The Sinner of Equestria

Operation Three

Fight for your Freedom

"GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE PUNK!!!" yelled the rainbow-haired pegasus flying after me. Really? Does she expect me to wait for her to catch up to me after saying that?

"Yeah sure. like I'll listen to a technicolor freak like you!" That pretty much struck a nerve when I looked behind myself and saw her face turn red. "Yep, that got her mad. Now let's see if we can make her crash into something?" I looked around the empty cave to see what I can use to give me an uphill advantage. To my surprise, I saw a cracked wall up ahead. A grin appeared on my face as I reached into my pocket and tossed a flash grenade into the path of the pegasus. A loud bang was made as a bright light-filled part of the cave I was in behind me. As the light vanished, I soon took a step to the side as I saw the pegasus rush past me and slam into the cracked wall off to the side. A loud thud was heard in front of me as I looked over to the cyan pegasus stuck in the wall like you see would in cartoons. I walked over to the other side of the wall. I couldn't help but laugh at the way she was trying to get herself out of the wall.

"You may be fast. But when it comes to thinking, you're not the smartest one are you?" I said with a smug grin on my face. The cyan pegasus face was hot red when I said that and was struggling to try to get herself out. I watched her struggle for a good few seconds before running further into the cave.

(Third Person P.O.V)

"Is that all the bits and gems we could get?" asked Gilda.

"Indeed, that is all Trixie was able to fit in this strange device that Adelle gave us,” Trixie replied. "Trixie has to admit, this thing would’ve been quite useful, if somepony made this."

"Yeah well let's just hurry up and get out of here," Gilda said as she placed the portable storage unit in her pocket. "Celestia knows we don't want those losers to catch up to us." Just as they were about to leave, Adelle jolted past them and hit the wall behind them.

"Ow....ugh.....I'm starting to wish I was a human, how can you ponies run with just stubby feet?"

"You still can't walk? How are you even alive after killing that dragon?" Gilda asked.

"Shut it bird brain," Adelle said as she picked herself up from the ground. "Anyway, were you able to get everything in the cave?" She asked as they nodded. "Good, now we need to book it out of here."

"Trixie is guessing that Twilight and her friends are heading this way?"

"That and one pissed-off pegasus that's on her way to kill me after what I did to her. You got my storage unit?" Adelle asked as Gilda handed over the storage unit to her. "Thanks now to time to set some traps.” The sinner said as she switched to her binding thorn, and placed a few traps around the cave they were in. “That should buy us sometime before they catch up to us.”

"Trixie is wondering what you’re planning to do with those?"

"Oh just setting a trap for are ‘friends’ that's all," Adelle said with a grin on her face as she laid the last trap on the ground. "And relax this won't kill them, it'll just trap them here long enough for us to escape."

"You think that’ll work?" asked Gilda.

"Well, it’s better than waiting here for them to find us," Adelle said as she switched back to her Shielding Thorn. "Now come on, let’s get going." With that, the trio ran off deeper into the cave in an attempt to escape the six ponies chasing after them. A good amount of time has passed as Adelle, Gilda, and Trixie made it to the end of the other side of the cave. So far Adelle was the only one that wasn't tired from the endless running. Thanks to the training and battles that she went through back home. Her new friends on the other hand were pretty much tired, sweaty, and gasping for air as they both collapsed on the ground.

"Y...You think...we lost them?" Gilda asked.

"Trixie...is too tired...to even look back...but she is hoping we...did."

"Wow, you guys need to work out more," Adelle said as both Gilda and Trixie glared at the sinner. "What? You guys were egging on me about my climbing skills, so why not get you back."

"Oh, whatever," Gilda said as she pulled herself up. "Anyway, you think those traps of yours work?"

"I hope so. I know that it should trap four of them at least." Adelle said as she pulled out aftershadow.

"Trixie suggests that we should leave before something else happens."

"Oh please, it'll take them at least an hour or two to get out of the traps I set."

"Have you ever tested it on ponies with magic before?" Gilda asked.

"No, but it's not like they can teleport or anything." Just as said, a flash of purple light appeared in front of the trio. As the light dimmed the six ponies that were chasing them, were standing in front of them.

“Hi!” said Pinkie Pie as she waved at them.

"Well look who's wrong!" yelled Gilda.

“Fuck you bitch. You never told me that they could teleport out of my trap.”

"Okay, now that we caught up to you three. Care to explain why you killed that dragon?" asked Twilight.

"Care to explain who you six ponies are before I answer your question?" Adelle asked.

