The Sinner of Equestria

Operation Seven

Schooling

“Welcome to Ponyville’s School Adelle!” yelled Applebloom, pointing at the colorful building.

“This is where every young pony goes to school.”

“Never thought I'd see something like this before. It’s very….interesting.”

“What? You've never been to school before.”

“Where I’m from we don’t have schools like this. We pretty much just learn stuff from our prison cells in the Panopticon or on operations we get sent on.”

“What did you do to get put in the dungeon where you're from?”

"I...prefer not to talk about it. At least not yet.” Not like I didn't want to talk to her about it, it's not something that I'm proud of speaking about given the circumstances. “Shall we go, kid?” I asked before making my way to the front door of the school.

“I can’t wait to tell everypony that the dragon slayer is living at my farm!” Apple Bloom said as she moved past me and into the building. Well, I can't say that I'm against the idea of being used as a show-and-tell project...better than being used as bait or a scapegoat. The moment I entered the classroom, it was the beginning of my hell.

It’s not that I didn’t mind going to school or anything, but it was the fact they asked me...personal questions involving who I was, where I came from, how I took down the dragon, and how I was able to use my tech which they considered magic. I mostly had to lie to them about certain aspects of my life, where I came from, and how I can summon weapons out of thin air. While the children were excited about some of the stuff I performed in the classroom, the teacher was not impressed. If anything, she was annoyed by some of the stuff I said or did. I think what got her most irritated was me about to hand a kid knife. This went on for about a good hour or two until Ms. Cheerlie decided to get the class's attention to do their work for the morning part of the class.

Given the slight glare she was giving me, it was clear that she wanted me to leave and wait outside of the school. Not that I was against it, but something tells me that if I were to go against that pony, then she would get Twilight and her friends to force me to leave. So as a means for us both to make things easy without conflict, I decided to leave and wait for Apple Bloom outside near the playground.

"This is definitely...weird?" I asked before reaching into my pocket to pull out a cigarette to smoke. Talking humanized ponies, magic and mythical creatures, civilization, and nature. You would think this was all a dream you would think of after reading books about life in the past. Though I suppose pinching myself multiple times would make me believe that this is all real. I suppose I should be questioning this kind of...I don't even know what to call this, but I'll take this place over going back to earth and dealing with the people from On High, Natalia, or the accessories being...wait...my accessory!

The thought never occurred to me, but seeing how I'm no longer part of the system for sinners, I can get away with a lot of things. Like being able to recreate the accessory that I lost back in New York. I soon opened my P.D.P. to pull up a digital screen and decided to look further into the matter of the off-limit area. Lo and behold, the locks that were placed on it were removed as I grinned in excitement.

"Oh, I am going to have a lot of fun with this." I brought up the files of my accessory. To my surprise, it looks like I can recreate my accessory, though it's going to take about three days and about half of the Ramosa materials I collected back on earth. Well having an A.I. a partner can be helpful in case something happens to me and I can't get to my P.D.P. As I was typing in the process to have my P.D.P. recreating my accessory, I heard a pair of footsteps coming from the right of me.

“Don’t you know smoking is bad for your health?” said a familiar voice. I looked over to my right to see Apple Bloom and what I could guess are her friends seeing how they were hiding behind her.

“It’s not a real cigar, it's electronic to make it look like it’s real,” I said as I touched the top part of it to show them. “Quite handy for those who want to smoke something that doesn't cause lung cancer. I take it those are your friends hiding behind you?”

“Yeah, these are my best friends. Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle.” She said pointing at the white unicorn with a light purple & light lavender mane wearing a dress; the orange pegasus with a magenta mane wearing an orange shirt and blue shorts. I just simply waved at them until Sweetie Belle asked me something.

“So…...is it true?”

“What’s true?”

“You defeated a dragon all by yourself,” answered Scootaloo. “From what we heard from our sisters, they said that you beat a dragon single hoofenly. So is it true or not?” I turned my attention to the digital screen I had up and pulled up an image of me defeating the dragon. Specifically, me standing on top of his head without the blood showing. This got the two of them looking at me in both shock and amazement.

"Wait, what kind of magic is that?" Sweetie Belle asked as she looked me up and down. "You aren't a unicorn...are you?"

