Assassin: Savior of Canterlot

Niko sat in his living room watching TV, thinking about what had happened a month ago. He wasn't even really focusing on the TV at all, even though his favorite show was on. His green eyes just stared blankly at the screen as he ran his fingers through his black hair. His peachy white skin looking a bit more pale than usual. He remembered the utter chaos that ensued in the middle of town square. It still haunted him, even after all that time. Allow me to elaborate a bit.

Niko was walking through Canterlot city over winter break, looking at all the wonderful Christmas lights that were put up on display. As he admired the creative work of others, a set of vans parked across the street from him. Niko jumped as the doors to the van flung open, and a group of men carrying assault rifles quickly stepped out. They began to open fire on people, anyone unfortunate enough to be seen was shot. Niko managed to duck into an alley and hide behind a dumpster. He frantically looked around, trying to find a better hiding place. He spotted a route to the roof that was inconspicuous, and hard to use. In his rush of adrenaline, he made quick work of the difficult path. He scanned the roof top for anything useful. He found an old chain and a hunting knife, but that was it.

"Good enough." he said. He tied one end of the chain around the handle of the knife, and made sure it was on really good. He took a peek at the alley he was just in, and saw a lone guy with an AR scanning around for anyone to shoot. Niko noticed the large machete the armed man had sheathed on his belt and his gun, he knew that they would help him get out of there alive. He took the hunting knife he found and threw it at the man like a dart. The knife stabbed the man in the side of the neck and got stuck. With a quick flick of his wrist, Niko got the chain wrapped around the man's neck a few times. He quickly started pulling the man's dead body up to the roof where he was at.

Niko dragged the man over the concrete barrier surrounding the roof, and dropped him at his feet. Unfortunately, the sudden shock of being stabbed in the neck had cause the man to drop his gun. Niko didn't dare to traverse back down there, so he opted out of trying to get the gun. He just took the dead man's machete, along with any other blades or weapons he had, and began looking for a method of travel that didn't involve using the streets. He had long since determined that the streets were no longer safe. A thought came into his head, one that might have been what saved his life. He had seen many parkour tutorials, but he'd never actually done parkour before.

"It's worth a shot." Niko thought. He leapt from the rooftop he was on, to the rooftop of a neighboring shop.

After about an hour of jumping from roof to roof, Niko found a street with armed police officers on it. Niko dropped his weapons and called out to the officers.

"Hey! Up here! Help me down please!" he shouted down, waving his arms above his head. The officers pointed their flashlights at him and called to him on a megaphone.

"Just hold tight! We're gonna get you down!" they said. Niko gave a thumbs up and nodded. After five minutes of waiting, a couple officers came back with a ladder. "We're going to set the ladder up! Can you use it to climb down?!" the officer asked.

"Yeah!" he replied. The officers set up the ladder and Niko used it to climb down. After a few questions about how Niko had gotten up there and what had happened, they let him go. He had overheard a call between two officers, that the attack was organised by an extremist group that had claimed territory in the next town over. Apparently they had set up a blockade so no one could get into the city, and they dumped all of their electronics so they couldn't be monitored.

Back to the present, Niko was thinking about the events that had transpired. A sudden news report broke his train of thought.

"We interrupt your regularly scheduled program for this emergency broadcast. We have just received word of another attack lead by the terrorist group known as viper head. They carried out the attack similar to the way they carried out their first attack on Canterlot, about a month ago. Between twenty and thirty people were killed, and many more were seriously injured in the attack. Of the dead, two of them were officers with the Canterlot PD." the reporter said. For Niko, that was the final straw. He turned off his tv and went to his basement. The basement wasn't a finished basement per-say. But Niko had covered the walls and ceiling in a thick layer of concrete.

Niko turned the lights on, revealing a workbench with a laptop and a large amount of tools. There was also what appeared to be a furnace of some sort down there, and a large punching bag in a corner of the room. He pulled out a few more tools he had stashed away in a few cases, and spread them out on the workbench with everything else. He started up the furnace, and started pulling out pieces of scrap steel he had. He started the laptop and immediately started looking at designs for tomahawks, along with a few other weapons.

"I'm gonna put a stop to this, once and for all." Niko said.