An outsider in equestriaby SantaSamChaptersCorvo's pologue: A deal is made.The main sixLimits and new powersAnother player joins the gameCorvo's pologue: A deal is made.Dunwall was in mourning, the loss of the lord protector was a great tragedy to all of the empire. Empiress Emily kaldwhin had taken it the worst however, he had raised her ever since her mother was assassinated by Daud, the knife of dunwall, and the "royal" spy master. Ever since the guard came in and told her of his death she had been shocked, the man who had saved the entire empire from corruption and the rat plague had died, how was that possible? He had magic that others would only dream of, unless they too were marked and even then his magic had only gotten stronger on a level that even the great witch granny rags her self was in capable of possessing. And he had died from old age, Granny rags was ancient even before corvo was even born and she wasn't as magically powerful! But then again maybe it was a power only she possessed. The funeral was a dreary sight to say the least the sky seemed to even be crying for corvo as it rained. Corvos body was being buried next to Emily's mother, Jessamine kaldwhin, because she knew how they felt about each other and she believed it would have been what he would have wanted. After the nobles and friends of corvos had given their condolences and their farewells, Emily was left alone, tears and makeup running down her face, walking over to the plack which marked where corvos body was she place her childhood doll on the plack,"farewell corvo." Celestia wobberled around the room after trying, and failing to imprison a creature much more powerful then her which she had sensed around equestria, the creature in question had so much magical energy that it had talked the combined power of Discord, her sister and har self to even harm it,"did we get him," asked an exhausted Discord. "No I don't think we did," replied Celestia who had finally fallen on the floor, face first. Almost to tell her that she was correct a creature that resembled a human just with black eyes appeared in the room,"who do you think you are?! How dare any of you even try to imprison me, do none of you know who I am?"the new comer had the same massive amount of magical energy coming off of him then the creature,"you can all trust me that there will be consequences for this action!"and with those final words he disappeared and Celestia's vision faided to black. Corvo awoke to a purple mist enveloping him and and distant whispering, the whispers of a rune, getting up Corvo found that he was atop a floating platform with a staircase leading up to what looked like his room at dunwall tower, and the whispers were coming from there. Walking up the stair case he found a shrine to the outsider in the corner of his room which had random hole in the wall and objects floating in the air,"well I'll never pass up a free rune,"mumbaled corvo in his deep hoarse voice, age had not been pleasant for him his bone ached he had horrible cough that had made his voice ache and become very hoarse, he wasn't the worst he could have been but to him it was terrible. As his hand made contact with the rune a sound could be heard behind him it sounded like foot steps, turning around corvo already knew who it was the outsider, the God like being who had watched him save dunwall and given him the mark on his hand, the source of all his powers,"hello Corvo have you missed me?" Questioned the outsider, Corvo didn't reply,"come now, is that any way to treat the "man" who just saved your life? Shame on you corvo, and they call you lord," the outsider huffed. "What do you want outsider?" Corvo questioned the cosmic entity. "To make a deal," stated the outsider. "And what deal would that be, Outsider?" Questioned the human. "The deal is I want some other god like creatures dead and your going to kill them, Corvo," replied the Outsider,"as you should know you are the most powerful person I have ever marked." He explained," and if you choose to do this, I will let you see Emily again and let you pass on to the after life." Corvo thought it over, he didn't know what kind of "creatures" he would be facing and he was an old man he couldn't face a good like being,"in my condition I can't fight anything, Outsider, you'll have to find someone else," Corvo said hoping he could get out of the deal. "I can easily solve that, corvo," and with a snap of the Outsiders fingers Corvo was once again a young man, all of his aches and pains were gone and he felt full of energy, but now realised he didn't have away to get out besides refusing the offer. "What happens if I refuse, Outsider?" "You will stay here in the void for all eternity and be tortured all that time as well as you will be the reason why the void consumes the entire universe, which it is constantly trying to do, oh and of course be the reason why Emily will suffer a slow and painful death." Corvo was at a loss for words, he would do all of that if he didn't do this, what was he up against?! "So do we have a deal or not?" "What the hell am I up against, Outsider, if these creatures can cause so much damage to you, of all things! What makes you think I can do anything?!" Corvo was confused to why the Outsider had asked him do this, or why he even thought he could. "Because, Corvo, they won't expect you, but me instead and if I went to this realm i'd be going against one of the rules of my task," Corvo was confused,'the Outsider has a job?!' He thought to him self suprised," so I'll ask again, do we have a deal or not?"the Outsider asked the human, starting to get annoyed. "Well if its to save all of the people I care about, then yes we have a deal," stated Corvo. "Well then, time for the debreifing!" Corvo was confused at this a debreifing from the Outsider, he never gave anyone those about anyone," you will be facing two alicorns, named Celestia and Luna, and a draconequus, named Discord, all of which are magical creatures. Celestia and Luna both have magic based around what they represent, Celestia the sun and Luna the moon, Discord however is a spirit of chaos so be weary of him. Also this land has a great deal of magic in it so don't worry about mana, you'll be fine," as the Outsider said the last words he flicked his fingers and Corvo was gone. In the fields close to the everfree forest an explosion of purple fire and dark smoke erupted out of nowhere, leaving a crater with a strange sight inside, a human being was in the crater and scattered all around him were a metal mask, a crossbow, a gun, ammunition for the gun and crossbow and a heart with gears and wires inside as well as a new set of clothes. In a near by cottage a timmied mare opened her door, to find a giant crater right in front of her house ,"oh my!" The main sixFluttershy was happily feading her animal friends when a explosion scared the living daylights out of her and her animal friends, looking outside she saw smoke coming up from a massive crater in the ground,"oh my," she barly whispered to herself 'somepony could be hurt,"she thought to her self running over to the hole looking inside she saw a terrifying creature. It was six feet tall and was wearing clothes that looked like they were made of leather it also had claws like Spikes but they were rounded off at the end. Terrified she ran to the only pony she thought would know what it was, her friend Twilight Sparkle. Twilight was enjoying a nice cup of tea and reading a book when Fluttershy had ran into the tree turned library,"Fluttershy what are you doing here?"questioned twilight,"and what happened?"she now asked seeing the look of terror on Fluttershy face. "I saw a monster! And I don't know what it is and it scared me!" Fluttershy said, which might as well have been a snout for her. 