"Of course not. She's a bat pony." Scootaloo said before doing the same and looking at me up and down. "Are you?"

"I'm a bat pony. This is just some highly advanced technology from where I came from."

"Where did you come from?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Prison," I answered as I noticed the surprised look on Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle's faces. "I prefer not to go into detail about it, let's just say I was wrongfully placed in jail and served my time there. So you don't have to worry about me doing anything that's evil or something."

"Um...okay?" Scootaloo said as she and Sweetie Belle moved in closer to Apple Bloom as if using her as a shield.

“So what’s up? Do you need something from me?” I said before making the screen disappear.
“Well, I just wanted you to see my friends, and was hoping we could hang out with you?” Apple Bloom asked.

“Not to sound like a jerk or anything, and I don’t mind you three hanging out with me. But why don’t you hang out with the other kids in your class?” Judging by their flinching and disgruntled looks on their faces, I pretty much hit a touchy subject. “Let me guess, you three are the odd kids in the classroom?”

“We’re not odd! We just go on crusading to find our cutie mark…...which sometimes gets the town almost destroyed…...a lot,” said Scootaloo who was blushing in embarrassment.

“Okay…question. What the hell is a cutie mark?” I asked and in turn, they looked at me like I just insulted them. “What?”

“You don’t know what a cutie mark is!?” asked Apple Bloom to which I shook my head. “How can you not know what a cutie mark is? It’s a mark that you get when you finally find your special talent.”

“How can you tell that you get your so-called ‘cutie mark’?”

“They appear on your flank.”

"...Wait seriously?" I asked, which caused me to stretch my pants slightly to see if what she said was true. To my surprise, I didn't have one. Guess it would make sense that I didn't have one seeing how I don't know what my special talent is. "Huh, guess I don't have a cutie mark...You think I would get one with the stuff I've been doing."

"Wait, you don't have a cutie mark?" Apple Bloom asked as I shook my head.

"How old are you?" Scootaloo asked.

"Seventeen," I answered, which caused her and Sweetie Belle to look at each other for a moment before the young unicorn spoke.

“So you’re a former prisoner with skills of that of an expert royal guard pony,” Scootaloo said as I simply nodded. “Do you work for anypony?”

“I doubt anypony would hire me. Especially with what I did to the dragon on the mountain.” I said as the three of them huddled together for some kind of little meeting. Seconds later. The one named Sweetie Belle walked up to me and offered some gold coins.

“Would you like to join our club?” asked Sweetie Belle. “We can’t pay you as well as how Celestia does with her guards, but we could-.”

“Let me stop you there kid. I’ll join your little… what's the name of the club anyway?”

“We’re the Cutie Mark Crusaders!” They said in union which caused me to cover my ears. I mean really, if they screamed at the top of their lungs they could break glass.

“Okay…anyway, I’ll join your club free of charge.”

“You will?” Apple Bloom asked as I nodded.

“Might as well, mainly because I get the feeling you girls will need someone to get you out of trouble or patch you up if you get hurt.”

“Oh come on, we don't hurt ourselves that bad...right?” asked Scootaloo as she looked over at Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle, who looked off to the side as a means to avoid eye contact with her.

“I guess that answers my question-” Before I could finish my sentence, I was hit in the face by a water balloon. “What the fuck!?” I yelled as I looked up to see who threw the water balloon at me. Looking around I saw two earth ponies laughing as if what they did was funny. From the way they were dressed, those must be Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon that Cheerlie called on when they were making rude comments during my Q&A segment in the class.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't the blank flanks club," said Diamond Tiara.

"Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, what's your problem? You hit our newest member of the club," said Scootaloo pointing to me.

"Ew, you got that thing to join your club?”

“You got that bloodsucker to join your club?” said Silver Spoon pointing out the way I look. “You do realize that she's a bat pony, right? She's going to suck your blood in your sleep.”

"Which is a bad idea to do seeing how their blood would taste bad. You might end up dying from drinking blank flank blood."

"...Okay who are you two and why shouldn't I kick your...flanks into the ground?" I asked as the two girls stood in front of us.

