Humanity at it's Craziest

"There is somepony I want you too meet." Neon said, trotting around the platform in the middle. "I have many allies, but I want you to meet this one first."

"Um, ok? So who are they and where are they?"

"Well they are currently in the middle of this platform. Want to say hi?" Neon said, moving around and onto the platform, out of Rainbows view. Rainbow soon after followed and was quite amazed at what she saw. Inside the platform were many bright 'windows' showing different things. One had numbers that were constantly changing while another had a park with ponies walking around and talking. "I'll explain what these are later, I want you to meet Unknown first."

That was when she noticed the chair in the middle of the room with a desk in front of it. The chair spun around to show of a rather peculiar sight. It was a pony, but it was anywhere from normal. From what Rainbow could tell it was a she. She had a ruffled purple mane, only slightly lighter than Twilights, and a black coat. Some of her obvious features though, were her eyes, hooves and her wings. Her eyes were slitted and reptilian and her wings looked like dragon wings but fitted to the size of a pony, the hooves weren't exactly hooves though. They where more like griffon claws except draconic if that makes sense. She also had a distinct lack of a cutie mark.

"Hello." She said, showing of her sharp teeth and slit tongue. Her voice was rather normal but had a slight 'hiss' to it, but it wasn't very noticeable.

Rainbow just continued to stare for some time until Neon poked her in the face, grinning. "Well? Are you going to say hi back?"

"Um, yeah... Hi." Rainbow said, still staring at the creature infront of her.

"As I was saying, this is Unknown and she is a half-dragon. She is also one of my best allies and the most reliable source of intel on Equis. I found her, or should I say, she found me back a two-thousand years ago. I had stumbled upon her den by accident after a big fight and had fallen asleep. I was still getting used to the Equine body so I wasn't the best fighter. She came back and found me, and lucky for me, she chose to not eat me! When I woke up though she had me in a cage and since I was still healing from the fight and F is a dick when I really need him, I was unable to escape. Funny thing was, she didn't know I could speak dragon. I managed to convince her to let me go and gave her an offer. I would let her live in my secret base, with my gem stash for food, as long as she wants if she would monitor things for me. Since she literally had nothing better and was quite lonely being the only half-dragon in Equestria, she took the offer. She has been living here for the last two-thousand years and helping me ever since."

"Well... that was interesting." Was all that Rainbow could manage to say.

"He left out the part where we had sex." Said Unknown, cheekily.

"Yes, but that wasn't particularly important." Neon said, moving around and watching the 'windows'. "Have we had any activity from Celestia?"

"Yes actually. She has made a small elite team to track you down. Fifteen in total. From what I've seen most of them are high level mercenary's, but they haven't started the hunt yet and would be much easier to take down sooner than later." Unknown said. She turned around in the chair and started to tap a board on the desk and the 'windows' changed to show some pictures of Celestia and different ponies talking.

"Ok, pull up the locations of the best fighters of the group and ready team B to take their place." Neon said as the windows changed to show 5 different ponies. They all looked very menacing and, judging by their equipment, very dangerous. "I will take out numbers 1,3 and 4," He pointed at the respective ponies. "and team B can handle the other two if they split up. Tell them to make sure its a quiet operation. I don't want any problems. Also, take them alive if possible. I would like to see what information I could get out of them."

After that, he vanished only to show up on one of the screens. He was standing behind one of the mercenary's who was in a private room, number 3 she thought, looking ready to pounce. He jumped forward and slammed number 3's head down on the floor of the room. Somehow 3 managed to stay concious, but that didn't matter because Neon quickly dashed forward again and gave him a hard hit to the face. He then vanished from the room, no doubt going for another mercenary. Rainbow didn't really want to see what else he was going to do so instead she focused on number 2's window.