'Wait a monster, and Fluttershy didn't know what it was' Twilight thought to her self,"what did you see, Fluttershy? What did it look like?"Twilight said whilst getting out of her chair. "I'll show you," Fluttershy said, back to her normal whisper. "So what do you think it is, Twilight?" Fluttershy asked the lavender unicorn. "I don't know, it kinda looks like a human from one of those old stories, but their only old mares tales nothing more," Twilight responded, it did look alot like a human. "A–a hu–hu–human!?" Stuttered a horrified fluttershy 'if this is a human then all her animal friends were in danger' she thought to herself, scarred for the lives of the animals in her cottage,"maybe we should get the other girls,"she suggested to Twilight. "Yeah, we should if this is a human then its probably dangerous" responded twilight, but as the pair walked away the man in the crater began to wake up. Corvos POV: I awoke to the smell of burning and a face full of dirt, after getting up I saw all of my belongings scattered around a ditch, which I was in. Seeing a new set of clothes I decided that I should put those on first and then my mask, after getting my new clothes on I picked up my mask, it was worn in so places and some of the silk on the inside had started to come off, putting it on I found out that all of its functions still worked. After putting my mask and clothes on I picked up my pistol and crossbow, along with the various types of ammo, after picking up my spring razors and electronic mines as well as my granades, I finally picked up the heart of a living thing, and asked a question,"where am I?" The heart responded by saying,"this place is different from Dunwall in may ways, for one never has a plague or war raveged this land and nor has traitory, but this land has had many villains and enemies," responded the heart in the voice of Emily's mother, Jessamine kaldwhin. Corvo now remembering the late egrew a little depressed over her memory, but quickly got over it, he had a job to do after all and remembering past events was not part of it. After blinking out of the hole he noticed that he was in a large field next to a over grown forest, using his dark vision he found out it had a much greater existence then the last time he had used it and he could see two glowing objects walking away from him, this was when he found that he could also hear peoples thoughts,'I really hope that wasn't a human, their so scary,' thought the one on the left, he also noticed that they weren't shaped like people but more like, ponies? Yes ponies,"so instead of people, this place has ponies. What the hell?" He said to himself. Turning dark vision off he didn't feel the usual lack of energy, which was strange, asking the heart why he didn't feel tired it responded by explaining that this land had a massive suply of magical energy within it, blinking over to a near by cottage he looked through a window to see what was inside, what he saw was odd, to him at least, in the cottage were hundreds of animals 'strange' he thought to himself but seeing no inntellegent life in the building he left it, to go to the town the two horses were heading to blinking he vanished and reappeared on a hill next to the two small horses, who were talking to each other. As well as his dark visions increased range his blinks had also been increased. Now realising where he was he quickly ducked behind a near by rock, the ponies were talking to each other,"so, Fluttershy, how are your animal friends doing?"asked the one on the right. "They're doing just fine, Twilight. How's spike?" Asked a much more timid voice from the yellow one, Corvo now noticed that the yellow one had wings and the lavander one had a horn,'a pegasus and unicorn, what's wrong with this place, and they can talk too!' thought a very confused Corvo. After a couple of minutes passed the two ponies left and Corvo was able to blink unnoticed, going in the general direction of the town he appeared right outside of its borders, the town it self was very colourful and old fashioned, none of them were made of wood or metal and most had hay or wood as a roof, realising that the town was full of ponies he decided to hide on a nearby wooden roof hide. Fluttershy and Twilight had been having an awkward conversation on they're way to ponyville, to get they're other friends, Twilight decided that they should split up to try and find their friends, Fluttershy went to find rainbow dash and pinkie whilst Twilight went to find Apple Jack and Rarity. Half an hour later Twilight was at the entrance to sweet Apple acres, walking through the entrance way Twilight saw granny smith rocking in her chair on the front porch, walking over to granny smith she said hello and asked if she knew where, Apple Jack, is," excuse me, granny smith, but have you seen Apple Jack around?" she asked th e much older mare. "Well howdy, Twilight. She's in ta Apple orchard over their," responded a chearful granny smith. "Thank you, granny," Twilight politely responded. Granny responded with a nod and then went back to rocking in her chair. Twilight walked over to the orchard granny smith had pointed to and looked for Apple Jack. After about ten minutes Twilight finally found the orange mare bucking an Apple tree,"hey, Twi, how's it goin?"asked a chearful Apple Jack. "Hey, AJ, Fluttershy and I think we found something odd, so we thought it would be a good idea to find all of you and see if it's dangerous or not," responded Twilight. "What did ya find, Twi? what is it?" Apple Jack asked, wanting to know what this thing was. "I'm not really sure, but it kinda looks like a human," Twilight answered the country pony's question. "A human, well then of course this things dangerous, we need to find the other girls now," Apple Jack said whilst running. "We need to get Rarity, Apple jack," Twilight called after her friend. When the two got to Rarity's house and explained the situation, they headed straight for Fluttershy's cottage,"are you sure it was a human, darling?"questioned Rarity. "I'm 99 percent sure, Rarity," she called back. "An' that be bad news for us ponies," Apple Jack added. "Oh Celestia," Rarity said to noone in particular. When they got to the cottage the three other mares were waiting there for them,"what took to so long," said an annoyed Rainbow Dash,"I had to wake up from a nap for this!" "We were getting Rarity, Dash," responded Apple Jack, "now, where is it?" "We don't know, AJ," called the blue mare. "What! That thing can kill the whole of ponyville if the legends are true, we're all bucked!" Yelled the worried mare," I gotta protect ma family,"said Apple Jack as she galloped to sweet Apple arches. Whilst all this was happening Corvo was exploring the town, looking for anything to tell him where his targets might be. Limits and new powersNothing. Nothing was in this little pony town well except, of course ponies. Corvo really just wanted a shrine or something he could use to contact the Outsider so he could learn where his targets were in this happy land of magic and rainbows. 