The Syndicate

Equestrias gone to shit ever since Princess Celestia retired and left Princess Luna to rule. Luna seems to be super stressed because she went on vacation about a month ago and left Twilight Sparkle in charge. I thought this to myself as I took a midnight stroll through Canterlot. As I walked I heard faint hoof steps from behind. I slowly turned my head to see if he was following me but I saw no one. I came to a stop when I bumped into someone. I was about to apologize, but then I got a better look at the pony I bumped into. He was built and much taller than me, his coat was a dark brown, almost black. The tall stallions mane and tail reminded me of Shining Armors only it was dark red with a white stripe in it. “Are y'all gonna say sorry fer bumpin' into meh, or ya just gonna stare?” I blinked a few times out of shock that he had such a thick country accent.

“Oh, I-I'm sorry,” I stammered and took a few steps back only to bump into someone else.

“Awe, don't make her apologize. It's not like we're going to apologize for what we're going to do to her.” I turned to see a light blue unicorn with a dark purple mane staring mischievously down at me. I looked back and forth between the two and tried to find a way to get out. That wasn't much help considering we were in a narrow alleyway with two tall buildings on each side. The tall dark brown pony was getting closer to me by the second.

“Uhm, what are you planning on doing, because my sister is expecting me soon.” I said as my eyes darted from the unicorn to the earth pony. I was starting to back up against one of the buildings.

“Oh we're just going to play a little game with you,” the unicorn said with a creepy, seductive tone in his voice. I was against the wall completely now and the blue unicorn placed his hand on it right beside my head. He stroked my cheek with one of his fingers and that's when I punched him in the face as hard as I could.

He stumbled backwards holding his nose and yelled a muffled, “bitch!” I felt my wings rustle under my jacket and I started to take it off. Before I could even unzip it the other pony smashed me against the wall by my neck.

“Y'all just made a bad move,” he said as he started to unzip my jacket with his other hand.

“I'm going to kill you slowly when we're done with this,” the unicorn spat angrily. The earth pony was squeezing my neck rather hard so my words came out sounding choked and breathless.

“That sounds really kinky, I'm into that kind of shit.” If he wasn't already pissed enough, that made it worse. He practically ripped my jacket off me, and it seemed like he regretted it. I spread out my big maroon wings letting them be a quick distraction as I kneed the brown in the nuts. He dropped to the ground and I took off Into the air. I was surprised that the unicorn didn't try and stop me.

As uncomfortable as flying made me feel I decided not to risk it and just flew all the way to my sister’s place. As I walked in I was engulfed in a hug by a very familiar smelling someone. “Uhm, well its nice to see you to Desani,” I said as he released me from his death hug.

His cheeks flushed and he said, “Sorry, it’s been awhile since I’ve seen you two.” I laughed and walked further into the condo.

“What happened to you sis?” Psychro said as she finished up washing dishes.

“Whatever do you mean sis,” I mocked her, she scowled at me and said.

“You have wind hair and there's dried blood on your knuckles.” She scanned me and continued, “your jackets also missing,” I sighed and plopped down on the couch.

“It’s nothing bad just some stupid guys messing with me. I punched one in the nose and kneed the other in the no-no-zone.” Desani looked at me questioningly, like he knew that wasn't the full story.

“Tell the whole story,” Psychro said with an attitude. I explained word for word what had happened, Desani busted out laughing when I was done.

I glared at him, “how is any of that funny?”

He caught his breath and wiped a tear from his eye, “who would want to rape you? I mean seriously look at you.” He started laughing again, Psychro pinned him to the floor with magic.

“You still think it’s funny?” I said getting on top of him and raising my fist as if I were going to punch him the face.

His eyes were wide with shock, “n-no, you took it the wrong way Dacno. I meant as in it would be arrogant to even attempt that because you don't look like the type of pony to fuck with.” He smiled sheepishly as I got off of him and Psychro stopped using her magic to hold him down. “I hate it when you use your magic on me, its so cold,” Desani said as he shivered.

Psychro smiled and sat on the couch, “good, I like the cold.”

We all sat on the couch then I asked Desani, “why are you here anyways?

He sighed and said, “well since I haven't seen you two in a long time I want to take the both of you out to do something special,” he put his arms around me and Psychro.

“Yeah?...i thought you said you wouldn't come back to Canterlot until Luna was back?” Psychro questioned.

“And how did you know I was staying with her?” I asked him.

He put his arms down from around us, “I went to your house first, you weren't home so...I decided to come here.”

We sat there in silence for a moment, then Psychro said, “so what's this special thing you have planned?”

Desani perked up and said, “oh, just this show that's in Canterlot.”

I sighed and said, “a show or one of those rave things, that you took us to last time.”

He smiled really big, “its a rave, but it’ll be awesome this time. Its tomorrow night and you're going no matter what, okay,” he said firmly.

Psychro yawned and rubbed her left eye, “its really late guys, we should probably get to sleep. I only have one spare bedro-”

“called it!” Desani yelled, cutting Psychro off.

She glared at him and continued, “anyways i guess you will sleep with me then, Dacno?”

