hand with Rainbow dash and gave his mother a quick nod and started to eat his food.

"It's perfectly natural to take your time to get ready for the day, isn't that right, Michal?" Rarity told her son.

"Yes, mother" He told her.

"Now, with that out of the way, lets get on with our plan for today." With a flash of magic a scroll appeared in front of her and unrolled all the way to the floor showing a list of activities and time schedules.   

"After we're done eating I have great places to see and do. I even have different places where we can take Jonah, Terry, and Mike that they might like." She said to the group and began reading the list from top to bottom.

"How about we can go to the zoo first, I'm sure they have some new exhibits to see." You heard Fluttershy say to Twilight.

"I agree with Fluttershy, the zoo sounds lovely." Rarity agreed to her idea.

"WooOOoo! Yeah, that's sounds great, I want to see the foxes and hear them say something!!" Pinkie pie said bouncing up and down her chair.

"B-but the list and the schedule." The princess said while showing her long line of activities.

"Lighten up, Twi. Just one time drop the list and go with the flow." Rainbow dash told her while chewing a piece of pancakes in her mouth. "I'm pretty sure we won't even be able to do half of your list today with how many thing you wrote down."

"You cant go wrong with going to the zoo, I'm sure the boys will especially like it, right boys." Applejack asked all the males around the table.

"Yeah, It's even close to a comic shop I've had my eyes on." her assistant told her. "We can even check if they have any new comics!!" The dragon said ecstatically. 

"Ok, you all win. The zoo it is, we'll leave in an hour, sounds fair?" They all gave her a nod and started to finish their breakfast. after we were all finished you went back to your base of operations and started your own check up on your weapons. You saw Terry, Mike, and Jonah spending their time with their family, but you would rather have alone time by yourself, there is no way you want to spend time with Diamond, especially if it might cause you to carry any of her shopping bags. As you took apart your hidden blades you wonder hoe the rest of your group is spending their time.

[Rainbow dash's room]

After everyone finished their meals Rainbow dash asked Terry if she can help her sort some clothes she got from rarity, but when Terry followed her back Rainbow dash quickly closed the door and turned around to face her boyfriend before she felt a pair of soft lips connect to her own, causing her to immediately start pushing her tongue in his mouth making it turn into a competition of who will win.

Knowing hoe competitive she is Terry allowed her to do most of the work before me was knocked over on top of her bed. Rainbow dash took this opportunity to grab both of his arms and put her legs on both sides of his legs making it impossible to move.

"Got you," She said though bated breaths. "Now, what else do you think I should do?" She asked him then gave him light pecks to his cheek and trailing it down to his neck.

"Whatever you want from me." Terry answered with barely any control over his voice when she started to nibble on his ear.

"Oh Celestia, how I missed doing this, Terry." She said while ribbing her lower have on to Terry's closed legs. "I miss doing this to you, with you, and above all else," Rainbow dash stopped her barrage of kissing (which to the dismay of Terry) and grabbed his chin connecting her mouth to his. It wasn't brief and lustful kiss like she did a few seconds ago, this kiss lasted a good two minutes before they both separated leaving a thick trail of spit between them.  "I just miss you so damn much It hurts." she said with more gruffness in her voice and a more tightening grip on his arms.

"I miss doing this to you too," Terry said to his girlfriend with a little more tenderness. "Your so close to me, but at the same time far away when we are with my mother and her friends." He told her with his eyes showing how much he wanted this moment to last.

Just when Rainbow dash was about to assault him with her mouth Terry's honed senses instinctively kicked in, causing him to reverse the hold Rainbow dash had on him making her laying flat on the bed and Terry now in control.

"T-terry?" Rainbow dash stuttered with surprise on how quickly her boyfriend took control. 

"My mother," He said in a panic. "She's coming up stairs!"

"What!? How can you tell?" Pushing Terry away, Rainbow dash started to un load her drawers full of cloths and started to sort them to make it look like Tarry and her actually did something.

"I can tell it's my mom since over the years of her constantly being overprotective and barging in my room every time that I can tell when my mom needs to know if I'm alright." Terry said to his girlfriend with a serious face, but what Terry did not know was the face of pure pity Rainbow dash was giving for him behind his back.

I don't know if Fluttershy is a good mother, or just plain annoying when is comes to you, Terry. She said in her head.

"Quick, pick up some cloths, you need to look like your helping me!"

"A-any thing?" Terry's face began to stutter.

"Hurry, I think I'm finally hearing her voice in the hall way." Out of options, Rainbow dash threw what ever piece of clothing was near her, threw it at him, and started folding her clothes when the door knob finally opened with a bright yellow pegasus entering the room.

"Terry, I almost forgot that I got you a- huh?" In an instant Terry's mother went silent and her eyes soon became vacant when she saw what her son was holding in his hands. Rainbow dash lifted her head up to see what Terry was holding and immediately started to sweat bullets. Because in front of Fluttershy was her son holding Rainbow dash's special black frilled underwear she was going to wear when Terry and her could have had time alone when they go back to Ponyville.

"Rainbow dash," The air became suddenly cold, causing her and Terry to shiver slightly. "What are you making my son do here?" Her empty eyes were practically drowning Rainbow full of fear when Terry's mom slowly walk towards her.

"I- I was just..." She really could not just say she just gave it to him by accident, but she could not lie to her best friend either, she needs a way to escape this and fast, but how?!

"She didn't do, I did!" Within a split second, Fluttershy's empty gaze soon vanished and replaced with a confused stare that was being aimed at her son. "I wasn't paying attention to what I was grabbing and before I could let go you suddenly open the door, I swear that's what happened. Please don't be mad at me, mom." Terry said with a single tear in his eye. Terry did tell her once that he used that move to convince his mother, but this is the first time she actually saw it, she just hoped it worked. 

"Of course I'm not mad at you, sweetie!"  Fluttershy immediately cried her eyes out, scooped her son up, and gave him a big hug and soon peppered his cheeks with kisses like there were bruises on his face and she was making them all go away.

Holy crap it actually worked!

"Don't worry, Terry, I'm not mad at you or Rainbow. Just make sure to watch where you grab things, you have no idea where those were, or if you might catch something from it."

Rainbow dash was both thankful for Terry's help and at the same time offended by Fluttershy's accusation that she was dirty between her legs. 

"Well, I just wanted to check on the both of you, and I was also wondering when you both will be done. The rest of us decided to check the museum of art while we are here." Fluttershy told them.

Rainbow dash hates museums, especially art, it's always full of stuck up ponies wearing fru-fru clothes, and looking at pictures that looks like a ten years made but was said to be made by some famous artist.

"I would love to go, mom." Terry said to her with excitement.

But she would make an exception, s=if her boyfriend is there, then she would obviously tag along.