'That pegasus was weird' he thought to himself. Currently he was in an attic of an old house that did not have hay as a roof, which surprisingly was a rarity for this town which made sneaking much harder that added with all the pegasi flying around up in the sky and roofs out of the question, but luckily for him there was a lot of alleys he could hide in. At this moment in time he was counting how much ammo he had for his weapons. 'Okay so I have 35 bullets, 15 explosive bullets, 35 crossbow bolts, 15 sleep darts and 15 explosive darts. Now onto gagets 4 grenades, 2 sticky grenades, 5 bottles of choke dust, 5 bottles of baffle dust and 8 spring razors. Now weapons, 1 folding blade, 1 pistol and lastly one crossbow.' After checking out the equipment he had, and putting it all back into his coat, Corvo decided to check out his new powers. Mist – a power that allows Corvo to turn into a faint black mist for as long as he wanted and would make him impossible to touch or hear but not invisible just much harder to see. The higher it is upgraded the less noticeable the mist is. Erosion – a power that allows Corvo to turn almost any solid to ash as well as living things but the this will take much longer because of the bodies natural regeneration over time, resulting in a painful death because the one it is being done to can't die intill their heart has been destroyed. Higher it is upgraded the faster it goes. Blink – a extremely fast sprint that is so fast it is much like teleporting. More upgrades will cause it to have longer range. Dark vision – this power allows someone to see through walls and another persons line of sight if upgraded it can also allow you to see objects of interest through a wall, if upgraded thurther its range will increase intill it reaches a maximum of 1km in all directions and if upgraded more allow someone to "hear" someone else's thoughts but only if the caster it focusses on the person they want to read the thoughts of. Stop time – allows the user to completely stop time and move but slightly slower then normal but if it is upgraded it can allow for someone to move as fast as they normally would without being spotted unless standing in front of someone intill the ability wears of which will last longer depending of how much it is upgraded then stopping at a maximum of 20 minutes for the user. Possession – an ability allowing the user to control another living creatures body upgrading allows the user to possess intelligent life more upgrading allows it for longer a draw back to this ability is that the users body goes into the others body meaning when it wears off and the user is in a crowd people will notice the user. Wind blast – allows the user to send a powerful blast of wind out of their hand that can send projectiles back to where they came from or just further or stunn other creatures and the more upgrading it done to it will make more powerful intill reaching its maximum strength at becoming a 100% lethal blast to human and anything smaller and somethings even larger and is able to send objects upto 60 feet. Devouring swarm – allows the user to summon a swarm of anything eating (alive or dead) rats out of thin air, it can be used to distract enemies or kill them. Higher the upgrade the larger and hungrier the swarm gets and luckily for the user the rats don't attack them. After about two hours of testing his new abilities he discovered that his new powers mist and erosion would be very useful in stealth operations such as getting in quietly and staying unnoticed by guards or civilians alike. Whilst Corvo was testing his new powers the mane six, two of which were trying to get Apple Jack to calm down, were looking for the magical assassin. "Okay girls spread out, Rainbow Dash you search for the human from the sky, Pinkie you search the town. Fluttershy and, Rarity go and try to get Applejack to calm down," Twilight ordered."And remember if you see it get the rest of us, that goes to you Dash," she warned her friends. Once all her friends had left she went back into her library to try and find a book on humans and their weaknesses, it is true she could always go speak with lyra but she didn't want that mare getting too close to the human. Pinkie was happily hopping down the street searching for the human, she wasn't afraid of it why would she be its not like it was as bad as the legends said they were because noone is so bad it would kill a pony right, maybe hurt one really bad but not kill and eat a pony ,"Ooooh I can throw him a 'welcome to Equestria, please don't eat us party' it would have cake and snacks and punch, and it would show everypony that human really aren't that bad and..." Pinkies thought process was interrupted by a strange purple glow coming from a near by alley and a very quiet whispering, heading into the alley she found an odd shrine thing. It had small purple lanterns around it and two large bits of purple silk that met above the main peice that was three legged table that had a large chunk of bone with a weird symbol on it. The whispers were coming from the bone and Pinkie for some reason felt drawn to it and was slowly walking to the stone, once she had it in her hooves she didn't want to put it back,"I think I'll keep this." She said to herself. Meanwhile Corvo was watching an orange mare, who for some unknown reason was barricading the windows on her house whilst what looked like her family were trying to find out why. "What the hay are you doing, Applejack?" Asked the large red stallion. "I'm protectin yall," this 'Applejack' called to the stallion. "What'cha mean, six?" Asked a small yellow filly. With a sigh the orange mare told her family that some of her friends, whose names were Twilight and Fluttershy, had found a human in a crater and left to find their other friends but when they got there the human was gone, but Corvo didn't care about that what he cared about was that he was now known 'well shit. This could complicate things for me, especially if their searching for me' he thought to him self. "But, Applejack humans are old myths, stories told to little kids to make them be good. Their not real," said her older brother,"did you even see it." "Well no, but Twi and Fluttershy told me what they saw, and I believe 'em" replied th smaller mare. As the two were having they're debate Corvo noticed a white unicorn with a purple mane and the same butter yellow pegasus running down the road to the house. When they got their the mares started to say that what Applejack was saying was true and eventually won the argument but then started to try and get the orange one to calm down and help them search for the "brutish" human, those words from little miss marshmallow. It took a while and for a rainbow maned mare to help the two but they eventually got her on the search and they all ran off down the road apart from "Rainbow Dash" who was looking at the barn Corvo was in suspicesly, after about a minute of her eying the barn she took the first couple steps towards the wooden structure he was in. Switching dark vision on he read the pony's mind 'okay, Dash don't be scared, its just a human' she thought to herself. Corvo then turned into his mist form and hid in a dark corner of the room to conceal himself In the darkness, a couple seconds later and the barn doors opened and the mare stepped in, searching for him in the darkness when she didn't find anything she decided to leave. 