Pony by Day, Mercenary by Night

Here’s chapter one everypony

“Sister?! Did you see that?” Luna asked

“No Luna, what happened?” Celestia responded.

“Celly, we saw a shadow around the corner of the balcony.”

“Luna, it was just a trick of the light, I doubt anypony would get to our balcony without alerting any of the guards, and I certainly can’t think of a reason for one of my little ponies to try and break into Canterlot castle.”

“Sister! We saw something! We swear!”

“Very well Luna, let’s go see this ‘shadow’ of yours.”

“Crap” was all that was Sev could say as the two horses made their way to investigate the shadows that he and Ghost had cast. His mind working in overdrive as he tried to think of a plan to escape from this unfavorable situation.  He thought of the previous times he’d been caught in the presence of nobility, or at the very least, significant people.  Every time he was apprehended ended with him getting thrown into a prison, not that that really did anything to deter him, he’d always break out of prisons within a week, and kill the figures responsible for his capture, slowly and painfully, to send a message.  But, for some reason, these horses made him feel warm on the inside, oddly enough, the white one sounded rather motherly, whereas the blue one emitted an aura of loneliness.  Sev knew that feeling, he knew it all too well, loneliness, being isolated from everyone else, for what ever reason, for him, it was because the other kids were scared of him, they hated him.

Flashback, 11 years ago, Brooklyn New York

Sev was eight, he had just finished his homework, and asked his mother if he could go to the local park nearby, his mother, a beautiful overworked woman just smiled at him.

“Yes Sev, but please, do hurry back before sunset.” She said in a soft, motherly tone.

“Yay! Thanks mommy!” Sev said as he hugged his mother.

Fifteen minutes later

Sev three blocks away from the park when a group of adolescent boys called him.

“Yo kid!” Called up a blonde adolescent.

“Hey guys, wanna play?”  Asked the smiling young boy; his jet black hair perfectly complementing his dark brown eyes and slightly tanned skin.

“No go away you freak!”  Yelled a larger kid

“Your kind isn’t welcome in this country asshole! Pack your bags and get your ass back to your poor-ass dirka-dirka country before I kick it there!”  Yelled an adolescent with red hair.

“Yeah, my dad said I can’t play with terrorists, he said you might try to convert me to your devil worship ways.” Yelled the older Caucasian child with blond hair, this one clearly in his adolescent years, his age evident due to the acne that coated his face.  He sneered as he looked down at Sev, and tried to push him away.  Sev didn’t budge as the child tried pushing him.  He made a quick gesture with his head as two other adolescent boys grabbed Sev by his arms and held them back.  He slowly walked towards Sev, sneering as he watched Sev’s face, now completely void of emotion.  Sev stared back, blankly at the adolescent boy.

“Oh, a tough guy huh?  What? Are you training to join the neo-terrorists?  Hmm?  Trying to-“

The boy was cut off as Sev launched his head at the boy’s chin. The boy yelped up in pain as Sev’s headbutt caused him to bite through the tip of his tongue, now profusely bleeding.  The other two adolescents dropped Sev in shock, they clearly were not expecting something like this from the boy who was quietly in their grasp mere moments ago.

“People, like you, people like you, make me sick.” Sev said as he walked up to the two adolescents, now backing away in fear, they looked at Sev’s face, but all they saw were  his eyes, once previously filled with life, and hope, now cold, and dead.

“What did I ever do?” Sev asked them in a hushed tone.

“Is it because of the religion of my parents?  Is it because of my religion? Why?  Is my skin two shades too dark for you to associate yourselves with me?  Don’t worry, I’ll make your skin darker, then we can all play together and be friends.” Sev said, as a maniac smile appeared on his face. He slowly made his way towards the now cowering boys who were slowly backing away.  One of them tried running away, but Sev was already on him, he jumped onto the boy’s back and as fast as a heartbeat, he had his arm around the boy’s neck.  With a quick twitch of his shoulder, Sev snapped the boy’s neck, and silenced him.  The blonde boy Sev headbutted a while ago was dead at this point, drowned in his own blood.  The last boy now was clearly terrified.  His pupils were the size of pinpricks as was now attempting to yell for help, but all that came out of his mouth were choked gargles as Sev was already on him, his hands around the boy’s throat.  The boy’s eyes were bulging as Sev pushed him down with his own weight.  He tried to push Sev off of him, but the lack of oxygen did not play out in the boys favor.  The world was slowly fading to black, and all the boy could see, was Sev’s wide, toothy smile.

