Twilight had gotten a new contract, Pinkie was waiting for her at the location. A Zebra warlord, Storm Hooves, had been terrorizing a small village to the west. The client was Zecora, he was the reason she left Zebrica, he had butchered her family.

"Hey Twilereno! You ready to take this meanie pants down or what?!" Pinkie asked, grinning as she bounced in the air. Her assassin outfit was completely made out of candy.

"Of course I am Pinkie." Twilight smirked, looking at the old warehouse. It had been abandoned years ago, and Storm had taken up residence. How does that mare not get chaffed from candy rubbing her? Unless she enjoys it... Twilight mused, "Pinkie, you take the rear, I'll head in the polite way." Pinkie saluted, speeding off in her lollipop motorcycle.

Carefully picking the rusty lock, Twilight gently pushed the door in. Bodies hung on meathooks, messages scrawled in blood littered the walls. Stains from Maker knows what covered the floors and left over shipping crates. "By the Maker." Twilight muttered, staring at the carnage before her. Hearing a tick-tick-tick above her, she locked up. A grisly looking clock, crafted out of intestines for the case and bones for the hands, she recoiled in disgust. "This guys is seriously screwed up." She muttered, "The job...Killer Is Dead."

Keeping her katana at the ready, she trotted over the bodies, using the dim lights to scan for her target. That was when a raspy, baritone voice rang out.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't Lil Miss Sparkle. So, my good for nothing neice Zecora sent yah eh?" A large stage light flickered on, revealing Thunder Hooves, in all his sick glory. The Zebra wore regalia, and a crown, crafted out of bleached bones, some still containing marrow. He was bloated, and his mane had gone grey, he looked ugly as sin. "You," he couched into his hoof, wiping his nose, "Excuse me. Like ah was sayin, You think you can kill me girlie? Well, think again. I've lead guerrilla campaigns the world over, and got some of my gang with me. Bucko, Iron Side, have fun!" He cackled, as two Griffons jumped out in front of Sparkle.

"Bucko" as he was called, was a lanky, but tall Griffon. He wore a patched flannel shirt, and metal crotch protector. He wielded a thick Bo staff in both of his talons. Iron Side, on the other hoof, was built like a walking tank, decked out in full scrap metal armor, caring a flail. Bucko charged first, expertly jabbing at Twilight with his staff.

Twilight groaned, getting smacked in the face by one end. Wiping the blood from her nose, she kicked at the staff, knocking it to the ground. Bucko roared, trying to kick at Sparkle with his powerful talons. Twilight smirked. Lopping off one leg, causing him to fall to the ground, clutching the stump in agony. Groaning, he fished a stiletto out of his pocket, tossing it into the air. Twilight dodged, but just barely, the knife nicked her cheek. Advancing, she growled, stabbing through Bucko's chest with a loud, sickening SQUELCH!

Iron Side's eye flashed dangerously, his mace turning into what appeared to be a tendril. Which he fired at Twilight. She flew into the air, slicing downward, severing the tendril in half.

Iron screamed, his whole body turning into goo. Thunder applauded, "Excellent Mrs. Sparkle, excellent work. But, time for round two!" He held out a hoof. Suddenly, the corpses along the wall rose up, their faces contorted into eternal grins, that chilled Twilight to the bone. "Well black knight, your turn!" He shouted, as the Smilers, as Twilight called them, advanced in an inponane twitchy motion, as if going into rigor mortis, them restarting over and over again.

One lunged at Twilight, it's axe shaped armor being blocked by her katana. Struggling, Twilight was sent careening into a crate, which was smashed by her weight, "Mooks, you always have to win the beam clashes. Well, I'm the star of this story dang it, and I'm calling the shots!" She yelled, bucking the Smile in the face, before lopping its head off, as a spray of green liquid fell on its brethren, as they began writhing in pain, collapsing on the ground, still twitching. Twilight huffed, pointing her sword at Storm, "Game's over creep!" She yelled.

Storm grimaced, "Not yet. You see, my associate Wolf lent me not just the spell tome to conjure up the cretins you just destroyed," he gestured to the Smiles, "But, he also gave me a muscle enhancement potion!" He flexed, leaping onto the concrete floor, as a small shockwave resonated, a crater forming where he landed "Now, you may be wondering, what's a handsome psychopath like me doing with Wolf? It's quite simple, I allied with him. He gives me resources and troops, I give him Equestria's citizens in terror. He feeds on that kind of stuff, you dig?" He smirked, clapping his hooves as two the bone covered his whole body, his entire body encased in a bone crafted shell. He clapped his hooves again, a large mace, the shaft being the spine of a pony, and the blunt end was the head of a stallion, it's eyes gouged out. "Brainer, meet Twilight, Twilight, meet your doom!" He yelled, the mace crashing into the ground, sending a tidal wave of blood at Twilight.

She screamed, holding Vigilance in front, standing her ground for maybe a second, being tossed backward, landing on on top of a weapons crate, empty of course. "Checkmate Sparkle!" Storm yelled, hefting his mace.

Twilight groaned, dashing towards Strom, slashing in an arc, leaving a large cut in his arm. He yelled in pain and anger, stumbling backwards. Twilight slashed again, cutting at his chest. "That's it witch!" He yelled, back hoofing her, sending her tumbiling to the ground.