“Oh, well my name is Twilight Sparkle.” The lavender unicorn said as she pointed towards. “And these are my friends, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy.”

“....Well...those are….interesting names.”

“Now care to tell us who you are, sugar cube?” Applejack asked

“Yeah, and why are you with Trixie and Gilda?” Rainbow Dash added.

“Well to answer your first question Applejack. My name is Adelle Topaz, a former sinner of the Panopticon in New York." Adelle said as she pulled out a sign with a barcode on it. "And why am I with these two chuckleheads behind me? Well, to make a long story short I saved them from a thing called a manticore, and we became friends afterward."

"Ok that answers my first question, but I have a few more questions," Twilight said.

“And those are?”

“What the hay is a sinner?” asked Rainbow Dash, which caused Adelle to groan in annoyance.

"Not like they'll believe a word I say...might as well see how it plays out." Adelle thought as she turned her focus onto Twilight and her friends.

(Adelle’s P.O.V)

I pretty much told them everything to some degree. Had to lie about what country I came from, that a sinner was a criminal forced to do what the higher-ups tell them to do, and how I ended up here. Unexpectedly, the expressions on their faces were a mixed collection of confusion, interest, and not so much interest. Mainly from Rainbow Dash and Applejack from the looks of it.

“And that pretty much explains who I am, and what a Sinner is in a nutshell," I said, finishing up my story.

"So you’re a former prisoner from another country?" asked Twilight. I just nodded yes to her question.

"Now if you'll excuse us, we'll be on our way-" Before I could turn around and leave, Rainbow Dash quickly appeared in front of me.

"And where do you think you're going? You expect us to just let you wander around Equestria after telling us you're a criminal?"

"Rainbow Dash is right. There are a few things in your story that don't add up," She said before I noticed her and the others circling us. "And given what you did to that dragon, you'll need to come with us to have a word with Princess Celestia."

"....You saw what I did to the dragon, what makes you think you six can take me down?"

"We're the elements of harmony," Rainbow Dash said with a grin on her face. "If we can take down Nightmare Moon, we can take down a punk kid like you." Great, hot-headed, and overconfident.

"I don't know who this Nightmare Moon person is, and frankly I don't care. But unlike most of the enemies, you must've fought, you never dealt with someone like me. So, I suggest you and your friends leave me and my friends alone, or else you'll regret what's going to happen." I said as I once again tried to walk away, only to feel something wrapped around my wrist. Looking at it, I followed where it led as I saw Applejack was the one behind it.

"And just where do you think you’re going, partner?"

"Um...leaving, where else?"

"We told you before. We can't let you leave," said Twilight. "You're coming with us to Princess Celestia."

"I'm giving you six one more chances. Let me go, or else it's going to be a fight where you will not last, nor will you come out untouched.”

"Taking a life is wrong, you could’ve just run away from the dragon." said the pony named Fluttershy. I Shifted my gaze at her which caused her to hide behind Twilight.

"Yeah cause that dragon would’ve let me go without any problems whatsoever," I said sarcastically. I mean really if I read anything about how the predator and prey relationship works, is that the predator will always chase down their prey no matter what. “If I did run away, then that dragon would have burned down that village over there," I said pointing over at the village, how the hell do these ponies survive this long without getting killed?

"Be that as it may you three are coming with us," said Twilight.

"Fine. Let it be known that I gave you the chance to leave just like I did with the dragon." I said before quickly cutting the rope around my wrist and trying to strike at Rainbow Dash with the blade part of my aftershadow. Rainbow Dash quickly pulled herself back to avoid my attack as she tried to tackle me, on to notice me dropping another flash grenade onto the ground as it went off after closing my eyes.

The moment the light from the flash grenade died down, I opened my eyes to see the girls were currently blind. I took this opportunity to switch out my sword with a pair of brass knuckles and deliver a hard punch to Rainbow Dash's chin as it sent her tumbling to the side.

“One down, five to go,” I said before noticing the girls recovering from the flash grenade as they quickly closed the distance between me and Applejack by using my thorns to bring myself over to her. Once I was close, I tried to deliver a punch to her face, only for a barrier to appear around as the recoil from hitting it caused me to stagger back a bit. I soon felt that weird force pulling me over to her like before as I quickly threw the handle part of a knife at Twilight's horn. The unicorn let out a yelp of pain as the glow around her horn vanished.