"If you must know bloodsucker. I am Diamond Tiara."

"And I am Silver Spoon." She said before flipping her hair to the side. "We're the richest and most popular ponies in Ponyville."

"Okay...never heard of you two," I said which caused them both to laugh.

"Well of course you would’ve never heard of us. A commoner like yourself wouldn't even know what a rich pony looks like if they hit you in the face." Diamond Tiara said as she eyed me up and down. "What's a bloodsucker like you doing in a place like this?"

"Yeah, shouldn't you be sleeping in a dark cave or something?" Silver Spoon asked before sticking her head a bit towards me before sniffing the air and recoiling back. "Ew, no wonder you're in this place. You must have smelled the country bumpkin due to her smell like rotten apples."

"You take that back!" Apple Bloom yelled as she glared at Silver Spoon.

"Why? Every pony knows that you smell like rotten apples. I bet you roll around in it every day seeing how you live on that filthy farm of yours."

"...Alright, I see where this is going." I thought as I moved in between the two groups. Once there, I turn my attention to Apple Bloom and the others with a smile on my face. "You girls might want to stand back."

"What are you planning on doing?" Apple Bloom asked as I turned around and began walking towards Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.

(Third P.O.V)

“Hey Apple Bloom, is Adelle okay?” Sweetie Belle whispered as the farm pony spoke up.
“Of course not. Keep in mind they called her a bloodsucker, which is a racial slur from what we learned in class a month ago. It also doesn't help that they threw a water balloon at her."

“Should we try and stop her?”

“You want to try and stop the mare that took down a dragon?" Apple Bloom said as Sweetie Belle shook her head. "Plus, we're not the ones who'll get in trouble for fighting Tiara and Spoon...this time."

"I suppose, but wouldn't her getting in trouble mean that we'll get in trouble as well?" Apple Bloom asked as Scootaloo shrugged.

"We'll keep what she does a secret." She said before noticing the bat pony talking to Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. She notices the three of them exchanging words with each other before noticing Diamond Tiara's face burning bright red as a loud slap could be heard from where the CMC was standing. The sound caused the trio to flinch before seeing the bat pony touch her face. In a matter of seconds, pegasus noticed Adelle cracking her knuckles before delivering a hard punch to Tiara's face, which in turn caused her to hit the ground hard with a loud thud.

"Holy Celestia!" Apple Bloom yelled as she was taken by surprise by the sudden punch to the rich pony's face.

"Wow, I didn't think she would punch Tiara like that," Scootaloo said as she tried her best not to burst out laughing. She then looked over at Adelle who was beginning to chase after Silver Spoon with a metal bat that appeared out of thin air. "....I think we should let her do her own thing."

"We can't let her do that!" Sweetie Belle yelled before chasing after Adelle and the others.

(A few hours of screaming and seeing two ponies running later)

(Adelle’s P.O.V)

Perhaps I went a bit too far with the whole, knocking them down a peg or two. Maybe when they ask me to stop breaking their legs was a clear sign that I should've stopped...but then again, when you get slapped in the face, all bets are off the table...I mean I didn't give them permanent damage, just maybe leaving them unable to walk for about a month or two.

"I get that what they said and did...offensive." Sweetie Belle said as she looked up at the flagpole of the school to see a battered-up Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon tied up and hanging from the pole. "But isn't this a bit too much?"

"She slapped me in the face. What do you think was going to happen?" I asked before looking up at my work. "They're lucky I didn't do more than just cripple them for a month or two."

“Wait, you didn't break their legs because of that racial slur about you being a bloodsucker?” Scootaloo asked as I raised an eyebrow at her.

"That's a racial slur?"

“Well yeah, didn't you know that?"

"No...wait what other racial slurs have they been saying to me?"

"....If I tell you, I get the feeling you would do more to Tiara and Spoon."

"What? No, I would never do more than what I did to them." I said which caused the trio to deadpan at me. "You don't believe me?"

“After what you did to those two, we're implied to not believe you.” Apple Bloom said as I shrugged.

