Chains

"Alright. We're here." Kraurion declares. The elevator moving down lead us to a comfy room with bright, inviting lights, a red couch and several monitors and blackboards showing data of missions and people, groups and targets.

"To sum us up, we're a group of people who'd do almost anything if the price is right and if we're fine with the motives of our client. Usually this involves getting a little mud'n'blood on your hooves. Currently we don't really take any requests as we're trying to stop that monocle wearing arrogant prick of a colt."

"I see." We go over to the couch and sit down. A green maned unicorn turned around sitting in front of one of the monitors. "Which, in my opinion, is a stupid idea as we're not getting a single buck out of this!"

"Oh yeah, that's one of the members who didn't join that idiot." Kraurion mutters in a slightly annoyed way.

"The name's Crint and you're another mouth to feed, aren't you? Just what we need." He turns back to the monitor and focuses his magic on the computer infront of him.

"Good day to you aswell, I guess." I turn to Kraurion who whispers:

"He' a little worried about the financial situation we're in, so..."

"Don't worry, I work at Sweet Apple Acres and that's more than enough to feed myself." I interrupt Kraurion with a slight grin in my face.

"He stops hitting the buttons infront of his monitor with his magic for a few seconds, proceeds to stand up, goes to the elevator without making eyecontact with me or Kraurion and leaves while saying:

"Good on you. I'll go catch some air."  After that he goes up.

"Uhm...Is something wrong with my workplace? Is it too muddy for him?"

Kraurion looks at me with wide opened eyes. "I...Didn't know that." His face clearly tells he's worried but he goes over to a fake smile: "Well, that's good for us, atleast we don't need to carry you through this!"

He laughs out loud and whole heartedly.

"Yeah...Great, I know."

He goes over to a crate filled with notes as he tries to put them away while blocking my field of view.

One of the notes had detailled information about Sweet Apple Acres on it which were crossed out.

"Ok, since I want to help you I need you to trust me." Kraurion says while putting it away quickly.

"Why?"

"Well, if we're to work together we-"

"Not that. Why are you planning an attack on Sweet Apple Acres?" I yell while standing up

"Listen, it's compli-"

"If you try to harm any of the ponies living there I will make sure that you will never be able to stand or even think again, so you better think of a good reason right now and stand for having assault plans on this place and you better think of them fast and stand your ground truthfully! Otherwise-"

"Listen for a freaking second already!" Kraurion yells as he stomps his hoof on the ground, making the whole place shake a little.

He then deeply breathes in and out.

"Sit down. I'll explain."

We sit down again.

"Ok. First of all, Crint worked there once. He was just a part time worker, just like you and he was together with Applejack, who you probably know."

"Was?"

"Well, something went wrong and they broke up. Shortly after that, we got an unknown client which told us to 'lift the secrets of Sweet Apple Acres'. I still have no idea what that means, I only know that Crint was more eager about this than anything else. He never told me why they broke up and what secrets were meant or who the client was." Kraurion tells me with a crestfallen expression.

"But why was it crossed out?"

"Well...After being sleep deprived by thinking about it, my sister had a talk with him and told him that it was ok to hate and it was ok to be mad at somepony for doing something but that he should not hang on to his grief forever. Something like that, and thus he took a pencil, crossed out the plans and threw them in this crate where we keep those."

"...I might have to apologize to him."

"No, no. Don't. If anything he'll apologize to you." Kraurion says with worry in his face.

"Why is that so?"

"I can relate to him - he probably thinks he almost deprived you of your workplace and mayby someponies you got to like since he almost did whatever to them."

"So...What else should we do?"

"Let him be for a while. We two need to think of a way to locate Braek and how we can stop him. That needs to be done fast as his power grows by the minute."

"Kraurion?" I ask with a worried expression.

"Hm?"

"Did you recieve this magical majigger which your sister studied on?"

"I did. I was one of the first ponies she tried it on. I told you she tested this on ponies whom she lured in by saying her grandma needed that, right? Well, before she gave that buff to everyone of the Boomerang Shade Batallion. Why do you ask?"

"Well, then we might stand a chance, but realistically..."

Kraurion stands on his rear legs, points to the surface and yells:

"Kick reason to the curb and aim for the impossible! That's how we roll and that's how we will keep rolling! We can do this, together!"

"I sure hope we do."