Clear Vision

Chapter 2 - Death's Doorstep

Ha-ha! I knew I could count on you to finish the job! What can I say? You’re a natural!

Still, it’s a shame that you didn’t kill the last filly, but I understand you don’t normally kill little kids like them.

Anyways, the money’s been transferred over to your account. 4500 dollars total, there’s a lil’ extra for you in there, consider it as a bonus.

Bobby

Tyler read the e-mail as soon as he woke up early this morning, hoping to get the money he was promised. He logged into his Golden Pegasus bank account online and surely enough, the money is safely deposited into his bank account.

Filled with excitement, he put on his clothes as fast as he could, put on his saddlebags and rushed out into the streets, running through the crowd of ponies and unicorns dressed in business casuals. As soon he spotted the bank, he ran in and told the accountant to withdraw half of his money from his account. And within minutes, the accountant gave him 2000 dollars, neatly stacked and wrapped in cheap paper. He thanked the accountant and ran back again to his apartment.

Finally, he can get rid of his burden that was on his chest for so long. He can pay the rent, repay his friend’s cash and above all, having a good meal he has ever had for days. By the time he reached back home to his apartment, he was already out of air right now. And about a meter away, he sees Elizabeth, still dressed in her night clothes and wearing her jacket to keep her warm, still chilly from the cold early-morning air.

“Good…huff… huff… mornin’, Eliza… huff… beth…” Tyler said, smiling at her and trying to speak and catch his breath.

“Good morning, Tyler.” Elizabeth, shyly smiling at him back, “What’s with the racket? And why are you-“but before she could say anything else, Tyler pulled out a stack of dollar bills from his saddlebag, neatly wrapped in paper and tossed it at her. Elizabeth caught it with both her hooves and unwrapped the paper, and her eyes glittered when she saw the stack of money. “Where did you…?” she asked while looking at Tyler and looking back at the money again.

“New job… huff…” Tyler took a deep breath, this time. Letting the air fill his lungs, “I got paid after the first day. Definitely worth quitting my old one.”

“Congratulations, Tyler!” she trotted her way to Tyler and gave him a quick hug. His face immediately turned red once she came close to him, and filling his nose with her scent from her mane. “Well,” she looked at the money again, still smiling. “This might actually be enough for a few months…”

“Well, I got something else to do. See ya!” Tyler said when he walked away.

“Good bye.”

Tyler went back into his apartment and laid on his bed. For the first time, he can finally rest easy. No more shitty bosses, no more calls from his friend reminding him to pay him back his money, just good ol’ fashioned hitman job. He closed his eyes for a minute until the sun rises when he heard a beeping tone from his computer he forgot to turn off. Tyler groaned as he walked over to his computer, looking at the red exclamation mark next to the yellow bell notification. He moved his hoof over the laptop’s track pad and clicked on the new message on his inbox called ‘Important matters’.

Greetings, Tyler.

I got a message from Bobby earlier. You know, the guy who gave you a contract? Anyways, my wife is having an affair with this pizza delivery guy who delivers pizzas to our house almost all the time. One time, the neighbour caught him and my wife having sex at the back of our house!

Here’s the deal, 3000 dollars if you can take him out. By this afternoon at 2.30 P.M., my wife will be away for a couple of hours, giving you the perfect opportunity to eliminate him.

He works over at Lucky Daffodil’s pizzeria, so you know the delivery number. I’ll leave our house address below.

After he read the message and wrote down the house address, he searched the delivery number of Lucky Daffodil’s Pizzeria’s and wrote it down on the same piece of paper he had written down below the address. Since the client’s house is in a neighbourhood, there’s no need for him to use his sniper rifle for this. Instead, he took out a small butterfly knife from his kitchen drawer, doing a few tricks to get a feel of it. And since the neighbourhood is small, there is a small chance of him being spotted.

But of course, using a knife is also too risky. Luckily, he happen to have a tranquilizer gun and a few darts filled with deadly poison, which may help him in killing his target in a breeze.

He waited until 2.30 in the afternoon and waited for another fifteen minutes, and he took out his cell phone and dialled the delivery number. “Lucky Daffodil’s Pizzeria, how may I help you?” a mare’s voice said over the phone.

“Uh, hi. I’d like to order your pineapple and rose petal pizza, please.”

“Very well, can you tell us your house address, please?” he told her the house address, “Very well, your order will arrive in twenty minutes. Thank you for choosing Lucky Daffodil’s Pizzeria.”

“Oh, and one other thing?” Tyler asked the mare over the phone.

“Anything else you require, sir?”

“Can you send the same pony who always delivers to my house, please?”

“Not a problem, thank you sir.”

“Alright, thanks.” He hung up and stomped on his cell phone, smashing it into pieces, so that the cops won’t be able to track his number. He put on his jacket, slipping his forelegs through the sleeves and slipped his incredibly-small tranquilizer gun, along with a few additional darts in case he misses. He walked out, catches the first taxi he sees and heads to his destination.

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20 minutes pass by...

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He paced up and down along the sidewalk, waiting patiently for the delivery pony to arrive with the pizza. He hid his tranquilizer gun in his sleeve, since it’s easily concealable and faster for him to draw his weapon faster. He also has to be careful about the darts in his jacket pocket, since he is also paranoid the tip of the one of the darts could poke through the fabric and kill him.

Another minute has passed and he saw a figure of a Pegasus flying over the house it’s delivering. ‘Perfect.’ Tyler thought to himself, he slid the tranquilizer into his hoof from his sleeve and aimed at the delivery pony. He pulled the trigger and the dart hit the Pegasus in the flank. He yelped in pain and reached his hoof to feel what had bit him, and he is shocked to find a dart once he pulled something out from his flank. The Pegasus’ head started to spin and felt weak in seconds, half a minute later, he collapsed. Tyler quickly ran over the corpse and picked up the dart that hit him, never did he know that he could pull out this stealth assassination quick and easy without anypony looking. He quickly ran back to his apartment, hoping that nopony saw him.