"Welcome back you two, how was your trip?" Mr. Rich asked with a welcoming smile and his arms stretched wide as a sign for a incoming hug.

You were only halfway inside with all Diamond's luggage strapped around your arms while the heavier bags were sitting outside waiting for him comeback and take them to Diamond's room. It would be not so bad if she did not live upstairs, but you just took all the trouble in stride and your master a hell before you were pushed aside by your young brat of a master.

"I'm home daddy!" Diamond shouted in joy while she gave her dad a hug. The stallion lifted her up and began to spin with her in his arms, both laughed and you could not help put a smile at the scene in front of you. That moment was soon shattered when Mr. Rich put her daughter down and her happy face soon turned to a fierce sneer when she saw you standing in place.

"Well, hurry up! you still have my the rest of my bags outside, so pick up the pace." To add insult she snapped her fingers at you then walked upstairs to her room leaving you and her dad alone.

"It seems my Diamond is still the same filly even after the trip you two had." He shook his head and gave you a tire smile.

"Can't expect her to change in just a few days, sir." You both made a tired sigh at what you meant and chuckled in understanding since both of you know what you go through with her.

"I'm just glad that you are doing well after what happened." Your master gave you a look of concern for your well being but you just patted his shoulder as a sign that you are doing just fine.

You should expect he should be worried about what happened a few days ago. After you were able to get back to base after the assassination of your target you and the rest of your team took a long nice nap that soon came to an abrupt end when Applejack barged in and woke up her brother to head upstairs. After she took her brother from the room Rarity came next telling her son to wake up from his beauty sleep and immediately dragged him in is tired stupor out the door as his hair flung wildly around while running behind his mother already out of the door the final pony was of course Fluttershy with a frantic face came zooming in and standing next to her son still trying to wipe the sleep off his eyes when she lifted her son on his feet, immediately took his arm and pulled him along side her to main room leaving you alone, half asleep, wondering what just happened.

You know that Diamond won't walk through the door to get you out of your room so you left you bed and walked to see what the fuss was about. Looking around the main room you see your team, their family, and at the center of the group was the princess of friendship reading the newspaper out loud for all to hear.

"At 5:00AM, one of the local workers found Iron Will (the minotaur in charge of the gym,) was found dead in his office. The officers soon covered the gym for anything that could leave any trace to who did the crime." Closing the newspaper the princess of friendship looked at her friends to see their expressions morph from concern to down right shocked. "Whatever happens, I'm sure the police will find out what happen." She tried to reassure her friends to not be afraid but you can still see that their fear is still evident on their faces.

You even see Terry's mom holding his hand a lot tighter as a way for her to know her son is right next to him. As a matter a fact you also see Applejack and Rarity becoming more and more protective of their family. It's only natural to be afraid of what might happen to family, your sure their thoughts are about making sure their family are safe. But your also sure that they want to believe her words that the people behind the crime will be found and face justice for what they done.

Fat chance that will happen, since the officer in chief is a changeling undercover and is now pulling the strings inside the police force, so any evidence that could be found will soon be lost and the crime of what happened last night will be buried and forgotten within time.

Its always nice when the law is on your side for once. Your also impressed with how fast the papers published this breaking news so fast, but you can just chalk that up by magic or this world spawning new things in break neck speed.

The entire group soon became depressed at how their little vacation is ruined by crime made you a bit sad for them. Even though you alone know that this is not the real world was not enough to make you feel bad for them, to them this is their world and their time to spend with friends and family. But then you realized they also have friends and family in the real world making you suppress your own depression and getting on with your life.

"If I may speak my piece, I have an idea." All the ponies and your team looked at you for what you were about to say changing their mood from depression to curiosity.

"Even past the dangers around this city we can still have a good time until we return home." You try to salvage whatever positive outlook they had so at least they can look back on this vacation with a smile then a frown. "There are still parts of the city that we did not go yet, I'm sure we can still have a fun day." You really can't think of any other place to do fun things, even though you explored the roofs at night you rarely stopped to look around to sight see.

Again the room was filled with silence either they are waiting for further meaning to what you were speaking or they are trying to think about anything fun to do to keep their minds preoccupied from the recent crimes.

You were trying to say something else before the pink haired one shoved her hand in her hair and pulled out a poster and then presented it to her friends.