"Wonderful! I'll see you both down stairs." Fluttershy then gave her son a peck on the chick and left Rainbow dash's room, leaving Terry and Rainbow a sigh of relaxation of almost getting caught.

"Thanks for the help, Terry." She told him.

"No problem, just glad that mother will believe anything that I say when ever I turn on the water works." Terry said with a red tinge growing all over his face from the embarrassing face he had to make in front of his girlfriend.

"To be honest, I thought that face you had was cute." She told him.

"C-cute, you think that I'm c-cute!" His blush intensified and covered his face with on of Rainbow dash's clothing, but when he lifted his face, Terry squealed when he noticed that he smothered his face in another of the cyan pony's silk laced underwear. 

"Heh, I also like how easily flustered you can get too."

"Hey," Terry pouted at her with blushing cheeks before deflating them and got off of her bed. " Well, I wish we can have more alone time, but I need to get ready, I'll see you later, Rainbow." Stepping over the scattered pieces of clothing, terry was now in front of Rainbow dash, leaned down, and gave her a kiss good bye and left.

Walking back down stairs, Terry saw the rest of his humans in a circle talking amongst them selves. The one who noticed him first was Jonah, to get the rest of the attention, Jonah told them that Terry arrived making the circle have more room for him to join the conversation.

"Hello, gentleman, what did I miss?" He asked them.

"Just the plan," Mike said nonchalantly. "we plan to move out when the girls are all asleep."

"I'm sure it will be easy to sneak out, since we don't sleep on the same floor as them." Jonah explained.  

"We all took care of our stuff, so now it's time to get yours ready for tonight." Anon said to Terry.

"Right, I'll go get the rest of my gear prepped and ready, did any of you heard about what the girls wanted to do today?"

"Yeah, my sis told us we're going to some big, boring museum full of weird pictures." Jonah said.

"You mean beautiful, exquisite, and very expensive pieces of art." Mike explained to Jonah. 

"Either way, after that's done, we'll take this night to finally finish the mission?" Terry asked half way through the door, turning his head to look at them for a answer.

"Yup," You told him. "Just get your stuff ready and be prepared for he worst."

"On it, I'll be ready to go in under thirty minutes." Terry  left the three alone to get started while you, Mike, and Jonah started talking again.

"So, I'm guessing we should expect the worst to come if things get out of hand?" Jonah asked you.

"Its always best to think of what's the worst to come," Like a muscle headed monster killing you, or knowing this world is a fake and your trapped in side a world controlled by crazy computer program. "we should all be prepared if some unknown element catches us off guard." You explained to him. 

"With all talking aside we should all remember that this is also a vacation trip, so lets enjoy some time with our families." Mike said.

You almost forget about that part, since your master did make you go with her daughter, it was still a nice thing for him to do, especially with how he agreed to let your team come along with their families.

"Yeah, your right, Mike." You agreed to his statement. "For now, the mission won't start till everyone is asleep, so lets enjoy today to its fullest." After all, you sure today won't turn so stupid super fast, right?

[later]

It went stupid, so freaking fast!

To start it off, we were all good to go to the art museum, but the security guards told us no humans allowed. After what seems to be hours of constant shouting of shouting from Rarity and Applejack yelling at them about family we all decided to go to the zoo hoping we can still have a good time. Well, it was fun for a an hour or so with everyone splitting up in small groups looking around and seeing all sorts of animals of many shapes and sizes. Terry was with Fluttershy, Scootaloo, and even Rainbow dash (oddly enough she seemed insistent to tag along with them even though they were going to petting zoo first), Jonah was with his two older sisters and was going to the watch the elephants, Mike was with his mom and her little sister Sweetie belle to watch the penguins, leaving the princess and her assistant Spike to be together with you and your master.

The princess was ever to diligent to give a good detailed event on when and where we should start, Spike her assistant just complained, your master just looked like she wanted to be anywhere buy here and also far away from you (go figure) but still did the whole kiss ass act when ever the princess talked, and you just simply just rolled with all of what's happening since you just wanted to enjoy today. 

Well, you did get to see the giraffes, lions, and even get to see some seals (You even laughed when one of the seals dived back in the water and splashed all over your master making you try to stifle your laughter, you may get punished later but in all honesty is worth it.)

You soon started to hear some shouting and soon found a group starting to form around two mares yelling and screaming at one another. Princess Twilight decided to intervene in the fray making the forming group to disperse making you see Rainbow dash and a gray earth pony wearing what appears to be a black suit yelling at each other. The princess quickly separated the two and decided to cause any less trouble and decided to take all of us away from the zoo.

Turns out Rainbow dash was yelling at that gray earth pony because she knocked Terry to the ground and did not apologize. This caused her to loose control and started to give that mare a piece of her mind. The conversation soon turned to a full blown shouting contest and caused a large scene that attracted a large portion of the ponies at the zoo. Well, after a few arguments within the group and a couple of some friendship filled words and group hugs (minus you and your master) we all decided to get back to the hotel and partying the day away leaving all the ponies tired from all the games and dancing. With a tired "Goodnight" from all the ponies entering their perspective rooms You and your squad had a good hour and a half power nap and geared up for our mission.

"I can't believe Rainbow dash would try to pick a fight in the middle of the day." Jonah said while double checking his blunderbuss.

So far, we were just on top of a two story clothing store across the street of Iron will's gym. Mike was laying on his stomach and using the roof's ledge as a stand for his rifle to spot any enemy around the area while the rest of us made sure to check if we have all the tools we need to infiltrate the building.

"I think she had all right to do so, that mare was a rude pony if she did not even apologize to you for knocking you down to the dirt. I mean, do you know how many hooves and other things had been on the ground!" Mike said to Terry while at the same time checking his scope for any enemies.

"Its not her fault, she was just trying to find someone, but Rainbow dash just wanted her to apologize to me." Terry said. Even though he loves his girlfriend very mush Rainbow does have a mean streak when it comes to anger management. 

"Lets drop the subject and get on with the problem at hand." You told all of them.

"While its a good point to try and sneak in the back, I'm sure iron will knows who killed his recent dead pet and decided to put more bulk in his defenses, including the rear." You told them. You heard a few snickers from behind your back, but when your turned to see the other three assassins they were all acting normal.

"So, anyway, Mike stays here and Mike and Terry take the right side of the gym, while I take the left."

"Don't you think it's dangerous to go by yourself?" Terry asked you with a bit of worry.

"Don't worry about me, I work better when it comes to stealth." You said to him.

"Well, what are we waiting for, lets get this over with." Jonah said with his axe in his hands from the anticipation.

"Quite so." Going back to looking through his scope, Mike started his part of the mission as support to the group.

"God be with us." Terry mumbled before forming a cross shape on himself and then to his teammates.

"Ok guys, its time we finally take this mad cow down." You said to all of them then quickly descended off the building to begin your plan.

