2 A Clean Slate

Night knew he had to take precautions with the pony and made sure that she was hidden whenever the police decided to come knocking and looking for the precious little foal who was taken from her mother at only two weeks old. He decided to set a hidden cupboard up which will send her to a predetermined location.

Night decided that while the pony will be taught knowledge by him and fighting skills by the griffins that he will not manipulate the genes of her on his first run and then record the data of her invasion and then change her to allow for her to progress further.

Multiple things became evident to Night over the years as he was raising Midnight, the first of which is that she was a highly intelligent individual able to be a natural at most subjects he had taught her and she had become fluent in the language by the age of six years old. He had also worked out that she was interested in trying to play chess creating ingenious traps whenever he played against her, he had given her a rulebook for chess and she had engorged herself into it.

When Midnight turned eight Night decided to introduce her to the griffins to start training her in the ways of fighting.

"You want to train this scruff ball? Are you mad? What do you think she is going to fight with, her hooves? I know you're supposed to be a genius pony or something but she has nothing notable!" said the griffin train.

Night examined the griffin for a few seconds and replied "Why do you think I came to you? It is not for the science I assure you. Ponies are capable of wielding blades as you know and we have better strategies than your weapon relying upon griffins. I want her trained  to a stage to where she can conquer a unicorn at sword fight unless you think you don't have the brains to even do that." while slamming his hoof down in front of him.

The griffin in front of him visibly recoiled and lifted up his claw in defense seeing the aggression from the pony in front of him and then replied shakily "I understand."

Night casually walked across the griffin outpost towards the commander post on the other side watching the griffins in their business making weapons and tools and carving the meat of recently captured prey. it made him sick to even watch these animals be eaten, even though he had understood that Griffins grew up eating meat, and the Canterlot within him hated the fact that he even had to walk among these barbaric soldiers but he was patient enough to wait until the day where he could stand on Equestria's ashes and taken back his lands using the weak ponies as slaves following his every command.

As Night arrived at the commander's tent he heard a heated argument from within and then saw a griffin leave the tent in anger and towards the woods the camp was parallel to. Night walked into the tent and saw the general in front of him was reading the map of Equestria intense curiosity.

The general was quite possibly the only griffin that had gained Night's respect as he had experienced a whole great deal of pain to get into his position. There was once a young griffin named Gilded Thorn who was brought into Equestria by his dying mother to make sure that he wasn't harmed in the great civil wars between the Griffins. He rose until his eighteenth birthday where he was kicked  out and he forced to join the Equestrian forces. It was said that during his time in the army he was completely merciless using his natural skills as a griffin in an army of ponies and using his intelligence to create scenarios for the enemies slaughter. As he climbed the ladder in positions he acquired the nickname 'The Carnivore' as he was eating the flesh from his enemies as ponies were not bringing the right nutritional products for him to survive, although as he rose through the ladder he still ate his enemies even though meat was being stocked for him to invoke fear within the enemies. He quickly obtained the level of general and was using his forces to quickly destroy the enemy and was living the happy life until Nightmare Moon returned... The problem was that he was supposed to defend Equestria against all threats, and he had  as well as sacrificing a wing and a claw towards the effort, but could not defend Equestria against a being that fast and powerful and it ruined his reputation. He then got drummed out of the military when Celestia decided to reinstate her sister as the royal general of Equestria's Army. The disgraced general decided to leave Equestria soon after and retire in the suburbs of Griffonstone.

"I see you lurking in the shadows pony, come closer I have had an idea of how we are going to get our soldiers back into Equestria on masse," said The General.

Night walked towards the table and looked at the map briefly, he had been pondering how we would get past the magical borders without being noticed, and then said: "What's your idea General?"

The General replied "When I was still in charge of the army one of the jobs was to check if the spell was not wearing and I got to understand the principles behind it. It works on the principle that a massive amount of magic cannot pass through it and as we all contain magic an army would not be able to get through and also magical beasts and criminals could also be singled out. This is bad for us as we need to send a huge amount of sleeper agents in quickly but I used to know this zebra. This guy was nuts with what he could do with the right materials with one of his spells being able to hide a presence which would theoretically get us through the barrier. I was considering calling the guy anyway, he could help us trap the elements of harmony somewhere he is quite good at support and defense."

Night pondered this information for a few moments and the nodded saying "He's perfect. Bring him in soon I would like to have a talk with him. If you don't have anything to add General I shall go pick up Midnight from her combat lesson."

The General grumbled and replied"Isn't she too young for this training? I would imagine the griffons slaughtering her."

Night coldly replied"Midnight is a tool. Tools can be damaged but can be sharpened and fixed. I do not care for her I just need to make sure that I can use her effectively as a tool."