"We can go here! The dj is very popular and her music is the best to dance to!" Her smiling visage gave the group a look of hopefulness for her positivity making you glad she took over in boosting morale.

"It does seem fun." Twilight used her magic to levitate the poster to her face to read the poster.

"We're in luck it opens around midnight and the drinks are have off." Twilight said.

"I'm not really sure that I would like that." Fluttershy mumbled.

"Yeah, I really don't like the idea of being out that late, especially if this club treats my brother." Applejack agreed to Fluttershy's comment.

"I'm also uncomfortable with the idea about going out tonight," Rarity used her magic to levitate the poster to her but when the poster faced her she quickly covered her son's eyes before he could see what the dj was wearing or more precisely not wearing. "Especially with how they treat dress code etiquette."

"I'm sure you all need to relax, you guys should go." You said to the group.

"Yeah, ya'll need to relax too." Jonah insisted.

"You all need to relax and enjoy today especially with how chaotic these past few days were." Mike said then removed his mother's hand away from his eyes.

"You can leave us here to know we are safe we'll be fine by ourselves." Terry gave his mother a pleading look to try and persuade her to agree with her friends to go, but it just made her more worried about if she did go.

"While you are all away we will just be here getting ready to leave the next day." You told them. "We had our time spending some where by ourselves, it only seems fair that yourselves." That was the flimsiest excuse you made up, but then again you really don't care if they want to stay indoors or out since the mission is accomplished.

"Come on! I haven't been to a good club in a while and you heard him, they'll be fine." Pinkie begged to go leading to countless pleas and hopping around to get her point made.

"For crying out loud we get it! Let's just go we only have one night so lets go!" Rainbow was the first to agree.

"I sure hope this will be worth it." Applejack also followed suit.

"I do have some cloths that I wanted to wear." Rarity was the final nail in the coffin as the rest of the group agreed making Pinkie jump higher and higher you were sure she might hit the ceiling.

"Then its agreed, we leave them here and we enjoy the rest of the day." Twilight said getting a few nods of agreement though you can still see that some was still apprehensive about the decision.

"Does that mean we can go too?" The young mare with the red bow tie asked with the other two also nodding their heads agreeing with her.

"No!" And just like that Rarity, Fluttershy, and Applejack replied at the same time that made the three young mares to look down at their feet and sulked at their immediate answer.

"Applebloom, watch over your brother." Applejack told her little sister.

"Sweetie, be sure to look after your nephew when I'm gone." Rarity told her while already adding a different shade of eye liner.

"Please look after my son, Scootaloo. I'll be sure to pay you back like I always for babysitting him." Fluttershy said while pushing her son towards her. You can also see Terry blush from embarrassment for having everyone hear that he still needs babysitting even though he's not a child anymore. Seeing as the orange pegasus blush from embarrassment also from having everyone hear that she looks after a teenager close to her age made it even more hilarious that it almost made you forget that you might need to look after your master.

From the nasty sneer she was giving you she also cam to the same conclusion.

"I'm going out and if you think you will look after me you have another thing coming, human." Diamond said through gritted teeth.

Honestly, you would let her doing anything that is life threatening to her, but her father would be sad and he is he only pony you respected that you would begrudgingly take care of his daughter in his absence.

"We wouldn't want your father to know you have been drinking while your on this trip , ma'am."

"Since when do I listen to someone like you?" Her voice was becoming more apparent that she was about to start her little tantrum.

You considered to let her get brick faced until both of you stopped your staring contest when both of you were lifted in the air by the princess of friendship with a strained smile on her face probably trying to conceal her annoyance.

You hated to be lifted by magic, especially when some unicorn are strong enough to use magic to carry you. The way your limbs shaking from the absence of the ground made you feel helpless... and you especially hate it when you feel helpless.

"Let's not be to hasty now," Twilight used her magic to give you and Tiara more space between you and her and dispelled her levitation causing both of you to land on the ground. The only difference of landings was that Tiara landed on her rump while you landed face first due to your constant flailing in the air. Lifting your head up you were able to see Diamond laugh at your failure but was soon quiet when the alicorn appeared in front of her.

"We're grateful for your father for the invite, I really am, but I'm sure your father would agree that you need to stay here." The lavender pony raised her head to look at the clock next to the reception table to check the time. "It's still morning, so how about we all go out and enjoy the rest of the day before deciding when to go to this club, agreed?"