[left side of the gym]

"Ggrggl" The guard tried to speak to alert the other guards, but the hold you had around his neck was to strong to break causing him to only make garbled noises while he slowly losses consciousness.

"Shhhh, just go to sleep." You told him while dragging his body under a flight of stairs.

"Mmmh? Hey, Brick, you down there?" You heard a mares voice and hooves steps getting closer.

"Fuck." You mumbled. The stallion known as 'Brick' was already asleep and the mare was slowly coming closer, you guess its time to pull a trick and fast!

"Brick, what the hell are you doing? Get back to work and stop slouching." After the mare looked to see her partner kneeling down behind a couch as what she assumes was tying his shoes she went back upstairs  to get back to her security check up.

"Glad that's over with." Getting back up from the floor you dragged the body inside a broom closet and got back to infiltrating. You knew you had no time to use his clothing, so instead you just positioned him kneeling and  you just hid behind to couch while you just moved his arms and head to show that he was still conscious.

So far, you already cleared most of the rooms on the first floor and spotted Mike and Jonah a few times before they decided to move upstairs. Your sure that they can handle the rest of the goons, but it isn't to bad to double check if they forgot a guard or two, it's always some guard with dumb luck that was left behind that usually alerts the rest of their friends. 

After a quick run down in each room you decided to move upstairs before you stopped on the first step. It could be you, but your paranoia keeps telling you that this mission is going south real fast and you have no idea how.

You soon snapped out of your thought and heard several tapping noises coming down the stairs making you hide behind near by corner. You peaked around to see who it is to find that a pony wearing a stark white lab coat holding a briefcase barely holding a large sum of papers sticking out in each corner. Just as the pony reached the first floor and towards the main exit you used your leg and tripped the pony falling face first with the briefcase wide open with all the papers flying every where.

"No, no, no, my research!" The pony said while trying to collect all of the paper into a pile.

"I think you have more pressing matters to do right now besides stacking papers." You yanked the pony away from the papers and slammed the scientist to the wall, upon closer inspection this pony is a unicorn mare in her late twenties wearing thick rimmed glasses and a panicked looked with good reason since you are holing a wrist blade to her throat.

"O-oh no, another one." She panicked even more and tried to struggle, but with more force in your blade to her throat she stopped her struggling.

Another one? Great, so Jonah and Terry did not see this mare slip past them and she almost escaped.

"Who are you?" You asked her.

"I'm Moon dancer, I studied most of my life to be a d-d-do-"

"Dork? did you say dork?" You asked her, you really couldn't understand her since she is trembling so much.

"I'm not a Dor-mph!" You cover her mouth to stop her voice from getting to louder.

"Ok, ok, your not a dork." 

"I'm a doctor- a scientist to be more precise, I got hired for my research." 

"Research, what research?" You asked her with more interest.

"Please, I'll tell you everything, just don't hurt me." She begged you.

You let her go to catch her breath, but you still kept a pistol drawn and her pointed at her in case she tries to do something funny.

"I just wanted my studies to be noticed around the world," She said to you but you feel like she's saying that to her to make her feel better of what she did. "My studies got noticed right away from the Princesses and gave me a promotion and a steady income of my research."

"Get to the point, Dork." You told her while shoving the muzzle of the pistol in her mane. You wanted to say 'Doc' or her name, but dork was just the slip of the word. 

"Iron will saw more to my studies and decided to use it for his own use instead of for the good of Canterlot and his country." 

"Get to the point, Dork." Fuck, you tried to say her name but you just said dork again.

"I just made a formula that can make humans a bit more stronger so they get better at labor work, but he decided to make it more volatile and making them savage and more angry."

"How many, how many humans are in this gym?" You asked her.

"None, we are on lock down and since the police are becoming more secure we can't risk getting humans." She explained.

"Then why is there so many guards if no humans are here?"

"Because they aren't protecting the humans, its the drugs that are important." Dor- Moon dancer said.

You stayed silent for a moment, not sure to believe her or not so instead you made her face the wall and tie her arms with her lab coat.

"What are you doing? I told you everything so let me go." She sobbed.

"Shut up, I still don't believe you. Even though Iron will is doing most of the crimes you are just as responsible for creating this damn drug." You told her.

"It's not my fault, I just wanted to be noticed for my genius and research." Moon dancer started to cry uncontrollably making you use the butt of your gun to knock her out.

"Go to sleep dork, just go to sleep." You finally stopped caring about her name and just say it with what comes natural.

You lifted her arm and dropped her onto a couch in the lobby and went upstairs to see what the others were doing.

Reaching the second set of stairs you spot Terry and Jonah About to breach a large double doors with the plaque on top of it saying 'Iron will'. You pronounced your presence with a c cough making the two turn around to see you staring at them with your arms crossed in front of you.  

"Hey, your just in time we cleared the room and the only thing left is to handle." Jonah told you while getting his axe ready to break the door open.

"What about the mare?" You asked.

"Mare? what mare?" Terry asked you.

"Apparently she slipped past you guys and almost got away." After you told them their eyes immediately shot up by surprise after hearing that.

"Crap, does this mean you'll tell our teacher about this?" terry asked.

"No, I won't." But she did tell me that there are no humans in this building and that they are protecting drugs that turn humans savage."

"I think I found it in a empty laboratory a few doors down the hallway." Terry said.

"Then that means this is where its made and distributed." Jonah replied.

"You found the source and I found the creator, she's down stairs taking a nap."

"Then its just three against one, we can take him. Ready?" He asked you and Terry.

Taking out a pistol and a sword you gave him a nod of approval for him to break the door down.

"Three, two......ONE!" With a quick downward strike from his axe Jonah shattered the hinges of the door and kicked it down to the ground. You and Terry dashed inside and pointed our guns at our target. The minotaur was just benching pressing and not even stopping to look at who barged in his room.

"Iron will, you know why we are here." You said to him.

"Just a few more reps and I'll be done." He told you without stopping.

To make your point across you fired a single shot near his cloven feet making him stop lifting the large dumbbell.

"I think you already had enough." You told him with your tone turning slightly darker.

With out warning, Iron will toss the large dumbbell causing the floor the shatter from its shear weight and got up from his bench to look at the three hooded intruders.

"Just three? I expected more from your order." He said while admiring and flexing his large biceps.

"The order sent only three because they know we are more then enough to handle you." Terry told him.

"And don't try and bribe us, it won't work." Jonah told him.  

"Dumbass, I don't intend to." Iron will said while still flexing his muscles in front of a mirror that was across from him.

Getting annoyed by his antics you fired a second round to the mirror making him stop flexing and turned to face the three of you again.  

"I don't intend to die, but I sure do intend to make the three of you just a bunch of blood smears on my floor." Reaching under the bench Iron will pulled out a large syringe with a large labeled with the word 'Steroids' on it. Warning signs began to flare in your hand causing you to fire a shot to Iron wills 's left leg making him kneel from the pain.

