Flutterbat lays a briefcase bearing her cutie mark down on a wooden crate. She flips the clips which hold the briefcase shut and opens it to reveal her disassembled signature sniper rifle. Looking out of the nearby window she can see the heavily fortified government snow fortress which is situated just outside the Crystal Empire military zone. Flutterbat opens another, smaller case which holds a screen and dial pad. After dialling a number she begins to assemble her sniper rifle while pulling up a chair to sit down on. Several seconds pass before a changeling answers the call.

"Lady Flutterbat, it's been a while. What brings you to call me so suddenly given how we left off?" The changeling asks, raising an eyebrow.

"I would like you to come back and help the other three do a reconnaissance mission in Manehatten. Would you come back for them?" Flutterbat asks as she slides some components into place.

"Do you expect something bad to happen?" The changeling asks, folding his arms.

"I always expect the worst... However, I fear this time at this stage. None of us are without roles to play, Nigel. After what I'm about to do, this might be the last time we talk... I know in the past I've been the biggest bitch to you, the others and most of those around me. Then I met Erlöser and everything changed... I tried to change, to be better for him. I guess I didn't do so well as I just pushed him into the arena and made him fight. I forced him to be with me so I could retain some sense of sanity." Flutterbat adds her scope and ammo mag to the sniper rifle.

"You sound like a mare about to go to her death... You promised you would never attempt that hit without us, that it was too dangerous for one pony to take on alone. My lady you swore-" Nigel is cut off by Flutterbat.

"I know what I promised and I'm afraid I cannot keep it, we are losing this war and I'm left with no other choice. Go to Manehatten, aid your brothers... Maybe in another life we will meet again and I wont be such a bitch. Goodbye Nigel..." Flutterbat hangs up on Nigel.

Sighing deeply Flutterbat begins to slowly strip and lay her clothes onto the nearby crate before opening up a bag and laying out the components for a dull yellow Gothic styled dress that has black trim. Sitting down naked on the chair Flutterbat pulls up recording software on the small case before leaning back in the chair and taking a deep breath, she then sets it to record.

"Erlöser... By now you'll notice I'm not around the shop or at the arena. I must also apologise for my naked presence, but I wanted to see you off as myself..." Flutterbat morphs her form back into that of the normal Fluttershy. "I guess you never really got to know the mare beneath the bat... My name is Fluttershy and I used to live in Ponyville before the massacre. Moving to Canterlot I became the head of the changelings you met before who left Queen Chrysalis' army. I couldn't tell you when and where I became Flutterbat, but I know the night I met you I regained a slither of the mare I used to be. I'm just sorry I fucked up so badly... Pushing you over and over again into that forsaken arena. Even now I wish I could pack up and come home to wait for you, maybe hope that I could spend more time with you and make things right." Fluttershy begins as she starts to slide on her tights. "I'm not coming home though... I'm going to assassinate an absolute bastard who deserves nothing more then a blood bullet between the eyes. I don't want you to cry for me, nor do I want you to mourn for me. Just live your life and don't make the same mistakes I did, I wish you luck... You can consider this my official notice, you're dumped Erlöser. I loved you a lot... Farewell, my savoir." Fluttershy ends her recording and sends it to Erlöser's email address before shutting off and closing the case.

Fluttershy sighs deeply as she stands up and slides her dress over her head before zipping up the back and adjusting it so it's comfortable. She then moves to her sniper rifle and completes its assembly. Fluttershy flips out a pocket knife and cuts her upper arm to attach a string of animated blood to the chamber of her bolt action mechanism. With her free hand she gets her phone out of her pocket and takes a picture of herself as Fluttershy in all her gear and outfit. After sending the picture to Erlöser she places her phone down and morphs back into Flutterbat before shooting her phone. Once she ensures the Sim card is destroyed Flutterbat walks over to the window and looks out at the snow fortress one last time before taking a run up and bursting out of the window. As she descends down the watchtower she was in, Flutterbat spreads her wings and begins to fly towards the fortress. As if on cue a massive snow storm rolls in covering her infiltration.

Erlöser sits down against a collapsed pillar, panting heavily as he looks up at Scorpia who is looking at the carving wall.

"So... I gather you remember everything now? You seem awfully attracted to that carving wall." Erlöser asks as he slows down his breathing.

"It all came back fairly quickly once Sinclair made right one of his wrongs. It's why I had sat down to think before we started your training." Scorpia replies, turning away from the carving.

"What did you think about?" Erlöser asks, wiping his forehead.

"Still thinking. Haven't stopped. Trying to figure out how I feel about everything..." Scorpia replies.

"That's the most vague answer anypony has ever given me... Care to give any insight into that mind of yours, brother? Granted most of you has been... 'In me', for about twelve years now... That damn science guy and his lame ass blood stringy things... That shit hurt, I don't know about you..." Erlöser states. flinching as he remembers the pain of the event... Twice.