'That was a little too close'close' Another player joins the gameWhilst Corvo was searching ponyville for clues to his targets whereabouts a dark mist was falling towards Manehattan, the ponies in alleys and on roof tops stared at the mist in a mix of fear and awe, that was intill it smashed into an old abandoned building were awe disappeared. A man lay on the floor of an old and crumbling building, this man was clad in a reddish brown leather coat and had large leather gloves on his hands, his hair was put back and his face looked to be aging. As this man was sleeping the world started to slow down and a dark mist appeared in the air then another man with black eyes came out of the smoke and floated above the man by now time had completely stopped. "Wake up, Daud." The Outsider said. "Gurrgh" the man in the floor groaned looking up "what do you want?" The Outsider smirked "I have a job for you, Daud," the Outsider began,"what do you say to killing three gods for me." "Do I even have a choice in the matter?" Asked the ex-assassin. "Not at all," the Outsider replied,"and by the way your in a land full of multicoloured ponies, and Corvo's here." He said just before disappearing into the same black mist that brought him here. "What? What does he mean 'ponies'? And what does he mean Corvos here?" As Daud said this the door down stairs broke and he thought he heard a voice say. "Okay, guardsmen it landed in here, search the building, check everything. We don't know what this thing is, so be prepared. Understood?" Said what Daud guessed was a commanding officer of so kind. "Sir, yes, sir!" Multiple voices shouted, some of which sounded feminine. 'Well, looks like a good time to leave' Daud thought to himself as he blinked onto a neerby book case. Golden blade had been having a good day for the most part, he'd been able to go out with his family for lunch and was able to go see his friends in the trading district of the city. And then a giant black meteorite thing had to fall out the sky and crash into the old silver tooth mansion. The building had been here since the city was nothing more then a small town, which was about three hundred years ago and had been left vacant for about sixty to eighty years and no one in the city wanted to go in let alone renovate it, the reason for this was that is was supposedly haunted by the last generation of the silver tooth family, who had all died at the dinner table from being poisoned by a maid. A motive for the crime was never found so it was just seen as a brutal case of mass murder, twenty seven lives silenced in an instant. But right now ghosts were the least of his problems as he walked through the halls with the bane of his existence, Saber Fire. By no means was the kid a pony who he hated, he was just so annoying. "So, Golden how's your day been?" Asked Saber. "Good," was Golden Swords reply. "OK cool, so err... how're the kids? Doing alright in school?" "They're doing fine." Was the flat reply. That's when Saber stopped trying to make small talk and decided to shut the hell up, well it seemed like he decided to any way what really happened was that Saber was currently being strangled by a bipedal assassin. After hearing a thud from behind him Golden turned to see Saber lying on the floor next to a tall bipedal creature which was covered completely in clothes apart from its face which had a large scar running down the side of its face, as he was taking all this in it raised its arm and a green dart shot out and his whole world went black. Daud stood over the two unconscious horses in front of him, they looked like military horses the the only diffence being the one he'd choked out had wings. "What the fuck has the Outsider gotten me into?" Daud questioned himself. Luna was in a very strange place right now. The reason why she found it strange was because of how empty it was, aside from some ckuncks of canterlot dotted around its abyss, which seemed to go on forever. She was scared to say the least. "Where are we?!" Luna questioned the void around her, not expecting a response. So imagine her shock when she got one. "Well 'princess', your in my domain, the void." A distinctly masculine voice said, as the darkness around here condensed into a body. When the darkness finally finished making the body a tall bipedal creature floated above her, its black eyes piercing into her very being and a small but noticeable smirk on its face," and you have no power here." "What art thou?!" She asked, going into old Equestrian. "Well, fair maiden, I am but a humble creature, who only seeks to watch the lives of others who I deem entertaining," He said, bathing his words in sarcasm," but seriously, you interest me quite a bit." "What do you mean, whoever you are?" Luna questioned the eternity old being. This seemed to only make the creatures smirk a little bigger," well you see, luna I know about your little secret shall we say, and said secret has made you a very interesting pony, or should I say Nightmare. And my true name would kill you if you heard it, so just call me Outsider, everyone does." Luna's eyes widened a little as her little "secret" was revealed" how do you know about that, Outsider." "Well I watch everything so I know everyone's secrets." He said. "So what do you want to do with this new information?" She asked the strange being. "Well, all I want is to offer you a deal." The Outsider said with a smirk, "a deal that will make you the most powerful creature in the whole of Equs and have both your sister and Discord dead on the floor." Now this got Nightmares attention, she would finally get to be the queen she deserved to be and her idiotic sister and that idiot Discord would be dead, but there's always a catch, "what do you want in return?" "All I want is for the lunar guard to give two human assassin's free passage, and for then to be the ones to kill your sister and Discord. So what do you say?" All she had to do is give two assassins free passage to her sister and Discord so they could kill them, and in return she would get to be the only ruler of her nation and no one would be able to stop her, it was too good to be true. But it was true, "how could I say no." She said with a slight smile. "Then it is settled, have a good sleep, Nightmare." And with that everything faded to black. Author's Note Sorry this took so long I honestly have no excuse for this exept laziness, and that's all.