Seeing that your fired first, Terry fired two shot that hit the minotaur's chest making him scream in pain but was still not enough to bring him down.

"To late, weaklings." Iron plunged the large needle straight to his heart causing his whole body to be paralyzed from the clear liquid injecting straight in to his heart and in to his bloodstream. His already muscular body soon grew twice it's size and his fur soon fall off of him leaving a large furless minotaur with veins showing all around his body. The only normal looking feature left of him was his head that was still its same size but was sticking out of his overly muscular body. The three of you just stared at abstract horror at how horrifying he looked but at the same time disturbed by his ever growing laugh from his transformation.

"Alright..... weaklings...." His language sounded slow and imbalanced in tone but the murderous intent was practically dripping from each word caused you three to get into a defensive stance as he grabbed his heavy dumb bell with just his right hand and pointed his large weapon to you and your team.

"It's time.... to get.... your exercise." 

As he began to swing his weapon to get some momentum you could only say onw word that could describe what you are seeing.

"Gross....just gross." Ok, maybe you said more then one..... gross.

"RAAAHH!" He swung his massive weapon that was aiming towards your head, but you avoided the attack and ordered Terry and Jonah to spread out so none of you could be an easy target.

"SHIT! This dude is seriously bulked up! Woah!" Jonah ducked under to dodge Iron will's massive arm and used his axe to deliver a upper cut slash that gave a wide cut on the side of the muscled minotaur. He hoped that this would cause him to scream in pain, but instead Iron used his now wounded arm and grabbed Jonah's arm and flung him in the air and crashed into Terry.

"Man, this dude got a serious throwing arm." Jonah groaned while rubbing his back in pain.

"Must be those steroids he took." Terry said getting back on his feet.

"Less talking! More helping me!" You screamed as you ducked and weaved at each swing from iron will's heavy weapon.

"You... aren't... leaving... alive" Iron grunted with each swing.

"Shit! Just freaking die already." You swung your sword rapidly every time you see an opening, but he just seems to shrug it of with ease and only making him angrier and angrier!  

Dammit! You need to find some way to kill this guy! Unless.... that's it! You look around his large office and saw several windows each a good vantage point for Mike to had in sniper support.

"Terry! Jonah! The windows! try and give Mike a signal to move his position to give us a hand.

"On it!" Jonah started to switch his axe with his gun and started to shoot a near by window causing a large noise that should cause some disturbance to get Mike to move his position to get a better view on what's happening.

"I'll cover you!" Terry pulled out two pistols and fired two shots to the monster's back causing his attention to be focused on Terry and away from you.

"I'll... kill... you!" He screamed at Terry. Iron will charged at him hoping to use his mass to crush Terry, but Terry jumped in the air and put both his hands on Iron will's massive shoulders and flipped out of danger and causing the massive minotaur to crash into the wall causing an even bigger opening for Mike to get a better shot.  

"Will this be a better opening?" Terry asked you.

"Um, yeah, actually that works perfectly." You grinned.

You just thought that this plan was going perfectly, but suddenly Iron will made a intense scream causing the trio to look at what Iron will was flinging his dumbbell wildly before tossing it away and charging to his desk instead towards any of us. But why would he go to his desk... oh shit!

"Someone stop this motherfucker! He's going for more steroids!" You upholstered your second pistol and fired at his right calf hoping to stop him, but he just shrugged it off and started to flip his desk over to half all of the contents spilled all over to show a few more syringes.

"Need... more." Grabbing all the needles Iron will raised it in the air and was about to inject all of it into him when you heard a loud rifle shot in the air and then a second later heard Iron will scream in pain.

"Look!" Terry pointed at the gaping hole Iron made to show Mike reloading his rifle on top of a room across from the gym.

"I got you covered!" Mike shouted before aiming his rifle at Iron will and fired another shot that hit his right thigh and causing him to kneel from the pain.

"Now, while he's down!" You and Terry started to unload as many bullets as you can on the minotaur while Jonah took the direct approach and started hacking away at any vulnerable spot with his axe. Iron will tried to move but with Mike's sniper support it made Iron will stay in place and getting more damage from all of us.

What was a constant barrage of bullets and slashes for about a few minutes Iron will finally gave a blood curdling scream, grabbed his desk and threw the entire desk.

"Woah!" Jonah jumped out of the in time to not eat solid wood and gave himself a few feet away from Iron will for safety.

"AAAAAH!" It was not so great for Mike when the desk hit where Mike was stationed at making our sniper support gone until Mike can get a better position. 

"Mike! Mike are you ok?" Terry screamed.

"I'm ok," Mike said and waved his hands to show he is still alive. "I'll find a better spot I'm a sitting duck if I'm exposed through this hole."

"Please hurry." Terry told him while trying not to die from flying items that was being tossed at us from the angry minotaur.

"Die... die... just die!!! Iron will just kept throwing random objects and swing his fists when ever he gets close to any of us.

"How the hell can we kill this dude!?" Jonah screamed while trying to dodge flying wall debris and lifting equipment.

"Just keep hitting him! He has to die somehow!" And you should be right too! With so many bullets and blades we inflicted on him he has to have a limit!

Iron will looked like a half a corpse with so many bullet holes and loose flesh hanging off him HE HAS DO GO DOWN!

All of his attention is directed at Terry. With each swipe from his massive arms Terry delivers a deep cut with his hidden blade, but when Terry found an opening he stabbed his blade into Iron will's stomach and tried to pull away when Iron will grabbed Terry with both his hands and lifted him into the air.

"Terry!" You and Jonah screamed. 

"I... will... break... you!"

"AAH! Don't hit me!" Terry looked away from Iron will's bloodied face when his snake emerged out of his coat, wrapped her body around Iron will's face and started to bite him repeatedly! His grip loosened making Terry escape from his grasp unharmed while Iron will tried to get the snake off of his face but couldn't since his muscles were in the way.

"Get... off! Iron will struggled.

"Cerah!" He shouted her name. After Terry said her name she uncoiled herself and quickly slithered her way back to Terry's right pants leg.

"Good work, Terry! I can't believe you brought her." Jonah Said.

"Yeah, I never leave without her." Terry said before Cerah emerged out of his shirt and stuck out her forked tongue out in the air.

"How many times did she bite him?" You asked Terry while looking at Iron will start convulsing out of control.

"What's happening to him?" You asked him.

"Must be something to do with the drugs he taken, I think the poison has made it even more dangerous." Terry explained.

"GRAAAAH!!" Iron will started to swing more wildly and even more started to scream more and more.

"Stop... moving!" Now Iron will started to form around the mouth and began to move more sluggishly and then started to fall flat on his face.

"He's down! Curb stop the big shit!" You shouted.