The entire group all agreed to that suggestion and soon quickly dispersed to go to their separate rooms to start the day on the right foot before you and diamond were the only ones in the main room.

You stared at her and she stared at you. For a few minutes the both of you made a silent agreement to not get in each others way, got back up[ from the floor, and walked your separate days.

After that became a blur of colors as you all enjoyed you day of just sight seeing, eating out, and also some extra shopping (much to your dismay since you carried Diamond's new cloths) before you and the rest of the younger teens stayed behind when the sun finally set making all the grown ups left to party the night away before going back home.

You really can't complain you needed the rest and relaxation so does your team, you were glad that this mission was over and are happy to come back home. Which now leads to today, your well rested, your mission complete, and also safe and sound in your home. You told your master what happened yesterday (cutting out the parts where you were responsible for most of the trouble) and closed your mouth to hear his reply to what he has to say.

"I'm just glad that all of this is behind you both, now that your home we can all prepare for what's about to happen to our town."

You stared at him for a few seconds before you asked him what he meant.

"While you were away, the town will be pre-paring a special party for a very savvy pony, and will also be having our own fashionable pony, Rarity, to show their new designs to Ponyville, isn't that exiting!?"

You honestly can't grasp any form of excitement about fashion, but your sure Mike is over the moon including his mother.

"Is the town already getting ready for his arrival?" You asked while getting the rest of the nags inside.

"Actually, news has already spread that he is already here," You stopped you actions to look back at your master to continue. "He's staying at one of our most luxurious hotels, he arrive just last night before you arrived." He explained.

You pondered if maybe you want to get with Mike to see how he's handling the news, but maybe not to soon since you need to do all the unpacking since you damn well that Diamond won't even lift a finger to do anything if she knows your here to do all the work. With how the sun is still up and how you need to do house chores you'll probably leave the house when everyone is asleep with that in mind you take a deep breath and exhaled out to prepared to start the day off with physical labor.

[Night time]

And that is the last thing on the to-do list, you said to yourself while putting the rest of the laundry off of the clothes rack and walked back inside of the house. For the entire day you have been catching up on some domestic work around the house and so far you already finished all of them in one day. It kind of disturbs you that your supposed to be a full time trained assassin, but at the same time your a butler to a household of rich ponies, the irony is not lost to you but for some reason you get some comfort in doing this kind of work. Makes you feel normal, a form of peaceful days that makes you feel that this is your real vacation of not doing any assassin works.

You also know that you should start getting ready for meeting Mike at his house so you quickly folded all the laundry in to neat folds and set them aside in your room for later. You went to your closet to pull out a simple dark denim jeans and black hoodie that should go well with how dark it is out side. You thought about wearing your assassin gear, but that's just overkill and you plan to just visit Mike and not start any fights if possible.

Looking outside of your room you looked both side of the dark, empty hallway before you closed your door and headed out your window. Climbing the top of the roof you see the night lights of the town including some ponies enjoying the night life makes it easier to blend in the crowds. You put your hoodie over your head to make your face obscure from view and getting a running start you jumped of the roof and landed in a pile of leaves you raked up this afternoon and with the sound of rustling leaves scattering from your landing you got back up and began running to Mike's home.

You honestly prefer the night life in this town, not many ponies come out at night, the guards are lax, and with so little lighting you can safely have more hiding spots. In fact with so little eyes and security you made to Mike home more quickly then you thought you would be. The house itself is quite unique with the design being an actual looking carousal! Seriously, you know that he and his mother I eccentric, but this is ridiculous.

Looking around the house you see a window half open making it easier for you to enter without having to make an effort to pick any lock. As you quietly enter through the window you can only shake your head at how unsecure most ponies are in this place can be without having any thoughts about if they will ever get robbed, but before you can think of any other negative thoughts about their security you felt a kiss of a cold barrel at the back of your head making you retract your thought of their security.

"Turn around slowly." The add emphasis on the demand the holder of the gun cocked the hammer back to show their ready to fire... and ready to take a life.

At the moment you would have taken the gun and taken the person down, but since you know this person you just turned your head and was about to greet him you soon turned pale white at what you were seeing. In front of you was some undead human with it's skin melting off his face with how dim the moonlight is coming from the outside just made it all the more creepy.