Corvo's pologue: A deal is made.Dunwall was in mourning, the loss of the lord protector was a great tragedy to all of the empire. Empiress Emily kaldwhin had taken it the worst however, he had raised her ever since her mother was assassinated by Daud, the knife of dunwall, and the "royal" spy master. Ever since the guard came in and told her of his death she had been shocked, the man who had saved the entire empire from corruption and the rat plague had died, how was that possible? He had magic that others would only dream of, unless they too were marked and even then his magic had only gotten stronger on a level that even the great witch granny rags her self was in capable of possessing. And he had died from old age, Granny rags was ancient even before corvo was even born and she wasn't as magically powerful! But then again maybe it was a power only she possessed. The funeral was a dreary sight to say the least the sky seemed to even be crying for corvo as it rained. Corvos body was being buried next to Emily's mother, Jessamine kaldwhin, because she knew how they felt about each other and she believed it would have been what he would have wanted. After the nobles and friends of corvos had given their condolences and their farewells, Emily was left alone, tears and makeup running down her face, walking over to the plack which marked where corvos body was she place her childhood doll on the plack,"farewell corvo." Celestia wobberled around the room after trying, and failing to imprison a creature much more powerful then her which she had sensed around equestria, the creature in question had so much magical energy that it had talked the combined power of Discord, her sister and har self to even harm it,"did we get him," asked an exhausted Discord. "No I don't think we did," replied Celestia who had finally fallen on the floor, face first. Almost to tell her that she was correct a creature that resembled a human just with black eyes appeared in the room,"who do you think you are?! How dare any of you even try to imprison me, do none of you know who I am?"the new comer had the same massive amount of magical energy coming off of him then the creature,"you can all trust me that there will be consequences for this action!"and with those final words he disappeared and Celestia's vision faided to black. Corvo awoke to a purple mist enveloping him and and distant whispering, the whispers of a rune, getting up Corvo found that he was atop a floating platform with a staircase leading up to what looked like his room at dunwall tower, and the whispers were coming from there. Walking up the stair case he found a shrine to the outsider in the corner of his room which had random hole in the wall and objects floating in the air,"well I'll never pass up a free rune,"mumbaled corvo in his deep hoarse voice, age had not been pleasant for him his bone ached he had horrible cough that had made his voice ache and become very hoarse, he wasn't the worst he could have been but to him it was terrible. As his hand made contact with the rune a sound could be heard behind him it sounded like foot steps, turning around corvo already knew who it was the outsider, the God like being who had watched him save dunwall and given him the mark on his hand, the source of all his powers,"hello Corvo have you missed me?" Questioned the outsider, Corvo didn't reply,"come now, is that any way to treat the "man" who just saved your life? Shame on you corvo, and they call you lord," the outsider huffed. "What do you want outsider?" Corvo questioned the cosmic entity. "To make a deal," stated the outsider. "And what deal would that be, Outsider?" Questioned the human. "The deal is I want some other god like creatures dead and your going to kill them, Corvo," replied the Outsider,"as you should know you are the most powerful person I have ever marked." He explained," and if you choose to do this, I will let you see Emily again and let you pass on to the after life." Corvo thought it over, he didn't know what kind of "creatures" he would be facing and he was an old man he couldn't face a good like being,"in my condition I can't fight anything, Outsider, you'll have to find someone else," Corvo said hoping he could get out of the deal. "I can easily solve that, corvo," and with a snap of the Outsiders fingers Corvo was once again a young man, all of his aches and pains were gone and he felt full of energy, but now realised he didn't have away to get out besides refusing the offer. "What happens if I refuse, Outsider?" "You will stay here in the void for all eternity and be tortured all that time as well as you will be the reason why the void consumes the entire universe, which it is constantly trying to do, oh and of course be the reason why Emily will suffer a slow and painful death." Corvo was at a loss for words, he would do all of that if he didn't do this, what was he up against?! "So do we have a deal or not?" "What the hell am I up against, Outsider, if these creatures can cause so much damage to you, of all things! What makes you think I can do anything?!" Corvo was confused to why the Outsider had asked him do this, or why he even thought he could. "Because, Corvo, they won't expect you, but me instead and if I went to this realm i'd be going against one of the rules of my task," Corvo was confused,'the Outsider has a job?!' He thought to him self suprised," so I'll ask again, do we have a deal or not?"the Outsider asked the human, starting to get annoyed. "Well if its to save all of the people I care about, then yes we have a deal," stated Corvo. "Well then, time for the debreifing!" Corvo was confused at this a debreifing from the Outsider, he never gave anyone those about anyone," you will be facing two alicorns, named Celestia and Luna, and a draconequus, named Discord, all of which are magical creatures. Celestia and Luna both have magic based around what they represent, Celestia the sun and Luna the moon, Discord however is a spirit of chaos so be weary of him. Also this land has a great deal of magic in it so don't worry about mana, you'll be fine," as the Outsider said the last words he flicked his fingers and Corvo was gone. In the fields close to the everfree forest an explosion of purple fire and dark smoke erupted out of nowhere, leaving a crater with a strange sight inside, a human being was in the crater and scattered all around him were a metal mask, a crossbow, a gun, ammunition for the gun and crossbow and a heart with gears and wires inside as well as a new set of clothes. In a near by cottage a timmied mare opened her door, to find a giant crater right in front of her house ,"oh my!"