"I'm a few millennia old, and I'm not speaking of the dragon... I'm not speaking of Zerstörung. I'm speaking of Scorpia. Who I am now. Who I became. I was sent back to a time before Equestria was Equestria. I was raised by an entirely different mare. I watched my apparent mother and aunt grow from a young filly to a fine mare. I lived alongside a bloodline that came to an end before my eyes, and I was unable to do a thing to stop it. I watched chaos unravel. I had those I love turn on me. I've seen Luna in her darkest time. Recently, I fell in love. Now, I'm here. My 'true' home. I remember those seven short years. I remember our mother. I remember our aunt." Scorpia pauses and walks back over to the carving, placing his hand on it. "I remember our father. I remember playing with my baby brother. I remember how nice Ivory was back then. I remember my original life. I remember what sent me back so far... it's the blurriest part... but I do at least remember the face of that changeling. So, yeah, I'm trying to figure out how I feel about everything..." Scorpia explains, turning back to Erlöser and sighing deeply.

"I vaguely remember the four years I spent with my real family... I envy you in a sense, you can remember our father much more clearly than I can. You can remember what Hémolyse was like before... Well, whatever she did to be how she is now. You can actually remember being cared for by our mother... I have hazy parts of that at best. The only clear memories I have of my foalhood is that forsaken orphanage I went to after the incident which saw you transported away and our family essentially broken... I fucking hated that place..." Erlöser sighs, throwing a small piece of broken off pillar at the other side of the room with force making a loud noise as it impacts.

"I can't imagine. I was taken in by another mare in my other home. She's the one who helped me learn how to use my abilities... though she really didn't want to. The very first time I used it frightened her extremely, and not for the reason you might think. She was just fearful for me... I had passed out from blood loss that night... Left a small scar on the left side of her neck... never got over that." Scorpia states.

"Least you had it fairly good... I wanted to bitch slap half the foals in my orphanage... Come to think of it, I might have. Still, I'm sure you have a plethora of tales you could tell. My life if pretty boring in comparison, up until I met Rainbow... Some big ass stallion had decided he was going to kill me and have me for dinner. She comes in and slices off the dudes arm with her hand, after which she plunged up to half her arm into his stomach and ripped out his freaking heart." Erlöser recites the event.

"What a 'great' introduction to your new life... At least your introduction wasn't the near death of your mother." Scorpia replies.

"Touché, However, Rainbow was very cool and she was quite hot... Although she was going to kill me, that is before she stuck her thumb in my mouth to open it. I then tasted her blood and da da da da out pops your blood dragon ass from my back. That hurt..." Erlöser states, looking annoyed at Scorpia.

"Keep in mind that that had nothing to do with me... that was all Sinclair..." Scorpia defends.

"Still hurt... Speaking of, are we going to talk about what happened while you were in my head?" Erlöser folds his arms.

"...When are we talking about here?" Scorpia asks.

"All the time you were in my head... I know you remember..." Erlöser states, narrowing his eyes.

"Well... Which specific time do you want to talk about? You're giving me a very broad range of conversation." Scorpia folds his arms.

"Okay... Let's start with the alleyway when you first talked to me since your dragon awoke inside me." Erlöser stands up to stretch.

"When we tore apart another dragon and a powerful unicorn to save Rainbow's life..? What about it?" Scorpia asks, raising an eyebrow.

"Spike and Sunset Shimmer, as I... recently found out. Why did you rip him in half and did you have to maul her? I'm grateful and happy we saved Rainbow, but..." Erlöser trails off after saying Rainbow's name.

"You allowed the soul of the dragon of destruction to take over your body. I fight very differently. You're lucky that more damage wasn't dealt." Scorpia unfolds his arms.

"I suppose... I didn't know either of them so... Guess I can thank you in a more physical sense now. What about the first time in the arena? When I met Flutterbat for the first time." Erlöser asks.

"If it weren't for the fact that she was plenty stronger than you, I'd ask why you stuck as long as you did. If you're asking why I helped you fight there... for one... you weren't the correct body and had you died, who's telling if Zerstörung would have made it back to me. Aside from that... well... the memories got stuck with the dragon. It knew you as the baby brother." Scorpia replies.

"True enough... What do you mean 'stuck as long as you did?'" Erlöser asks sitting on the fallen pillar behind him.

"The relationship between you and Flutters... It sure as Tartarus wasn't a healthy one. It was pretty one-sided." Scorpia states, leaning against the wall.

"Well... I liked her..." Erlöser weakly replies.

"Keep telling yourself that. She isn't the one you like... she never was. We both know that to be true." Scorpia comments.

"I... I can't argue with that when you have been inside my head... Not that you'd believe my bullshit anyway. Who is it you know I like then?" Erlöser asks, looking at Scorpia with a slight head tilt.

"A mare who's currently got her eyes glued to another. I believe that's mostly your fault. Or, at least, it seems to be how she feels about it." Scorpia remarks.

"Don't you think I know that? It's bad enough I was too weak to do jack shit about my current unhappy 'relationship', but I also went and fucking alienated said mare we are talking about who nearly punched me, had said punch blocked by you... Then not only a day later gets with another mare, her fucking ex no less! I can only think to add it to the list of exceptional fuck ups I seem to be gathering lately..." Erlöser states as he digs his fingers into the pillar, cracking it underneath his hand.