"Oh My GO-MPHGH!!!" You were silenced by a hand that smelled like vanilla while the hand that was holing the gun was set aside on a nearby kitchen table.

"Do not scream my mother is having beauty sleep." He said in a hushed tone.

You stopped your screaming once you registered who your are talking to and immediately looked at him with uninterested eyes for giving you a sad excuse like that.

Mike gave a disheveled sigh before nodding his head to follow him. "My mother has been on the walls working along side one of the most fashion savvy pony, so I would like if you would not scream at this time of night."

You were about to ask him why he is wearing such a thing on his face before you started to get a good look around the place. What Mike said about his mother overworking was an understatement the entire place was like a clothes bomb had just exploded and scattered all of the place!

Your eyes adjusted enough in this dimly lit house to see clothes scattered everywhere from the floor to the furniture each piece more exotic then the last. There seems to be also large clutters of paper with design plans for clothing ranging from male to female dresses and suits with even more covering the walls and some on the windows showing how much the Rarity puts her mind to something.

"She really must want to make a good impression on this new friend of hers."

"Hoity toity first met my mother when she wanted to make dresses for her friends, though the dresses she made was actually her friends design it caused some minor misunderstanding, but luckily my mother made the dresses on her design and then when he saw them they soon became fast friends." Mike explained.

"Well, whatever those two are planning it must be huge since most of the town is gossiping around it."

"Indeed, someone as fabulous as him can make any place swarm with gossip, especially with how many ponies he brought with him." With that said you looked back at him with surprise of what you heard.

"Guests? What Guests?"

"Well, when I was taking some fabric to bring tp mother I saw a few guards wearing very sleek armor outside."

"What type of armor are they? Armor from princess Celestia or Luna?" To have armored personnel guard a pony good at fashion seems a bit far fetched, so whatever they want with him must be important for the assassins to use too.

"Actually, neither to be honest." Mike told you before speaking again. "They wore armor, but none of the common armor most guards wear."

Your attention was now dead set to know what's happening to this town with this new development. "Do you have any details about the armor?"

Taking a moment to remember, Mike snapped his fingers to show he remembers how they look. "The armor was vastly more different then the armor most guards wear. Instead of the usual full plated armor most day and night guards wear these guards had smaller and rounder pieces of metal tied together to form a bigger piece." Mike paused and tried harder to remember more. "The armor is exotic and from e=the looks of it they are far more maneuverable then any armor the guards wear."

You nodded at his information and started to think in your head about what all this means, if this armor was only being worn by his guards then that means that he either bought it from a far of country or he made that himself. Thinking about that made you chuckle a pony that is all about fashion able to make armor was a bit funny in your head imagining him in a forge trying to make armor at the same time trying not to get dirty.

With all this information you got you can only wait when the next mission will start for you and your team to get back in action. Looking at the clock on the kitchen wall you saw that you have been here for at least an hour talking to Mike and realizing you have what you needed to say to him.

"Thanks for the info, Mike." You said while you turned to face him only to see Mike at the sink washing away the junk off his face to show his flawless skin to you.

"Well, do I not look like I have no wrinkles?" He said while wiping off the water with a clean rag he pulled out from the kitchen drawer.

"Do you always have to make sure you look your best, even though no one else is around?" You asked him

"Well your here." He retorted.

For every time you remember Mike always made sure to look his best even when it comes to assassination, so while he was wiping away all the water from his face you asked him about his beauty obsession.

"Why do you care? Looks are a bit a dozen and your mostly covered by your hood when we assassinate a target so why care?"

After you asked him he immediately stopped using the rag, looked at you with a surprised look, and his face soon turned neutral making you think you stepped on something you shouldn't have.

"Sorry," You apologized. "If you don't want to tell me you don't need to."

"No, no, it's rude to not respond to a question." Mike neatly folded the rag, placed it back from the drawer, and set his even gaze towards you to give you his full attention.

"Unlike Jonah and Terry I never knew my parents or even the outside." Mike turned his gaze to the window showing the night sky and continued to speak. "I worked in the mines when I was a kid including other young ones, some not even human."

Diamond dogs, you know that they tend to kidnap other to work in their mines, but you never expected Mike to be one of them. You wanted to ask him more questions, but stayed silent when Mike started to speak again.