Jonah took that literally and decided to get a running start towards the fallen minotaur, jumped in the air and when Iron will was about to lift his head Jonah's boot connected on the top of his head and stomped it down back to the floor.

After Jonah, Terry also started to stab Iron will's back with his wrist blades with the added help of Cerah starting to bite him again.

You thought with so many stabs, bullets, and snake bites you thought iron will could already be dead and the three of us was just beating on a dead body, you were surprised to see Iron will move from the brutal beat down, causing all of us to back away from him and his sudden burst of rage.

"I'm... not... dead... yet!" With his burst of energy he used whatever speed he has left and grabbed one of us that was still too close for his reach.

"GOT... YOU!"

"AWW CRAP!!" Bullshit spoiler.... it's you!

"You got this motherfucker!!" You pointed your pistol right to his face, but as when you soon pulled the trigger you just heard the hammer click with no bullet shooting through the barrel.

"It just had to be the last bullet!" You said your final say.

"I'm going to rip your head and shit in your throat!!!" He roared.

"You spoke a full sentence, I'm proud of you." You grunted.

Cocking his opposite arm back to punch you to death you seen a glint outside of one of the shattered windows caused by Jonah making you try to break free of his grip.

"Wait, wait, wait!" You tried to speak to him mid fist that was just about to hit your face before he stopped and stared at you to say your piece.

"Um... something, something... aw fuck it! Just shoot, Mike!" You gave up on trying to say some cool one liner and pointed your phantom blade at his face, fired, and the blade imbedded itself into his right eye making him release his grip and dropping you on the floor.

Outside of the gym, Mike aimed his rifle on top of a donut joe's roof, aimed his sights, at his target, and fired. The bullet hit the base of the spine of Iron will causing the roided monster lose his lower motor skills and making Iron will fall down for good.

"Did that do it, is it over?" Terry asked you.

"I'm about to find out." You slowly walked around Iron will's body and could see he tried to stand up but kept falling back down over and over again. It's almost a pity... almost.

"Terry, give me your gun."

He did what you asked and gave you his pistol. You pointed the gun at the minotaur's head and you saw him finally stopped trying to stand up and moved his head to look at the gun being pointed at him and you who was holding it.

"Can you look at yourself right now? Can you feel how the humans felt when you injected this poison into their veins and turned into monsters like you are now?" You kept asking him questions, but he just remained silent. Your anger kept rising and rising and you just wanted to yell out in frustration, but what stopped you was the vacant look in his eyes and you can see no form of consciousness. Iron will died minutes ago, probably from the snake venom and the loss of blood. What's in front of you now is just the his body reacting to the pain and the drug still in his body.

"Hey, are you go-" Jonah couldn't finish his sentence when you fired your gun and the body stopped moving and ending this fight.

"We weren't fighting him," You tossed the gun back to Terry and walked away from the body. "The drug was the one that kept getting back up, he died from all the wounds we inflicted on him, but the drug was the real monster."

You let that insight settle on there minds to see the gravity of this drug and the situation of the matter.

"Oh shit, that blows my mind." Jonah said making the stilled silence non-existent.

"So, the body is going to be a hard thing to cover up, and the guards, the collateral damage of the building, also the buildings around this building..." Terry trailed on about the aftermath of this problem.

"Meh, its not our tax bits at work." You said nonchalantly.

"It does, since our parent's bits who pay the taxes." Terry told you.

"Details, details we'll get to that bridge when we get there." You told him before you stopped moving and turned around to see the giant body on the floor.

"Speaking of body... did anyone bring something to burn this thing?" You asked any of them.

"Umm..." Terry scratched the back of his head and turned away to not look at you.

"Uhhh.." Jonah just straight up not looked at you and stared outside to not answer.

You pinch the bridge of your nose and decided to let the authorities handle it, after the assassination of the head chief of police your sure Double already have some pony take control, so your sure she can help cover this up.

"Ok, wrap it up guys, we came, we saw, and we conquered. By now there should be ponies getting curious about the noises, so we should leave." You turned around to walk out of the ruined office before you stopped and turned around to look at both of them again.

"We also have a sleeping pony down stairs. Any of you got any ideas on how to handle that?" You asked them.

"We can ask the changelings if they can hold her until we can get the order to take her in for information." Terry suggested.

"Good enough, but who is going to carry her." Your gaze slowly looked at Jonah who was doing arm curls with Iron will's equipment before he stopped and looked at you and Terry who were staring at him and dropped what he was holding and straightened himself up. "What?" He asked both of you.

"Jonah, congratulation you are carrying the sleeping mare." You told him before walking back out the door before you heard him say "Crap." and decided to find the science lab. After a couple of turns and opening doors you spotted the lab that was full of scattered documents, spilled test tubes, and some small containers, probably due to the mare who tried to cut her losses with the dead Templar.

"Terry, get a box of these things and destroy this room," You looked back to see Terry getting started to destroy the room before you stopped him. "On second thought, use some of these lab equipment to set a fire, make it look like an accident."

"Got it." Terry walked past you and started to spill some flammable chemicals around the room and its walls before turning on a hotplate and grabbed a small case holding the steroids.

"We should go." He said quickly before you heard the fire instantly ignited and started to grow more and more before it started to spread to the next room.

Hopefully this fire can get big enough to destroy most of the evidence you made, but right now its more important for you leave before you get caught in the fire. You quickly caught up with Terry and Jonah that was carrying Moondancer over his shoulder on the 1st floor and heard a massive explosion up stairs.

"We need to go now, out the front door." You ordered them. The three of you (plus one) made it outside and found mike just across the street hidden in the alleyway.

"Glad your all ok, but who is that pony over your shoulder, Jonah?" Mike asked him.

"She is the source of this problem and our answers to what other Templars are doing." You told him.

"Well, we better ask her later, because I saw some guards already getting close to the here and its almost sunrise, we better hurry." When Mike said that more ponies were on there way here you all made sure to get back to the hotel before morning with the added guest still unconscious. You not sure you can hide her until you can get changelings arrive to get her, but you can worry about that when you cross that bridge.

After all, with what you came across today, you need a good rest. You just hope the hard part is already over with.
> Fasion police
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"Welcome back you two, how was your trip?" Mr. Rich asked with a welcoming smile and his arms stretched wide as a sign for a incoming hug.

You were only halfway inside with all Diamond's luggage strapped around your arms while the heavier bags were sitting outside waiting for him comeback and take them to Diamond's room. It would be not so bad if she did not live upstairs, but you just took all the trouble in stride and your master a hell before you were pushed aside by your young brat of a master.

"I'm home daddy!" Diamond shouted in joy while she gave her dad a hug. The stallion lifted her up and began to spin with her in his arms, both laughed and you could not help put a smile at the scene in front of you. That moment was soon shattered when Mr. Rich put her daughter down and her happy face soon turned to a fierce sneer when she saw you standing in place.