Twenty minutes later

Sev had disposed of the bodies in a nearby landfill and was at his doorstep.

“So my little policeman, what did you do at the park today?” Asked Sev’s mother.

“Oh mama, it was so fun!”  Beamed Sev as he gave her a toothy grin.  “I made three new friends today, they wanted me to stay at the park for a bit longer, but I told them that I had to come back home.”

Return, present time

Sev was panicking at this point, the horses were getting closer by the second, and he couldn’t see any means of escape.

“Hey! Ghost look! An open window!” Whispered Sev “Quick, go through it! I’ll follow you!”

“…” Ghost replied, the anxiety evident in his voice as he made his way through the windowsill.

“See Luna, there’s nothing here” chided Celestia, “You were just seeing things.”

“But sister! We saw something here! We swear it!  And don’t tell us that thou dost not feel the disruption in this area's magic.”

“You’re right Luna, I feel a disturbance in the magic force.  And it seems to be coming from that cardboard box!”

EXCLAMATION MARK!

Celestia proclaimed as a cardboard box that was previously slowly crawling along the floor suddenly came to a stop as Celestia stared at it.  She removed the box with her magic to find Ghost crouched on the floor.  She then asked Ghost

“What are you doing here in my castle, how did you get in here?”

“…” Ghost replied, his voice dripping with malice and disdain

“Oh? So that’s how you want to play?” Celestia asked.  She then proceeded to unceremoniously slam Ghost against the nearest wall of the room, and hold him there with her magic.

“Luna, alert the guards, I’ll try to get some answers out of this…THING.”

“Yes sister”, Luna replied as she quickly telported to the guard's barracks to alert them.  Celestia held Ghost against the wall with her magic, steadily increasing the pressure she held him with.

“You know, I’m only going to-“

“…” interrupted Ghost.

“How did you know that?” Asked Celestia

“…” Replied Ghost in a bored tone

“The fourth what? What author?” asked Celestia now very confused and wondering if Ghost was insane.

“…” replied Ghost in a condescending tone, he was clearly enjoying Celestia’s discomfort.

However, it was then that Ghost heard the guards coming down the hall, a whole battalion of armor clad pegasii, earth ponies, and unicorns.

“…” said Ghost, he had done this countless times already, it was second nature to him by now.

He removed a smoke grenade from the inside of his cloak and pulled the pin, Celestia, believing it to be a dangerous weapon, increased the pressure on Ghost.

“Drop it!”  She commanded

“…” Replied Ghost in as smug a tone as was possible.

The guards had just made their way to the room, when Ghost dropped the smoke grenade, smirking ever so slightly as he did so.  The grenade went off, and it was enough to make Celestia lose her concentration long enough for Ghost to quickly reach out and snip off a piece of her mane, he then proceeded to grab pieces of mane from seven other guards, and made his down a hall. He was looking for Sev, but couldn't seem to find him.

*(Whistle)*

Ghost looked near another windowsill and found Sev squatting on it.

“The hell took you so long?  In the amount of time it took you to get here, I could have seen Farshot get rejected by at least eight girls.”

“…” Ghost silenly chuckled.

“Well, let’s go”

“…!”

“Yeah, Ghost?”

“…”  Ghost asked somewhat angrily

“Where was I during the time you were caught by that white horse thing?  Well, after you set your grenade off, I snuck behind her and hit a pressure point near her collarbone; she should be unconscious for thirteen more minutes.” Ghost had calmed down, glad he wasn’t betrayed by his leader, but still wanted to say something.

“…” Ghost retorted.

“Yeah?  Well fuck you too Ghost. Anyway, let’s get out of here.”

“…” Agreed Ghost.

“…”

“What’s that Ghost? You got me eight DNA samples?  Perfect, now to share these with the squad, I’m sure they’ll wanna hear what happened to us.

“…” agreed Ghost

After a few long hours of trekking in the shadows, they finally came across their ship, still mostly, submerged under the water.

“HEY GUYS!”  Yelled Sev “YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE WHAT WE SAW BACK THERE!”

End Chapter

A/N: Sorry about the short chapter guys, I've just been a bit busy this week, but I'm still trying to keep quality as high as I can, and, If I made any errors in the story, feel free to comment/pm me about it.