"For so long I mined many gems for the Diamond Dogs I came to a realization that I will die in those mines be it from the dangers of the mines or from the abuse of the cruel masters." Recalling those bad memories started to give mike face lines on his perfect face showing you why he wanted to know if he looks fine. Because if he needed another person to tell he's fine even though he knows he isn't.

Almost sensing your pity towards him his flawed face soon returned back to it's flawless self and spoke in a more upbeat tone.

"When me and a few young kids were about to mine a new vein on the caves I heard shouting coming from the main area where most of the diamond dogs were hold up in. Since I was one leading them I told them to wait till I return thinking that on of the other slaves were trying to escape, so I don't want them to see what the Diamond dogs to slaves trying to leave." Taking a steading breath he spoke again though you can see his hands gripping his forearms a little more tighter.

"What I saw instead was the Diamond dogs being arrested by the Canterlot guard. They freed all the slaves, but like always they still kept the humans in a separate group to be used as worker at the castle. One of the guards spotted me and tried to take me with the rest of the humans. I was still a kid so was scared of what might happen to me if I got captured, I ran away and tried to warn the other but by the time I found them they were already taken by the guards." Taking another deep breath he again tried to speak in an even tone.

"They weren't human's but I still considered them friends and tried to free them, well after a few punches and kicks from the guards thinking I was trying to attack them I was dragged back to where everyone else was. All of the slaves and the Diamond Dogs were already gone from the cave and in their place stood six ponies, you can already tell who they were."

The element. Of course, which means only one thing.

"I didn't know who they were, but the one that caught my was the most beautiful mare I ever seen from her pristine main to her flawless coat she was pony that out of place in that dark, dirty cave. The guards were escorting the rest of the kids but I was in pain from the beating the gave me earlier so I was falling behind. One of the guards was about to strike me when she was stopped by soon to be mother. When she stopped the guard she looked at me with her sapphire eyes, kneeled down to look at me, and soon cleaned the blood and dirt from my face. one thing led to another and, well, you know the rest."

"I can't comprehend how hard it must have been for you."

"My mother told me, that I can always look my best and I no longer have to wallow in filth for the rest of my life."

"That explains why you always make sure you look good anywhere and everywhere." You said to him.

"I know it may look annoying, but I make sure that always look my best just like my mother who I deeply respect for her generosity towards me."

"You don't to say anything more, Mike." You put both your hand and patted his shoulders.

"I'm glad you have your freedom, sort of," He nods his head to know what you mean. "I just want to be sure that it won't be a problem when things start to hit the fan."

"Don't worry, like my looks I always make sure my shots are precise."

"Good, I think I had enough of your time good talking to you, Mike."

"Of course, and if you happen to visit again Let's share a cup of coffee." Mike said before walking back to his room leaving you to leave where you entered. Looking back at the clock you see that you only have a few hours to sleep before the sun rises, as you left the house you make sure that the window was properly secured you arrived back to your house to get some rest before the next day begins.

[THE NEXT DAY]

"Hey, my dad needs these moved to the upstairs attic, and while your at it make sure that to organize when you up there." Diamond told you while shoving a box to your chest filled with neatly placed silverware for guests.

You nodded at her order and proceeded to put away the box when you saw a small pile of letters on the table near the front door. Turning around you spotted Diamond's back slowly out of your view signaling you are now alone making you put down the box and walking to the pile of letters.

The letters on the table made you assume that these were here when you and Diamond was gone from the house meaning that maybe there might be a chance a letter is here for you. Rummaging through the small pile you found a letter unlike the rest of them making you hide the letter in your pocket and to do your daily chores.

As soon as you reached the attic you placed the box in the corner where the rest of the kitchen appliances are put away, pulled the letter out of your pocket, and read what your next orders will be.

For a long period of silence you read the letter about who your next target will be and when you eyes spotted who the target's name is you eyes shot wide open from who will be dead by your hands. Folding the letter and shoving it in your pocket you realized that this target will need a more detailed plan to complete the job and you know who can help you smooth out the edges of said plan.

"Hey, you better start cleaning the attic before I go up there!"

Just as soon as your finished your chores.

Author's Note

Hello, and also sorry for the long delay. I wanted this chapter to have more background time since i felt the background of Terry was short in my opinion. Hope you like this chapter and comment on how you feel about it.

Like always this is brotherhoof12 saying, "Have a happy late easter ya'll."