"Well, hurry up! you still have my the rest of my bags outside, so pick up the pace." To add insult she snapped her fingers at you then walked upstairs to her room leaving you and her dad alone.

"It seems my Diamond is still the same filly even after the trip you two had." He shook his head and gave you a tire smile.

"Can't expect her to change in just a few days, sir." You both made a tired sigh at what you meant and chuckled in understanding since both of you know what you go through with her. 

"I'm just glad that you are doing well after what happened." Your master gave you a look of concern for your well being but you just patted his shoulder as a sign that you are doing just fine.

You should expect he should be worried about what happened a few days ago. After you were able to get back to base after the assassination of your target you and the rest of your team took a long nice nap that soon came to an abrupt end when Applejack barged in and woke up her brother to head upstairs. After she took her brother from the room Rarity came next telling her son to wake up from his beauty sleep and immediately dragged him in is tired stupor out the door as his hair flung wildly around while running behind his mother already out of the door the final pony was of course Fluttershy with a frantic face came zooming in and standing next to her son still trying to wipe the sleep off his eyes when she lifted her son on his feet, immediately took his arm and pulled him along side her to main room leaving you alone, half asleep, wondering what just happened.

You know that Diamond won't walk through the door to get you out of your room so you left you bed and walked to see what the fuss was about. Looking around the main room you see your team, their family, and at the center of the group was the princess of friendship reading the newspaper out loud for all to hear.

"At 5:00AM, one of the local workers found Iron Will (the minotaur in charge of the gym,) was found dead in his office. The officers soon covered the gym for anything that could leave any trace to who did the crime." Closing the newspaper the princess of friendship looked at her friends to see their expressions morph from concern to down right shocked. "Whatever happens, I'm sure the police will find out what happen." She tried to reassure her friends to not be afraid but you can still see that their fear is still evident on their faces.

You even see Terry's mom holding his hand a lot tighter as a way for her to know her son is right next to him. As a matter a fact you also see Applejack and Rarity becoming more and more protective of their family. It's only natural to be afraid of what might happen to family, your sure their thoughts are about making sure their family are safe. But your also sure that they want to believe her words that the people behind the crime will be found and face justice for what they done.

Fat chance that will happen, since the officer in chief is a changeling undercover and is now pulling the strings inside the police force, so any evidence that could be found will soon be lost and the crime of what happened last night will be buried and forgotten within time.

Its always nice when the law is on your side for once. Your also impressed with how fast the papers published this breaking news so fast, but you can just chalk that up by magic or this world spawning new things in break neck speed. 

The entire group soon became depressed at how their little vacation is ruined by crime made you a bit sad for them. Even though you alone know that this is not the real world was not enough to make you feel bad for them, to them this is their world and their time to spend with friends and family. But then you realized they also have friends and family in the real world making you suppress your own depression and getting on with your life.

"If I may speak my piece, I have an idea." All the ponies and your team looked at you for what you were about to say changing their mood from depression to curiosity.

"Even past the dangers around this city we can still have a good time until we return home." You try to salvage whatever positive outlook they had so at least they can look back on this vacation with a smile then a frown. "There are still parts of the city that we did not go yet, I'm sure we can still have a fun day." You really can't think of any other place to do fun things, even though you explored the roofs at night you rarely stopped to look around to sight see.

Again the room was filled with silence either they are waiting for further meaning to what you were speaking or they are trying to think about anything fun to do to keep their minds preoccupied from the recent crimes.

You were trying to say something else before the pink haired one shoved her hand in her hair and pulled out a poster and then presented it to her friends.

"We can go here! The dj is very popular and her music is the best to dance to!" Her smiling visage gave the group a look of hopefulness for her positivity making you glad she took over in boosting morale.

"It does seem fun." Twilight used her magic to levitate the poster to her face to read the poster. 

"We're in luck it opens around midnight and the drinks are have off." Twilight said.

"I'm not really sure that I would like that." Fluttershy mumbled.

"Yeah, I really don't like the idea of being out that late, especially if this club treats my brother." Applejack agreed to Fluttershy's comment.

"I'm also uncomfortable with the idea about going out tonight," Rarity used her magic to levitate the poster to her but when the poster faced her she quickly covered her son's eyes before he could see what the dj was wearing or more precisely not wearing. "Especially with how they treat dress code etiquette."

"I'm sure you all need to relax, you guys should go." You said to the group.

"Yeah, ya'll need to relax too." Jonah insisted.  

"You all need to relax and enjoy today especially with how chaotic these past few days were." Mike said then removed his mother's hand away from his eyes.

"You can leave us here to know we are safe we'll be fine by ourselves." Terry gave his mother a pleading look to try and persuade her to agree with her friends to go, but it just made her more worried about if she did go.

"While you are all away we will just be here getting ready to leave the next day." You told them. "We had our time spending some where by ourselves, it only seems fair that yourselves." That was the flimsiest excuse you made up, but then again you really don't care if they want to stay indoors or out since the mission is accomplished.

"Come on! I haven't been to a good club in a while and you heard him, they'll be fine." Pinkie begged to go leading to countless pleas and hopping around to get her point made.

"For crying out loud we get it! Let's just go we only have one night so lets go!" Rainbow was the first to agree.

"I sure hope this will be worth it." Applejack also followed suit.

"I do have some cloths that I wanted to wear." Rarity was the final nail in the coffin as the rest of the group agreed making Pinkie jump higher and higher you were sure she might hit the ceiling.

"Then its agreed, we leave them here and we enjoy the rest of the day." Twilight said getting a few nods of agreement though you can still see that some was still apprehensive about the decision.

"Does that mean we can go too?" The young mare with the red bow tie asked with the other two also nodding their heads agreeing with her.

"No!" And just like that Rarity, Fluttershy, and Applejack replied at the same time that made the three young mares to look down at their feet and sulked at their immediate answer.

"Applebloom, watch over your brother." Applejack told her little sister.

"Sweetie, be sure to look after your nephew when I'm gone." Rarity told her while already adding a different shade of eye liner.

"Please look after my son, Scootaloo. I'll be sure to pay you back like I always for babysitting him." Fluttershy said while pushing her son towards her. You can also see Terry blush from embarrassment for having everyone hear that he still needs babysitting even though he's not a child anymore. Seeing as the orange pegasus blush from embarrassment also from having everyone hear that she looks after a teenager close to her age made it even more hilarious that it almost made you forget that you might need to look after your master. 

From the nasty sneer she was giving you she also cam to the same conclusion.

"I'm going out and if you think you will look after me you have another thing coming, human." Diamond said through gritted teeth.

Honestly, you would let her doing anything that is life threatening to her, but her father would be sad and he is he only pony you respected that you would begrudgingly take care of his daughter in his absence. 

"We wouldn't want your father to know you have been drinking while your on this trip , ma'am."