“Oh, you are so dead you little punk!” Rainbow Dash yelled as she flew behind me to catch me by surprise. I quickly ducked underneath the tackle as she collided with the barrier that Twilight made around Applejack. The moment she made contact with the barrier it instantly shattered as Rainbow Dash tackled Applejack as they both went tumbling backward.

"For a bunch of heroes that took down Nightmare Moon, you have pretty poor combat skills," I said while pulling myself up and taking up a boxing stance. "Come on, is that all you got?"

"That overconfidence will be your downfall," Twilight said as her horn started to glow even brighter. In a blink of an eye, a lavender color beam was heading toward me. I quickly use my shielding thorn to form a barrier around myself. The blast hit me, but it didn't hurt as bad as I thought it would. Judging by the expression on Twilight's face, she wasn't expecting me to be unphased by her attack.

"Look stupid, I only killed that dragon because he was on the wanted list. What's the big deal, it's not like he was your friend or something?"

"Taking another life is wrong, even if he was a criminal. You could’ve talked to him so that he would turn himself in."

".....Were you dropped on your head when you were a child or something? Because if you were, then you must be even stupider than your friend Rainbow Crash."

"Hey! don't you dare talk about Rainbow Dash like that, you meanie!" I looked to my right to see the pink pony named Pinkie Pie with a sky blue cannon with her. If I remember correctly back in old times, people used cannons like that during the medieval ages, and after seeing videos of their destructive powers, then I was dead as fuck. I tried to move out of the pink pony's range of fire, but given the surprising state I was in, all I could do was stumble backward and all on my ass.

"Oh, this is so gonna hurt." I closed my eyes waiting for the impact to hit me. But to my surprise when I opened my eyes upon hearing the sound of a party favor going off, I found myself covered in party streamers and confetti. "Really? Fucking confetti? Out all the things you could've used, you used fucking confetti and streamers!?" I yelled as I felt my anger boiling. The pink pony started to slowly back away in fear as I stood up. Of all the most humiliating things for me to fall for, a fake cannon is one of them. "You fucked up big time, fatty. Now I am going to punch your face in until it's nothing more then-" Before I could finish my threat, I felt something hard hit me at the back of my head. I looked behind myself to see the marshmallow unicorn behind me levitating a bunch of rocks around herself.

“You uncouth ruffian! Stay away from Pinkie Pie!" She said while hitting me with another rock at my head. I have to give her credit for hitting me with such accuracy, but damn that gem hurts like hell. If she keeps hitting me in the head like that, then this could be a problem.

"Look I told you before he was wanted-" I couldn't finish my sentence as she threw another rock at my head. "....He was a criminal and I was-" Another rock hit me in the head and I could feel the anger once again boiling up inside me. Though that said anger was now directed toward Rarity. "...You throw another rock at me again, and I will-” Just as she threw another rock at me, I quickly dodge, replacing my brass knuckles for a handgun, and quickly shoot her in the joints in her shoulder and kneecap. She soon screamed in pain before falling to the ground. "Maybe next time you let me finish before interrupting me!" The moment I made my gun vanish, I was taken by surprise by a sucker punch to the face by Applejack and was sent tumbling to the side.

"Y'all gonna pay for that!" Applejack said as I heard her walking over to me. I quickly jumped onto my feet as I was about to deliver a punch to her face, only for her to grab my fist and bend it backward.

"Fuck!" I yelled as she soon delivered multiple punches to my face. Upon the fifth punch, she soon grabbed me by the throat and lifted me from the ground.

(Third Person P.O.V.)

"Are you seeing this?" asked Gilda.

"Trixie can not believe what she is seeing, but she's seeing it.”

"Should we do something?"

"Trixie believes we should, but she doesn't have a plan at the moment."

"Well we gotta think of something fast, I mean look at her," Gilda said as she pointed at Adelle being choked by Applejack.

"......Trixie has an idea on how to help her."

"And what is that?" asked Gilda, raising an eyebrow at the unicorn who motioned for her to follow after her. While the two began their plan of escape, Adelle was busy dealing with the farm pony as she tried her best to escape her iron-clad grip by kicking her in the chest and abdomen area.

"It'll take more than that to release my hold on you kid. Give up now, there's no way you'll escape."

"Then I guess I'll have to improvise!" The bat pony yelled as she switched out her shielding thorns for her binding thorns and quickly had them latch onto the farm pony's body. This took the earth pony by surprise as she felt restrained by the red glowing thorns and released her hold on Adelle's neck. "That should keep you there for a while."