The main sixFluttershy was happily feading her animal friends when a explosion scared the living daylights out of her and her animal friends, looking outside she saw smoke coming up from a massive crater in the ground,"oh my," she barly whispered to herself 'somepony could be hurt,"she thought to her self running over to the hole looking inside she saw a terrifying creature. It was six feet tall and was wearing clothes that looked like they were made of leather it also had claws like Spikes but they were rounded off at the end. Terrified she ran to the only pony she thought would know what it was, her friend Twilight Sparkle. Twilight was enjoying a nice cup of tea and reading a book when Fluttershy had ran into the tree turned library,"Fluttershy what are you doing here?"questioned twilight,"and what happened?"she now asked seeing the look of terror on Fluttershy face. "I saw a monster! And I don't know what it is and it scared me!" Fluttershy said, which might as well have been a snout for her. 'Wait a monster, and Fluttershy didn't know what it was' Twilight thought to her self,"what did you see, Fluttershy? What did it look like?"Twilight said whilst getting out of her chair. "I'll show you," Fluttershy said, back to her normal whisper. "So what do you think it is, Twilight?" Fluttershy asked the lavender unicorn. "I don't know, it kinda looks like a human from one of those old stories, but their only old mares tales nothing more," Twilight responded, it did look alot like a human. "A–a hu–hu–human!?" Stuttered a horrified fluttershy 'if this is a human then all her animal friends were in danger' she thought to herself, scarred for the lives of the animals in her cottage,"maybe we should get the other girls,"she suggested to Twilight. "Yeah, we should if this is a human then its probably dangerous" responded twilight, but as the pair walked away the man in the crater began to wake up. Corvos POV: I awoke to the smell of burning and a face full of dirt, after getting up I saw all of my belongings scattered around a ditch, which I was in. Seeing a new set of clothes I decided that I should put those on first and then my mask, after getting my new clothes on I picked up my mask, it was worn in so places and some of the silk on the inside had started to come off, putting it on I found out that all of its functions still worked. After putting my mask and clothes on I picked up my pistol and crossbow, along with the various types of ammo, after picking up my spring razors and electronic mines as well as my granades, I finally picked up the heart of a living thing, and asked a question,"where am I?" The heart responded by saying,"this place is different from Dunwall in may ways, for one never has a plague or war raveged this land and nor has traitory, but this land has had many villains and enemies," responded the heart in the voice of Emily's mother, Jessamine kaldwhin. Corvo now remembering the late egrew a little depressed over her memory, but quickly got over it, he had a job to do after all and remembering past events was not part of it. After blinking out of the hole he noticed that he was in a large field next to a over grown forest, using his dark vision he found out it had a much greater existence then the last time he had used it and he could see two glowing objects walking away from him, this was when he found that he could also hear peoples thoughts,'I really hope that wasn't a human, their so scary,' thought the one on the left, he also noticed that they weren't shaped like people but more like, ponies? Yes ponies,"so instead of people, this place has ponies. What the hell?" He said to himself. Turning dark vision off he didn't feel the usual lack of energy, which was strange, asking the heart why he didn't feel tired it responded by explaining that this land had a massive suply of magical energy within it, blinking over to a near by cottage he looked through a window to see what was inside, what he saw was odd, to him at least, in the cottage were hundreds of animals 'strange' he thought to himself but seeing no inntellegent life in the building he left it, to go to the town the two horses were heading to blinking he vanished and reappeared on a hill next to the two small horses, who were talking to each other. As well as his dark visions increased range his blinks had also been increased. Now realising where he was he quickly ducked behind a near by rock, the ponies were talking to each other,"so, Fluttershy, how are your animal friends doing?"asked the one on the right. "They're doing just fine, Twilight. How's spike?" Asked a much more timid voice from the yellow one, Corvo now noticed that the yellow one had wings and the lavander one had a horn,'a pegasus and unicorn, what's wrong with this place, and they can talk too!' thought a very confused Corvo. After a couple of minutes passed the two ponies left and Corvo was able to blink unnoticed, going in the general direction of the town he appeared right outside of its borders, the town it self was very colourful and old fashioned, none of them were made of wood or metal and most had hay or wood as a roof, realising that the town was full of ponies he decided to hide on a nearby wooden roof hide. Fluttershy and Twilight had been having an awkward conversation on they're way to ponyville, to get they're other friends, Twilight decided that they should split up to try and find their friends, Fluttershy went to find rainbow dash and pinkie whilst Twilight went to find Apple Jack and Rarity. Half an hour later Twilight was at the entrance to sweet Apple acres, walking through the entrance way Twilight saw granny smith rocking in her chair on the front porch, walking over to granny smith she said hello and asked if she knew where, Apple Jack, is," excuse me, granny smith, but have you seen Apple Jack around?" she asked th e much older mare. "Well howdy, Twilight. She's in ta Apple orchard over their," responded a chearful granny smith. "Thank you, granny," Twilight politely responded. Granny responded with a nod and then went back to rocking in her chair. Twilight walked over to the orchard granny smith had pointed to and looked for Apple Jack. After about ten minutes Twilight finally found the orange mare bucking an Apple tree,"hey, Twi, how's it goin?"asked a chearful Apple Jack. "Hey, AJ, Fluttershy and I think we found something odd, so we thought it would be a good idea to find all of you and see if it's dangerous or not," responded Twilight. "What did ya find, Twi? what is it?" Apple Jack asked, wanting to know what this thing was. "I'm not really sure, but it kinda looks like a human," Twilight answered the country pony's question. "A human, well then of course this things dangerous, we need to find the other girls now," Apple Jack said whilst running. "We need to get Rarity, Apple jack," Twilight called after her friend. When the two got to Rarity's house and explained the situation, they headed straight for Fluttershy's cottage,"are you sure it was a human, darling?"questioned Rarity. "I'm 99 percent sure, Rarity," she called back. "An' that be bad news for us ponies," Apple Jack added. "Oh Celestia," Rarity said to noone in particular. When they got to the cottage the three other mares were waiting there for them,"what took to so long," said an annoyed Rainbow Dash,"I had to wake up from a nap for this!" "We were getting Rarity, Dash," responded Apple Jack, "now, where is it?" "We don't know, AJ," called the blue mare. "What! That thing can kill the whole of ponyville if the legends are true, we're all bucked!" Yelled the worried mare," I gotta protect ma family,"said Apple Jack as she galloped to sweet Apple arches. Whilst all this was happening Corvo was exploring the town, looking for anything to tell him where his targets might be.