Scorpia takes a few steps forward in order to stand only a couple meters away before replying, "Not like you made much of an effort to leave dear Flutters' side and pursue your love interest. Nor did you even make an effort to see her and have the occasional conversation. You just stayed put, like a good little pet."

Erlöser suddenly slams his fist into Scorpia's face with unforeseen force and frustration making him fly into, and shatter, the pillar opposite to Erlöser.

"Fuck you and fuck Flutterbat!" Erlöser yells with a louder, deeper voice than normal as he pushes off of the pillar into a standing position.

Scorpia picks himself up, grabs a nearby piece of rubble and uses it to open a gash in his hand before grinning. "That's much better, little brother."

Flutterbat moves down the hallway letting out a torrent of cute little sneezes before she stops at a corner to check past it when she finally stops sneezing.

"What the fuck was that? Felt like somepony was having a bitch fest..." Flutterbat shakes her head and peeks around the corner.

Around the corner she can see two Crystal Empire guard ponies a fair distance from each other. With swift unrestricted movement, Flutterbat sprints from her position stabbing the first guard in the neck with a wrist blood blade from under her sleeve. She then takes the guards sword and throws it at the second guard hitting him in the chest as he turns to face her. Moving past them both she rolls behind a balcony pillar before standing up. Looking down past the balcony she can see an orange stallion talking to a higher ranked white stallion.

"I'm to understand that Princess Celestia let things get so bad? Ugh... if only we did what we did at Ponyville this infestation in Canterlot would have never gotten this bad." The white stallion complains.

The orange stallion has a bright orange coat with a sapphire mane and tail that has lighter sapphire streaks within. His eyes are a light blue and he wears gold guard armour.

"Wouldn't it cause more trouble that way, Prince Blueblood, sir?" The stallion asks.

The stallion identified as Prince Blueblood has a pure white coat, a blonde mane and tail with arctic blue eyes.

"Flash Sentry, you fail to see the bigger picture. It won't if we rat them all out... Maybe I should file another false report, seemed to do the trick with Ponyville." Prince Blueblood states with a sigh.

Flutterbat sets up her sniper rifle and aims for Prince Blueblood's head while he talks to Flash Sentry. As she slowly squeezes the trigger Prince Blueblood turns and looks directly up at her before moving Flash Sentry into the path of her bullet upon her pulling the trigger. By this time Prince Blueblood has already moved from Flash Sentry, whom has been hit in the head with the sniper blood bullet. Frustrated, Flutterbat fires five more blood bullets into Flash Sentry to make sure he is dead, but not before Prince Blueblood jumps up onto the walkway with her standing merely inches away.

"Ah, I believe you are the Kansen known as Lady Flutterbat. Hmm I somewhat expected more from one of the most infamous ones..." Prince Blueblood states with a click of his tongue.

Flutterbat grits her teeth as she fires another bullet at Prince Blueblood, but is dodged as he sprints towards her drawing his rapier. Prince Blueblood takes many slash attempts at Flutterbat, but they are all blocked using her sniper rifle. Before long she is forced onto the ground floor where she shot and killed Flash Sentry. Prince Blueblood follows her down to the ground floor and sprints towards her again, making sure she can't get a clear shot off with her sniper rifle using his quick and precise fencing training.

"You don't seem to be preforming too well, 'My Lady'." Prince Blueblood taunts Flutterbat who grits her teeth.

Flutterbat continues trying to land a shot on Prince Blueblood, but fails at every try as he gives her no inch of space to work with. Tired of this cat and mouse game, Prince Blueblood closes in and runs his rapier multiple times through Flutterbat's stomach area and through her heart.

"Oh dear, it seems I slipped a little too much." Prince Blueblood smirks.

Falling to the floor Flutterbat finds herself unable to move as she watches Prince Blueblood clean her blood off his rapier before throwing the handkerchief he used onto her body.

"Such a pathetic use of Kansen life... Guess no fun will be had with a used up little Flutterwhore. I'll leave you to bleed out in peace next to... This equally useless pile of pony excrement." Prince Blueblood begins to walk away from the pair.

Flutterbat finds the last reserves of her strength to make one last blood bullet before moving her sniper rifle into place. Slowly losing her focus, Flutterbat manages to steady her aim at Prince Blueblood's head. With a final slow breath she pulls the trigger making the bullet fly straight to and through Prince Blueblood's head. He stops moving and slowly falls to his knees before falling fully onto the ground, lifeless.

"Eat shit and die you fucking uptight bastard..." Flutterbat lays back on her back and closes her eyes as she can feel her body slowly begin to go cold.

'Sorry I couldn't make it home... Erlöser.' Flutterbat surrenders herself to death and holds her sniper rifle to her body till the life fully drains from her.

Author's Note

Nest chapter finally done. Me and my co-author are very happy to be progressing on this fic at whatever pace we are able to. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and look forward to the next one. R.I.P Fluttershy.