"Concarnit, what is this stuff!?" Applejack yelled as she tried to break free from her bindings. Her ears twitch upon hearing something coming from behind as she quickly jumps into the air. Looking down she saw Rainbow Dash trying to tackle her again, but missed. She soon heard the sound of a beam going off as she quickly twisted her body around to avoid a magical beam from her right before landing back on the ground.

"Ok Adelle, think. You took down two of them and now there are only four left...well two seeing how that pink pony and cream pony can't fight worth a damn...and they're treating the marshmallow unicorn's injuries. Getting around the cyan pegasus won't be an issue, but the unicorn is another story seeing how she can use her magic to pin me down or restrain me like before." Just as she was about to make her move, Adelle noticed Trixie in the background making weird body movements saying ‘get into the air.’ "I'm going to assume they have a plan of escape." She thought before turning her attention onto Twilight and Rainbow Dash.

"Welp, it's been fun and all. But I'll be taking my leave." Adelle said as she noticed Rainbow Dash coming after like a bullet. The bat pony in return pulled out another flash grenade and slammed it onto the ground causing the four ponies to cover their eyes again. Adelle launched herself into the air with the help of a frag grenade. While in the air, she notices Gilda flying at her telling her to put her hands up. She did as she was told and put her hands into the air, and Gilda grabbed them.

"Hey, you seemed to be able to handle yourself fighting them," Gilda answered. "You're not hurt are you dweeb?" Gilda asked as she and Adelle landed where Trixie was just as the light from the flash grenade disappeared.

"Other than almost getting choked out by Applejack, yeah I'm fine." The bat pony answered while rubbing her neck. "Okay, so now what?"

"The Great And Powerful Trixie will teleport us out of here," said Trixie giving off a short victory pose.

"Okay...Why didn't you teleport us out of here sooner?"

"Because I wasn't expecting Twilight and her friends to be here. Plus, it takes a while to gather enough magic to teleport the three of us."

"Whatever, let's just go before we get-." Before Gilda could finish her sentence, the rock they were hiding behind was moved. "caught...horse apples."

"There you are!" said Twilight. "Now surrender or else."

"Eat debilitator nerd!" Adelle yelled as she reached into her pocket and threw a debilitator at Twilight's face. At first, it didn't do anything, but after a few seconds the lavender aura that coated the giant rock disappeared and the rock fell back onto the ground. "Wow, I didn't think that would work."

"You mean you threw whatever that thing was without even knowing it would work?" said Gilda.

“Yep.”

"....I'm not even gonna question it, but anyway." Gilda turned her attention to Trixie. "Trixie get us out of here."

"Trixie is working on it. She needs a few more seconds to build up some more magic." While Trixie was building her magic, Adelle saw something coming at her from the corner of her eyes charging at her.

"You’re not going anyway chumps!” said Rainbow Dash.

"Shit!" In a state of panic. Instead of using her Shielding thorn to block the oncoming attack, Adelle used Aftershadow - Gale Force to block the attack. As the attack made contact with the long sword, Adelle was soon sent flying off into a boulder.

"Ha! taste the rainbow loser!"

(Adelle’s P.O.V.)

"D...Dammit, didn't think she would be fast enough to recover like that." My vision was getting blurry and it felt like I was gonna pass out, that is until I felt a sharp pain coursing through my abdomen. Some of my vision came back as I looked at my broken blade. Looking around I tried to find the other end of the sword, only to notice a trail of blood trailing in front of me. Following the trail of blood, I looked down only to find the other half of the blade. The only problem was that it was lodged into my chest. "Huh...Wasn't...expecting that."

Were it not for the auto-healing augmentation, I'd be dead within seconds. I'll have to use the healing thorns just to make sure I didn't bleed out to death...but I don't have much strength left to even pull that off. My attention was soon turned to the sound of someone landing next to me. That rainbow color jerk landed right in front of me with a cocky grin on her face.

"Thought you took out the great Rainbow Dash? Well, guess again chump."

"Rainbow what the hay were you thinking?!" yelled Twilight as she and her friends appeared around me.

"Hey, she started it. Plus she was mopping the floor with us."

"You could’ve nearly killed her at the rate you were flying, I mean ever heard of-." Before she could finish lecturing her, I started to cough and spat out a huge amount of blood. “Oh no.” From what I could tell with parts of my vision still focused, the color on their faces turned pale.

“Oh crude.” Rainbow Dash said as her eyes widened in horror. “I-I didn’t mean to do that.”