Limits and new powersNothing. Nothing was in this little pony town well except, of course ponies. Corvo really just wanted a shrine or something he could use to contact the Outsider so he could learn where his targets were in this happy land of magic and rainbows. 'That pegasus was weird' he thought to himself. Currently he was in an attic of an old house that did not have hay as a roof, which surprisingly was a rarity for this town which made sneaking much harder that added with all the pegasi flying around up in the sky and roofs out of the question, but luckily for him there was a lot of alleys he could hide in. At this moment in time he was counting how much ammo he had for his weapons. 'Okay so I have 35 bullets, 15 explosive bullets, 35 crossbow bolts, 15 sleep darts and 15 explosive darts. Now onto gagets 4 grenades, 2 sticky grenades, 5 bottles of choke dust, 5 bottles of baffle dust and 8 spring razors. Now weapons, 1 folding blade, 1 pistol and lastly one crossbow.' After checking out the equipment he had, and putting it all back into his coat, Corvo decided to check out his new powers. Mist – a power that allows Corvo to turn into a faint black mist for as long as he wanted and would make him impossible to touch or hear but not invisible just much harder to see. The higher it is upgraded the less noticeable the mist is. Erosion – a power that allows Corvo to turn almost any solid to ash as well as living things but the this will take much longer because of the bodies natural regeneration over time, resulting in a painful death because the one it is being done to can't die intill their heart has been destroyed. Higher it is upgraded the faster it goes. Blink – a extremely fast sprint that is so fast it is much like teleporting. More upgrades will cause it to have longer range. Dark vision – this power allows someone to see through walls and another persons line of sight if upgraded it can also allow you to see objects of interest through a wall, if upgraded thurther its range will increase intill it reaches a maximum of 1km in all directions and if upgraded more allow someone to "hear" someone else's thoughts but only if the caster it focusses on the person they want to read the thoughts of. Stop time – allows the user to completely stop time and move but slightly slower then normal but if it is upgraded it can allow for someone to move as fast as they normally would without being spotted unless standing in front of someone intill the ability wears of which will last longer depending of how much it is upgraded then stopping at a maximum of 20 minutes for the user. Possession – an ability allowing the user to control another living creatures body upgrading allows the user to possess intelligent life more upgrading allows it for longer a draw back to this ability is that the users body goes into the others body meaning when it wears off and the user is in a crowd people will notice the user. Wind blast – allows the user to send a powerful blast of wind out of their hand that can send projectiles back to where they came from or just further or stunn other creatures and the more upgrading it done to it will make more powerful intill reaching its maximum strength at becoming a 100% lethal blast to human and anything smaller and somethings even larger and is able to send objects upto 60 feet. Devouring swarm – allows the user to summon a swarm of anything eating (alive or dead) rats out of thin air, it can be used to distract enemies or kill them. Higher the upgrade the larger and hungrier the swarm gets and luckily for the user the rats don't attack them. After about two hours of testing his new abilities he discovered that his new powers mist and erosion would be very useful in stealth operations such as getting in quietly and staying unnoticed by guards or civilians alike. Whilst Corvo was testing his new powers the mane six, two of which were trying to get Apple Jack to calm down, were looking for the magical assassin. "Okay girls spread out, Rainbow Dash you search for the human from the sky, Pinkie you search the town. Fluttershy and, Rarity go and try to get Applejack to calm down," Twilight ordered."And remember if you see it get the rest of us, that goes to you Dash," she warned her friends. Once all her friends had left she went back into her library to try and find a book on humans and their weaknesses, it is true she could always go speak with lyra but she didn't want that mare getting too close to the human. Pinkie was happily hopping down the street searching for the human, she wasn't afraid of it why would she be its not like it was as bad as the legends said they were because noone is so bad it would kill a pony right, maybe hurt one really bad but not kill and eat a pony ,"Ooooh I can throw him a 'welcome to Equestria, please don't eat us party' it would have cake and snacks and punch, and it would show everypony that human really aren't that bad and..." Pinkies thought process was interrupted by a strange purple glow coming from a near by alley and a very quiet whispering, heading into the alley she found an odd shrine thing. It had small purple lanterns around it and two large bits of purple silk that met above the main peice that was three legged table that had a large chunk of bone with a weird symbol on it. The whispers were coming from the bone and Pinkie for some reason felt drawn to it and was slowly walking to the stone, once she had it in her hooves she didn't want to put it back,"I think I'll keep this." She said to herself. Meanwhile Corvo was watching an orange mare, who for some unknown reason was barricading the windows on her house whilst what looked like her family were trying to find out why. "What the hay are you doing, Applejack?" Asked the large red stallion. "I'm protectin yall," this 'Applejack' called to the stallion. "What'cha mean, six?" Asked a small yellow filly. With a sigh the orange mare told her family that some of her friends, whose names were Twilight and Fluttershy, had found a human in a crater and left to find their other friends but when they got there the human was gone, but Corvo didn't care about that what he cared about was that he was now known 'well shit. This could complicate things for me, especially if their searching for me' he thought to him self. "But, Applejack humans are old myths, stories told to little kids to make them be good. Their not real," said her older brother,"did you even see it." "Well no, but Twi and Fluttershy told me what they saw, and I believe 'em" replied th smaller mare. As the two were having they're debate Corvo noticed a white unicorn with a purple mane and the same butter yellow pegasus running down the road to the house. When they got their the mares started to say that what Applejack was saying was true and eventually won the argument but then started to try and get the orange one to calm down and help them search for the "brutish" human, those words from little miss marshmallow. It took a while and for a rainbow maned mare to help the two but they eventually got her on the search and they all ran off down the road apart from "Rainbow Dash" who was looking at the barn Corvo was in suspicesly, after about a minute of her eying the barn she took the first couple steps towards the wooden structure he was in. Switching dark vision on he read the pony's mind 'okay, Dash don't be scared, its just a human' she thought to herself. Corvo then turned into his mist form and hid in a dark corner of the room to conceal himself In the darkness, a couple seconds later and the barn doors opened and the mare stepped in, searching for him in the darkness when she didn't find anything she decided to leave. 'That was a little too close'close'