I looked at her and laughed, “you know I hate being touched, that means by you too. I’ll sleep on the couch and guard the place, I don't trust those guys I bumped into.” She sighed and got off the couch, grabbing Desani’s hand to lead him to the spare room. Did he just blush? It would make sense with her bright white coat and her burgundy hair. She gets lots of attention from guys, Psychro was really nice to strangers too. Her icy blue eyes surprisingly didn't intimidate others. I jumped when I heard, what sounded like, a gun shot from outside. I quickly raced to the window, it was the stallions that I ran into earlier.

“Looks like they found another girls to mess with,” I said out loud.

I headed for the door, “wait, you can't go out there unarmed,” Psychro said. I turned around, she was holding a big kitchen knife, and behind her was Desani.

“That won't do much good against a gun and if Desani goes with me I won't need a weapon,” I smiled and turned back to the door, opened it, and went out, Desani following behind me.

We were outside and I yelled, “hey there guys, I see you found another victim.”

They turned around, the blue Unicorn was holding the gun, “oh her, she was just to get your attention.” He looked at the dead mare, she had a yellow coat and an orange mane that was gurly. She was also a Unicorn and looked like a typical Canterlot pony.

I put my hand on my hip and said, “thats real low, why didn't you just knock on the door?”

He glared at me and said, “I didn't want to get that pretty little sister of yours involved,” he looked up to the second story window, where Psychro was looking at us from, and winked at her while waving. She flipped him the bird and then he looked back at me. “Whos this loser behind you?”

The Unicorn asked me but Desani answered, “I’m not a loser, and why are you using a gun when you have a horn?”

That seemed to piss the blue guy off, “oh, yeah I forgot to tell you my name, its Magic Stars, but heres the catch. I can’t use my magic.”

Desani giggled at this and said, “so you’re magicless stars?” Magic walked closer to Desani and aimed the gun at his face, Desani stopped giggling, then looked at the gun and busted out laughing.

I rolled my eyes and said, “don’t even bother trying to threaten him its useless.”

Magic then turned on me and said, “then i’ll just play with you.” He smiled as he pointed the gun at my face. I stared down the shaft of the gun and into his bright yellow eyes. Hes a crazy pony, who just kills for fun? As that thought ran through my head I just stared into his eyes blankly and cold. “Why are you looking at me so calmly? You’re supposed to be scared.” Magic practically spat the words in anger and frustration.

Desani giggled, “why would we be afraid of some pussy, magicless unicorn?” I glanced at him then looked back at Magic. He was pointing the gun at Desani now, I looked behind him and noticed that the earth pony was missing. I felt a strong beefy hand go around both of my upper arms. I turned my head to see the big earth pony, I tried to get away but at the moment I heard the deafening sound of a gunshot. I quickly turned my head to see Desani grabbing his left shoulder and looking down at it. Magic Stars shot him again only this time in the leg. Desani dropped to his knees, his sharp looking wings expanded and then he fell to his side. He was laying there, motionless, in a puddle of his own scarlet blood.

“Desani! What the fuck, why did you shoot him!?” I yelled.

“So no one will be in my way while I deal with you,” Magic said as he put the gun in his jacket pocket. He then threw my jacket at me, I tried to catch it but my arms were still being restrained, I struggled against his strong grip but it did nothing but make me tired. “There's your jacket back, by the way,” I gave him a look of hatred, he laughed, “sorry but this is the only way I can get my magic back.” He stroked my cheek, and I jerked my head away from him.

“Killing people is the only way you can get your magic back?” I asked in utter confusion.

He grabbed my face and made me look him in the eyes, “no stupid girl, killing you and your other companions is.” Magic glanced over at Desani, he was just laying there lifeless, and it looked like he had stopped bleeding. I saw his wing twitch and then I noticed that the bullet holes were closed up. I looked at him questioningly, Magic noticed this and looked at Desani. He sat up and smiled creepily, showing off his sharp k-nines. His eyes were hidden behind his hair but I could tell that he was staring directly at Magic. Magic took out his gun and shot again but the bullet froze in mid air. “The fuck?” He said looking around, he spotted Psychro standing in front of her apartment building. “You,” Magic spat the word and glared at my sister.

“Did you think eliminating us would be a walk in the park? If so, you were wrong, very wrong.” Psychro said as she used her magic to pick up the frozen bullet and shot it back at Magic.

He dodged it and then said, “I will get you, all five of you, come on Clank,” Magic motioned for his partner to come. Clank let go of me and ran after Magic. I helped Desani up and into Psychro’s condo.

I sat him on the couch, then turned to Psychro, “what the fuck was that about?”

She ignored my question and said, “are you two okay?”

“Yeah, yeah, we’re fine, now tell me what all that was, because you obviously know.” I sat down on the couch angrily, and then crossed my arms as I stared her down. She walked up to Desani, who was sitting, hunched over and holding his shoulder, right beside me.

She looked at his leg. “I thought you knew sis?” She said as she helped him lay down on the couch, I got up and walked over to the closet, that was right beside the front door, and grabbed a blanket.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” I gave her the blanket and she draped it over Desani’s sleeping body.

“Lets talk in the guest bedroom, okay," she said looking up at me.