"Since when do I listen to someone like you?" Her voice was becoming more apparent that she was about to start her little tantrum.

You considered to let her get brick faced until both of you stopped your staring contest when both of you were lifted in the air by the princess of friendship with a strained smile on her face probably trying to conceal her annoyance.

You hated to be lifted by magic, especially when some unicorn are strong enough to use magic to carry you. The way your limbs shaking from the absence of the ground made you feel helpless... and you especially hate it when you feel helpless. 

"Let's not be to hasty now," Twilight used her magic to give you and Tiara more space between you and her and dispelled her levitation causing both of you to land on the ground. The only difference of landings was that Tiara landed on her rump while you landed face first due to your constant flailing in the air. Lifting your head up you were able to see Diamond laugh at your failure but was soon quiet when the alicorn appeared in front of her.

"We're grateful for your father for the invite, I really am, but I'm sure your father would agree that you need to stay here." The lavender pony raised her head to look at the clock next to the reception table to check the time. "It's still morning, so how about we all go out and enjoy the rest of the day before deciding when to go to this club, agreed?"

The entire group all agreed to that suggestion and soon quickly dispersed to go to their separate rooms to start the day on the right foot before you and diamond were the only ones in the main room.

You stared at her and she stared at you. For a few minutes the both of you made a silent agreement to not get in each others way, got back up[ from the floor, and walked your separate days.

After that became a blur of colors as you all enjoyed you day of just sight seeing, eating out, and also some extra shopping (much to your dismay since you carried Diamond's new cloths) before you and the rest of the younger teens stayed behind when the sun finally set making all the grown ups left to party the night away before going back home. 

You really can't complain you needed the rest and relaxation so does your team, you were glad that this mission was over and are happy to come back home. Which now leads to today, your well rested, your mission complete, and also safe and sound in your home. You told your master what happened yesterday (cutting out the parts where you were responsible for most of the trouble) and closed your mouth to hear his reply to what he has to say.

"I'm just glad that all of this is behind you both, now that your home we can all prepare for what's about to happen to our town."

You stared at him for a few seconds before you asked him what he meant.

"While you were away, the town will be pre-paring a special party for a very savvy pony, and will also be having our own fashionable pony, Rarity, to show their new designs to Ponyville, isn't that exiting!?"

You honestly can't grasp any form of excitement about fashion, but your sure Mike is over the moon including his mother. 

"Is the town already getting ready for his arrival?" You asked while getting the rest of the nags inside.

"Actually, news has already spread that he is already here," You stopped you actions to look back at your master to continue. "He's staying at one of our most luxurious hotels, he arrive just last night before you arrived." He explained.

You pondered if maybe you want to get with Mike to see how he's handling the news, but maybe not to soon since you need to do all the unpacking since you damn well that Diamond won't even lift a finger to do anything if she knows your here to do all the work. With how the sun is still up and how you need to do house chores you'll probably leave the house when everyone is asleep with that in mind you take a deep breath and exhaled out to prepared to start the day off with physical labor.

[Night time]

And that is the last thing on the to-do list, you said to yourself while putting the rest of the laundry off of the clothes rack and walked back inside of the house. For the entire day you have been catching up on some domestic work around the house and so far you already finished all of them in one day. It kind of disturbs you that your supposed to be a full time trained assassin, but at the same time your a butler to a household of rich ponies, the irony is not lost to you but for some reason you get some comfort in doing this kind of work. Makes you feel normal, a form of peaceful days that makes you feel that this is your real vacation of not doing any assassin works.

You also know that you should start getting ready for meeting Mike at his house so you quickly folded all the laundry in to neat folds and set them aside in your room for later. You went to your closet to pull out a simple dark denim jeans and black hoodie that should go well with how dark it is out side. You thought about wearing your assassin gear, but that's just overkill and you plan to just visit Mike and not start any fights if possible.

Looking outside of your room you looked both side of the dark, empty hallway before you closed your door and headed out your window. Climbing the top of the roof you see the night lights of the town including some ponies enjoying the night life makes it easier to blend in the crowds. You put your hoodie over your head to make your face obscure from view and getting a running start you jumped of the roof and landed in a pile of leaves you raked up this afternoon and with the sound of rustling leaves scattering from your landing you got back up and began running to Mike's home. 

You honestly prefer the night life in this town, not many ponies come out at night, the guards are lax, and with so little lighting you can safely have more hiding spots. In fact with so little eyes and security you made to Mike home more quickly then you thought you would be. The house itself is quite unique with the design being an actual looking carousal! Seriously, you know that he and his mother I eccentric, but this is ridiculous.

Looking around the house you see a window half open making it easier for you to enter without having to make an effort to pick any lock. As you quietly enter through the window you can only shake your head at how unsecure most ponies are in this place can be without having any thoughts about if they will ever get robbed, but before you can think of any other negative thoughts about their security you felt a kiss of a cold barrel at the back of your head making you retract your thought of their security.

"Turn around slowly." The add emphasis on the demand the holder of the gun cocked the hammer back to show their ready to fire... and ready to take a life.

At the moment you would have taken the gun and taken the person down, but since you know this person you just turned your head and was about to greet him you soon turned pale white at what you were seeing. In front of you was some undead human with it's skin melting off his face with how dim the moonlight is coming from the outside just made it all the more creepy.

"Oh My GO-MPHGH!!!" You were silenced by a hand that smelled like vanilla while the hand that was holing the gun was set aside on a nearby kitchen table.

"Do not scream my mother is having beauty sleep." He said in a hushed tone.

You stopped your screaming once you registered who your are talking to and immediately looked at him with uninterested eyes for giving you a sad excuse like that.

Mike gave a disheveled sigh before nodding his head to follow him. "My mother has been on the walls working along side one of the most fashion savvy pony, so I would like if you would not scream at this time of night."

You were about to ask him why he is wearing such a thing on his face before you started to get a good look around the place. What Mike said about his mother overworking was an understatement the entire place was like a clothes bomb had just exploded and scattered all of the place!

Your eyes adjusted enough in this dimly lit house to see clothes scattered everywhere from the floor to the furniture each piece more exotic then the last. There seems to be also large clutters of paper with design plans for clothing ranging from male to female dresses and suits with even more covering the walls and some on the windows showing how much the Rarity puts her mind to something.

"She really must want to make a good impression on this new friend of hers."

"Hoity toity first met my mother when she wanted to make dresses for her friends, though the dresses she made was actually her friends design it caused some minor misunderstanding, but luckily my mother made the dresses on her design and then when he saw them they soon became fast friends." Mike explained.

"Well, whatever those two are planning it must be huge since most of the town is gossiping around it."

"Indeed, someone as fabulous as him can make any place swarm with gossip, especially with how many ponies he brought with him." With that said you looked back at him with surprise of what you heard.