Resetting her jaw quite painfully, Twilight just barely blocked a strike from Brainer, blasting at Storm with her magic, burning him with a flame spell, and sending him backward with a buck to the face, panting. Storm groaned, rubbing his temples, slowly getting to his hooves, the majority of his armor cracked and burn from the fire. He smacked away Twilight and Vigilance, her blade falling a few feet away from her. Scrambling to her hooves, she began searching for anything she could use as a weapon. Spying a sink, she hefted it, "Hey Storm, eat everything, including the kitchen sink!" She yelled, magically tossing the sink at Storm, it slamming into his fas, his nose broken and jaw shifted.

"Yu width, you bruke mah jaw. I'll fig y-uh!-you good!" He groaned, painfully setting his jaw, blood hardening around his shattered nostrils. He grabbed a severed foreleg, chucking it at Twilight, who cut it in half, grimacing. "You broke my mace you whorse!" He yelled, Brainer shattered on the ground, skin stuck to the floor like flies on wax paper. "Now I must break you!" He roared, his hoof glowing as body parts and bones circled around his foreleg, forming into a gigantic warhammer, which he slammed into the ground. "Meet Back Breaker!" He grinned, spinning the hammer around for effect, "Bane of your flesh! It's time for the king to attack!" He charged at Twilight.

Twilight gawked, leaping up into the air, firing magic bolts at Storm, which he took, being slowly, but steadily, pushing back,his hooves leaving skid marks on the floor as he trudged forward, growling. "Is that all you got executioner? My grandma hits harder than you, and she's my couch now!" He chuckled.

Twilight fell exhausted, her eyes widening as Storm towered over her, menacing in his skeletal armor, Warhammer raised high. "Checkmate S-"

CLANG!

Storm mumbled incoherently, before tipping and falling on his face, having been hit over the head with a comically oversized frying pan, dented now. "Stay away from my lavender buddy!" Pinkie yelled, waving the frying pan, helping Twilight o her hooves, "You alright Twi?" She asked, concerned as she lightly kicked Storm back down.

Twilight rubbed her head, magically recalling and sheathing her katana, "Aside from my head feeling like its been hit by a semi-truck on meth, I'm fine!" She mumbled, as Pinkie gingerly placed an ice bag on her head, "Thanks Pinks." She sighed, turning to Storm, unsheathing her katana, lifting into to the air, "Killer Is Dead." She exclaimed the Justiciars' Morton, swinging the blade downward, cleaving Storm's head free from its constraint, which she placed in a specifically made sack. "Alright, time to drop this off at Zecora's." she took flight, Pinkie following behind on the ground, singing.

---Canterlot---

Twilight smiled, licking the last bit of honey off Celestia's Cutie Mark, grinning, "All done." She smiled, nuzzling her mare. "The contract went a bit awry when he started battering me, but thanks to your "attention" I'm fine now." She muttered, closing her eyes, as sleep over took her.

----An Unknown Location---

The Wolf frowned, knocking the figurines of Storm Hooves, Iron Side, and Bucko off, as the figure of Twilight moved forward, proppeled by an unseen hoof, "And three more fall." Wolf sighed, the fates did not seem to favor him, "But, only time will tell." He stared at the glowing moon which hung in the sky, a small castle just barely visible with the naked eye. "At least the ponies are afraid, good, it's so refreshing to stir up the pot now and again." He chuckled darkly, his eyes flashing red in the dim light of his chambers, echoing across the round, before reverberating back, dust falling off the unswept pillars.

The Wolf stomped his hoof, as two whimpering shadow ponies appeared, "You, fetch me some wine." He pointed to the one on the right, who scampered off, "And you, fetch me the steak, this is going to be along, long night." The shadow pony nodded hastily, galloping away as fast as its scrawny legs would allow it to.

The Wolf drummed his hooves on the foreleg bars of his throne, staring at the large, beautiful moon, the scant ligh it generated bathed the room in an ethereal, ghostly glow, his white coat shining in the moonlight. "Beautiful. The night has always been beautiful to my kind." He bared his twin fangs, "And it's all mine." He said, as the moon reflected on his iris, glimmering in the night.

Wolf smiled, slipping off his robe, leaving him bare aside from the crown, which he placed on a nearby stand, "Well, my gorgeous black knight, make your move." He smirked, using the pillars for support, as he spread his hind and fore legs, his blonde tail swishing as he moved aside, hi groomed mane billowing, "I'm ready for you!" He laughed at the moon, licking his lips of the blood, that sweet necter of life than ran through many mortals. He sat down, "Twilight Sparkle, black knight to my white king." He smirked, the moon smiling back, his Cutie Mark shining in its radiant light, nearly glowing.

----Canterlot----

A parchment flitted into the bedroom, where Celestia and Twilight lay snuggled in eachother's forelegs. Celestia yawned, levitating the scroll over, "Ah, Twilight a new contract has been assigned." Celestia hummed, readit over.

Twilight turned, grabbing her katana, which lay by the nightstand. "Who?"

"Your next contract is for...."

Author's Note

Credits to Superdale33 for the contract! :)