Another player joins the gameWhilst Corvo was searching ponyville for clues to his targets whereabouts a dark mist was falling towards Manehattan, the ponies in alleys and on roof tops stared at the mist in a mix of fear and awe, that was intill it smashed into an old abandoned building were awe disappeared. A man lay on the floor of an old and crumbling building, this man was clad in a reddish brown leather coat and had large leather gloves on his hands, his hair was put back and his face looked to be aging. As this man was sleeping the world started to slow down and a dark mist appeared in the air then another man with black eyes came out of the smoke and floated above the man by now time had completely stopped. "Wake up, Daud." The Outsider said. "Gurrgh" the man in the floor groaned looking up "what do you want?" The Outsider smirked "I have a job for you, Daud," the Outsider began,"what do you say to killing three gods for me." "Do I even have a choice in the matter?" Asked the ex-assassin. "Not at all," the Outsider replied,"and by the way your in a land full of multicoloured ponies, and Corvo's here." He said just before disappearing into the same black mist that brought him here. "What? What does he mean 'ponies'? And what does he mean Corvos here?" As Daud said this the door down stairs broke and he thought he heard a voice say. "Okay, guardsmen it landed in here, search the building, check everything. We don't know what this thing is, so be prepared. Understood?" Said what Daud guessed was a commanding officer of so kind. "Sir, yes, sir!" Multiple voices shouted, some of which sounded feminine. 'Well, looks like a good time to leave' Daud thought to himself as he blinked onto a neerby book case. Golden blade had been having a good day for the most part, he'd been able to go out with his family for lunch and was able to go see his friends in the trading district of the city. And then a giant black meteorite thing had to fall out the sky and crash into the old silver tooth mansion. The building had been here since the city was nothing more then a small town, which was about three hundred years ago and had been left vacant for about sixty to eighty years and no one in the city wanted to go in let alone renovate it, the reason for this was that is was supposedly haunted by the last generation of the silver tooth family, who had all died at the dinner table from being poisoned by a maid. A motive for the crime was never found so it was just seen as a brutal case of mass murder, twenty seven lives silenced in an instant. But right now ghosts were the least of his problems as he walked through the halls with the bane of his existence, Saber Fire. By no means was the kid a pony who he hated, he was just so annoying. "So, Golden how's your day been?" Asked Saber. "Good," was Golden Swords reply. "OK cool, so err... how're the kids? Doing alright in school?" "They're doing fine." Was the flat reply. That's when Saber stopped trying to make small talk and decided to shut the hell up, well it seemed like he decided to any way what really happened was that Saber was currently being strangled by a bipedal assassin. After hearing a thud from behind him Golden turned to see Saber lying on the floor next to a tall bipedal creature which was covered completely in clothes apart from its face which had a large scar running down the side of its face, as he was taking all this in it raised its arm and a green dart shot out and his whole world went black. Daud stood over the two unconscious horses in front of him, they looked like military horses the the only diffence being the one he'd choked out had wings. "What the fuck has the Outsider gotten me into?" Daud questioned himself. Luna was in a very strange place right now. The reason why she found it strange was because of how empty it was, aside from some ckuncks of canterlot dotted around its abyss, which seemed to go on forever. She was scared to say the least. "Where are we?!" Luna questioned the void around her, not expecting a response. So imagine her shock when she got one. "Well 'princess', your in my domain, the void." A distinctly masculine voice said, as the darkness around here condensed into a body. When the darkness finally finished making the body a tall bipedal creature floated above her, its black eyes piercing into her very being and a small but noticeable smirk on its face," and you have no power here." "What art thou?!" She asked, going into old Equestrian. "Well, fair maiden, I am but a humble creature, who only seeks to watch the lives of others who I deem entertaining," He said, bathing his words in sarcasm," but seriously, you interest me quite a bit." "What do you mean, whoever you are?" Luna questioned the eternity old being. This seemed to only make the creatures smirk a little bigger," well you see, luna I know about your little secret shall we say, and said secret has made you a very interesting pony, or should I say Nightmare. And my true name would kill you if you heard it, so just call me Outsider, everyone does." Luna's eyes widened a little as her little "secret" was revealed" how do you know about that, Outsider." "Well I watch everything so I know everyone's secrets." He said. "So what do you want to do with this new information?" She asked the strange being. "Well, all I want is to offer you a deal." The Outsider said with a smirk, "a deal that will make you the most powerful creature in the whole of Equs and have both your sister and Discord dead on the floor." Now this got Nightmares attention, she would finally get to be the queen she deserved to be and her idiotic sister and that idiot Discord would be dead, but there's always a catch, "what do you want in return?" "All I want is for the lunar guard to give two human assassin's free passage, and for then to be the ones to kill your sister and Discord. So what do you say?" All she had to do is give two assassins free passage to her sister and Discord so they could kill them, and in return she would get to be the only ruler of her nation and no one would be able to stop her, it was too good to be true. But it was true, "how could I say no." She said with a slight smile. "Then it is settled, have a good sleep, Nightmare." And with that everything faded to black. Author's Note Sorry this took so long I honestly have no excuse for this exept laziness, and that's all.