Number 2 was currently trotting down a street, many of the ponies were making way for him and just avoiding him all together. Probably because of how menacing he looked. He turned a corner and kept walking. This street was mostly clear though, almost no ponies except for a few vendors here and there. Once he passed the first stall the vendor trotted out and up behind him, following him up to the middle of the street where the other stalls were. Once he reached the middle all the vendors jumped out and attacked him. He only managed to hit one of the attackers in the face before he was overwhelmed and knocked unconscious. They then dragged his asleep form into a nearby alleyway. The vendor who was hit looked dizzy but other than that he was fine.

By the looks of things on the other screens, Neon had already gotten his targets in the time it took for number 2 to go down. He was just finishing of number 4 now in fact. Jab to the ribs and a killer hook to the face, he was down. Didn't seem dead though, still breathing to the relief of Rainbow.

"So, how are the other teams going?" Neon asked, appearing back next to Rainbow.

"They took down number 2 quickly and without witnesses, but they had to improvise and knock out some civi's before hoof. They are also about to engage upon number 5. Want to watch?" Unknown replied making number 5 be on the biggest window in the middle.

"Hell yeah." Neon replied in a huff. "But after this you are helping me get some food."

"Got it."

Rainbow paid attention to the screen seeing that the last mercenary was actually in the castle. By the look of things there was guard ponies on almost every corner. She also noticed a 'window' off to the left showing a hallway with about 5 guards stationed. Below that 'window' was another showing a map of the area. On the map there were multiple red triangles, most likely guards, standing in hallways and one golden triangle, definitely the mercenary walking towards the hallway on the screen above. Then out of almost nowhere, 7 green triangles came onto the map into the hallway on with the 5 guards. When Rainbow looked up to the 'window' above though, there wasn't any other ponies.

"Um, is that map not working or something?" Rainbow asked pointing towards the 'window'. "It says that team B is in that hallway but I don't see anypony but those guards and they are showing up on the map also."

"Wow, I actually thought it would take you longer to understand that." Neon said in slight amazement. "But no, that map isn't faulty. Just watch." He pointed back to the main screen showing the 5 guards.

Some seconds later Rainbow watched, creatures drop down from the roof of the hallway and landed on the guards, effectively knocking them all out at the same time. It took Rainbow a little while to realise that the creatures were actually changelings! They then began to drag the unconscious guards into a nearby room and lock them in. The changelings then took place of the guards and if Rainbow didn't see what just happened she wouldn't have known any better. It looked exactly like it did less than a minute ago. She then looked at the map and realised that it would take at least a couple of minutes for the mercenary to reach them. Perfect, gave her just enough time for her next question.

"Are you working with changelings?"

"Why yes my dear Rainbow." Neon said cracking a grin. "What is the problem?" Ok, now he was just faking innocence.

"You know what the problem is! Why are you working with changelings! You can't trust though's bugs!" She was really angry. After all that had happened with the whole changelings and the wedding though, who wouldn't?

"Actually... they never did anything that made them untrustworthy. They were simply just trying to take over Equestria. Do you know why they were trying to take over? It was because you ponies are very xenophobic. You don't trust anything outside of you species. They would have happily just joined Equestria. But noooo. You ponies just didn't care about that. You were all to scared to even consider something outside of 'Kill all the bugs!'." Neon actually held a completely stoic expression through out that whole speech, but Rainbow knew he was angry. Damn soul sharing.

"Wow... I actually didn't know that. Damn, I feel like an ass now."

"Hey! You just causally swore! I'm so proud!" Neon said while hugging Rainbow, much to her disagreement. "Anyway, no hard feelings. The only reason nopony ever found out was Ol' Celli. So it was technically her fault."

"You still got to tell me what's happening with her."

"All in good time. Anyway, the actions about to begin." Neon said motioning towards to 'window' again.

Rainbow looked back over to see that the mercenary was almost at the corridor with the imposters, otherwise known as team B apparently. That was when she noticed to five other guards escorting the mercenary. This fight was going to be a good one.