"This isn’t good. The blade is lodged into her chest, and I don’t know how to get it out. We need to get to Ponyville hospi-." Before Twilight could finish, I felt someone pick me up in a hurry. Look up, it was Gilda and Trixie who I can guess swooped in from the side and grabbed me by the tail. "What the!?"

"Nice work Gilda, Trixie is amazed that you can carry us both."

"Just teleport us out of here! You two are heavier than I thought you would be."

"Are you calling The Great and Powerful Trixie fat?"

"Whatever, just teleport us out of here for Luna's sake!"

"Fine, but Trixie is not done talking about this." Just as she was instructed to do. Trixie's horn glowed, and with a blink of an eye, the three of us vanished within seconds. After that everything faded into darkness, and I fell unconscious.

(Third Person P.O.V)

"What the, where did they go?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"I don't know," Twilight answered "But they couldn't have gotten that far with the injury Adelle has. If I’m right, they should’ve teleported to Ponyville’s hospital.”

"But what if they don’t head to the hospital?" asked Rarity while wincing from the pain she felt in her shoulder and leg. "We just can't let her roam free after what she did to that poor dragon."

"We're not Rarity. We'll come back after we inform Celestia of what happened, then return with a search party to find her along with Trixie and Gilda."

"Why not now?" asked Rainbow Dash. "By the time we return they will be long gone by now."

“Because we need to take Rarity to the hospital for her injuries, and we need to get Applejack out of those thorny things,” Twilight said as she pointed at Rarity before pointing over to Applejack who was still trying to break free of the Binding thorns.

"You guys take care of Applejack, I'm going on ahead and finding them." Before anyone could say anything, Rainbow Dash flew into the air towards the Everfree Forest.

"Rainbow Dash wait!" yelled Rarity as she watched the cyan pegasus fly off. "Why does she always do this?"

"We'll go after Rainbow Dash later," said Twilight as she levitated Applejack into the air. "Right now we need to get you and Applejack to the hospital quickly." She said as the five of them began to make their way off the mountain. While this was happening, near the other side of the mountain. A small cave could be seen giving off a flash of light as Adelle, Gilda, and Trixie appeared inside the cave and landed hard on the ground.

"Ugh...my head," said Gilda, pulling herself up from the floor. "I'm starting to remember why I hate magic so much."

"This is what happens when you rush magic. You should be lucky that you’re still intact."

"Whatever at least we got away from those dweebs with the loot we got from that dragon."

"Trixie agrees with you on that, but what do we do now?"

"We'll have to lay low for a while until the heat cools down, so until then let's just hide in this cave till th-." Before Gilda could finish, the griffon heard a cough echoing in the cave.

"Who said that?" asked Gilda.

"Trixie thinks the voice came from Adelle," Trixie answered as she noticed the blade sticking out from the sinner. “Oh, dear Trixie!”

“How in the flying feather did that blade get stuck inside her like that?!” Gilda asked as she rushed over to the injured sinner.

"Something tells me that it happened during the fight with Twilight and her friends."

"W-What do we do?" Gilda asked as she was about to remove the blade, only for Trixie to stop her.

“Don’t do that! If you remove the blade, then her blood will start to pour out of her like a fountain!”

“Can't you just use a spell to make her all better or something?"

"Magic doesn't work that way, you simpleton. You can't just simply use a healing spell and poof you're all better, it takes time and practice for that to work. The time that we don't have at the moment."

"Well think of something! If we don’t do something fast, then we can kiss Adelle goodbye!” Trixie tried to think of a way to try to mend Adelle’s wound, but so far she couldn’t think of any ideas. Because they were miles from the nearest hospital, and that it might kill her if they teleported again. This looked like to be the end of the poor sinner’s life, that is until Trixie had an idea.

"Trixie has an idea!"

"And what would that be, Miss. Great and Powerful Trixie?" Gilda said sarcastically.

“Seeing how we can’t remove the blade without killing her, why not just use the blade on her body?”

"How are we supposed to do that?"

"Simple, my less intelligent friend. I have a spell that allows me to fuse certain items with anypony."

"And you didn't tell me this earlier, why?"

"Well, you didn't ask Trixie if she knew any spells that can do that."

"......You know what, forget it. I'm not even gonna argue with you about this, just do the spell on her."

"With pleasure, now stand back!" said Trixie as she pushed Gilda to the side. "Watch in awe as The Great and Powerful Trixie does her magic!" Trixie's horn started to glow as an arcane circle appeared underneath the unconscious bat pony.

“I pray to Faust this works.”