"Guests? What Guests?"

"Well, when I was taking some fabric to bring tp mother I saw a few guards wearing very sleek armor outside."

"What type of armor are they? Armor from princess Celestia or Luna?" To have armored personnel guard a pony good at fashion seems a bit far fetched, so whatever they want with him must be important for the assassins to use too.

"Actually, neither to be honest." Mike told you before speaking again. "They wore armor, but none of the common armor most guards wear." 

Your attention was now dead set to know what's happening to this town with this new development. "Do you have any details about the armor?"

Taking a moment to remember, Mike snapped his fingers to show he remembers how they look. "The armor was vastly more different then the armor most guards wear. Instead of the usual full plated armor most day and night guards wear these guards had smaller and rounder pieces of metal tied together to form a bigger piece." Mike paused and tried harder to remember more. "The armor is exotic and from e=the looks of it they are far more maneuverable then any armor the guards wear." 

You nodded at his information and started to think in your head about what all this means, if this armor was only being worn by his guards then that means that he either bought it from a far of country or he made that himself. Thinking about that made you chuckle a pony that is all about fashion able to make armor was a bit funny in your head imagining him in a forge trying to make armor at the same time trying not to get dirty.

With all this information you got you can only wait when the next mission will start for you and your team to get back in action. Looking at the clock on the kitchen wall you saw that you have been here for at least an hour talking to Mike and realizing you have what you needed to say to him.

"Thanks for the info, Mike." You said while you turned to face him only to see Mike at the sink washing away the junk off his face to show his flawless skin to you.

"Well, do I not look like I have no wrinkles?" He said while wiping off the water with a clean rag he pulled out from the kitchen drawer.

"Do you always have to make sure you look your best, even though no one else is around?" You asked him

"Well your here." He retorted.

For every time you remember Mike always made sure to look his best even when it comes to assassination, so while he was wiping away all the water from his face you asked him about his beauty obsession.

"Why do you care? Looks are a bit a dozen and your mostly covered by your hood when we assassinate a target so why care?"

After you asked him he immediately stopped using the rag, looked at you with a surprised look, and his face soon turned neutral making you think you stepped on something you shouldn't have.

"Sorry," You apologized. "If you don't want to tell me you don't need to."

"No, no, it's rude to not respond to a question." Mike neatly folded the rag, placed it back from the drawer, and set his even gaze towards you to give you his full attention.

"Unlike Jonah and Terry I never knew my parents or even the outside." Mike turned his gaze to the window showing the night sky and continued to speak. "I worked in the mines when I was a kid including other young ones, some not even human."

Diamond dogs, you know that they tend to kidnap other to work in their mines, but you never expected Mike to be one of them. You wanted to ask him more questions, but stayed silent when Mike started to speak again.

"For so long I mined many gems for the Diamond Dogs I came to a realization that I will die in those mines be it from the dangers of the mines or from the abuse of the cruel masters." Recalling those bad memories started to give mike face lines on his perfect face showing you why he wanted to know if he looks fine. Because if he needed another person to tell he's fine even though he knows he isn't.

Almost sensing your pity towards him his flawed face soon returned back to it's flawless self and spoke in a more upbeat tone.

"When me and a few young kids were about to mine a new vein on the caves I heard shouting coming from the main area where most of the diamond dogs were hold up in. Since I was one leading them I told them to wait till I return thinking that on of the other slaves were trying to escape, so I don't want them to see what the Diamond dogs to slaves trying to leave." Taking a steading breath he spoke again though you can see his hands gripping his forearms a little more tighter.

"What I saw instead was the Diamond dogs being arrested by the Canterlot guard. They freed all the slaves, but like always they still kept the humans in a separate group to be used as worker at the castle. One of the guards spotted me and tried to take me with the rest of the humans. I was still a kid so was scared of what might happen to me if I got captured, I ran away and tried to warn the other but by the time I found them they were already taken by the guards." Taking another deep breath he again tried to speak in an even tone.

"They weren't human's but I still considered them friends and tried to free them, well after a few punches and kicks from the guards thinking I was trying to attack them I was dragged back to where everyone else was. All of the slaves and the Diamond Dogs were already gone from the cave and in their place stood six ponies, you can already tell who they were."

The element. Of course, which means only one thing.

"I didn't know who they were, but the one that caught my was the most beautiful mare I ever seen from her pristine main to her flawless coat she was pony that out of place in that dark, dirty cave. The guards were escorting the rest of the kids but I was in pain from the beating the gave me earlier so I was falling behind. One of the guards was about to strike me when she was stopped by soon to be mother. When she stopped the guard she looked at me with her sapphire eyes, kneeled down to look at me, and soon cleaned the blood and dirt from my face. one thing led to another and, well, you know the rest." 

"I can't comprehend how hard it must have been for you." 

"My mother told me, that I can always look my best and I no longer have to wallow in filth for the rest of my life."

"That explains why you always make sure you look good anywhere and everywhere." You said to him.

"I know it may look annoying, but I make sure that always look my best just like my mother who I deeply respect for her generosity towards me."

"You don't to say anything more, Mike." You put both your hand and patted his shoulders.

"I'm glad you have your freedom, sort of," He nods his head to know what you mean. "I just want to be sure that it won't be a problem when things start to hit the fan."

"Don't worry, like my looks I always make sure my shots are precise."

"Good, I think I had enough of your time good talking to you, Mike."

"Of course, and if you happen to visit again Let's share a cup of coffee." Mike said before walking back to his room leaving you to leave where you entered. Looking back at the clock you see that you only have a few hours to sleep before the sun rises, as you left the house you make sure that the window was properly secured you arrived back to your house to get some rest before the next day begins.

[THE NEXT DAY]

"Hey, my dad needs these moved to the upstairs attic, and while your at it make sure that to organize when you up there." Diamond told you while shoving a box to your chest filled with neatly placed silverware for guests.

You nodded at her order and proceeded to put away the box when you saw a small pile of letters on the table near the front door. Turning around you spotted Diamond's back slowly out of your view signaling you are now alone making you put down the box and walking to the pile of letters.

The letters on the table made you assume that these were here when you and Diamond was gone from the house meaning that maybe there might be a chance a letter is here for you. Rummaging through the small pile you found a letter unlike the rest of them making you hide the letter in your pocket and to do your daily chores.

As soon as you reached the attic you placed the box in the corner where the rest of the kitchen appliances are put away, pulled the letter out of your pocket, and read what your next orders will be.

For a long period of silence you read the letter about who your next target will be and when you eyes spotted who the target's name is you eyes shot wide open from who will be dead by your hands. Folding the letter and shoving it in your pocket you realized that this target will need a more detailed plan to complete the job and you know who can help you smooth out the edges of said plan.

"Hey, you better start cleaning the attic before I go up there!"

Just as soon as your finished your chores.