"Okay, fair point. I would've done much worse with the information you would've given me on the spot." I said before hearing the sound of footsteps. Turning around I saw Twilight, her friends, and Cheerlie making their way over to where I and the Cutie Mark Crusaders were standing. Their attention was focused on me for a moment before looking up at the flagpole as they gasped in horror at the two battered-up ponies

“Hey, how's it going?” I said while giving them a fake smile.

"Don't you "Hey, how's it going" jerk. Why are Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon hanging from the flagpole!?” yelled Applejack.

“Okay before you say anything or try to attack like last time, I would like to say that I didn’t start anything….this time.”

“If you are telling the truth, then why are there two fillies hanging from their panties on the flagpole like a flag?” asked Ms. Cheerilee.

“They hit me with a water balloon and call me a bloodsucker,” I said pointing to the red handprint still on my face.

"It's true, we can testify to that." Apple Bloom said as her friends nodded in agreement.

“And you think doing that to those poor fillies was warranted!?” asked Rarity. "For Celestia's sake, you could've just walked away and gotten Cheerliee to handle it."

“I could've, but I doubt she would've done something about it. I mean given the way they were acting, I bet she would've given them a stern talking and given them some kind of homework assignment. Which wouldn't stop them from acting the way they were acting.”

“While I can understand the anger, that's still no excuse for what you did,” Twilight said as she walked over to me and placed a hand on my shoulder. "You need to be the bigger pony in this matter. Especially seeing how you're older than them."

“I'm only a year older than them," I said before taking Twilight's hand off my shoulder. "And being the bigger mare is overrated.” With that, I was about to walk and head back home. That is until Applejack lassoed a rope onto my arm and started to pull me over to her.

“And where do you think you’re going?”

“Back home, where else.”

“You’re not going anywhere until you apologize to Diamond Tiara & Silver Spoon for what you did to them.”

“I don’t apologize to bratty children. Maybe this will teach them a lesson for thinking they’re better than anyone else.” I pulled on the rope causing Applejack to stagger a bit. “Now I suggest you let me go or else I’ll kick your flank like last time.”

“Applejack, maybe you should let her go,” Apple Bloom suggested, but was ignored as Applejack simply pulled harder on the rope. As she was pulling, I summoned a small dagger into my hands and cut the rope, causing Applejack to fall on her flank. I couldn't help but let a small chuckle escape my lips from seeing her fall like that.

“What’s so funny about jerkface?” asked Rainbow Dash who looked like she was ready to fight me.

“Nothing that you shouldn’t worry about, idiot.” The moment I said that the pegasus known as Rainbow Dash zoomed off and headed toward me in an attempt to tackle me to the ground. I quickly reached into my pocket and pulled out a flash grenade to set it off in the direction Rainbow Dash was heading. The moment she was close, a white flash burst within the area we were in as the pegasus let out a loud yell before falling to the ground. The moment she was on the ground, I quickly made my way over to her, pulled out my binding thorns, and pinned her to the ground. As she was pinned, I soon grabbed her wings and began to move them a bit.
I looked up at Twilight and the others who were slowly recovering from the flash grenade I set off as they were taken by surprise by the state Rainbow Dash was in. I soon turned my attention to Rainbow Dash who was struggling to break free from the binding thorns. As a means to get her to stop, I applied pressure to her wings by moving them in the opposite direction to where I could break them with ease.

“Idiot. You may have gotten me last with that move, but I won’t fall for the same move again.” I said while examining her wings. "Your wings are what makes you the fastest in Equestria, right? Well then, how about we make you into an earth pony for a few months or so?”

“Wait What!?” I started to pull on Rainbow Dash's wings as she started to scream in horror at the fact she thought I was gonna rip her wings off. I wasn’t gonna rip her wings, just break them so she would be earthbound for a couple of months. As I was about to break her wings, I felt someone trying to pull me off from Rainbow Dash. I looked behind to see Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo pulling on my tail as a means to get me to stop.

“Adelle, stop!” Apple Bloom yelled.

“Why should I stop? She and your sister attacked me first, so I have every right to attack back. Breaking this idiot mare's wings should teach her a lesson not to attack some pony." I said before applying more pressure to Rainbow Dash's wings. "Keeping her on the ground should mellow her out a bit."

"I get that you're angry, but doing this isn't going to help anypony." Apple Bloom said which caused me to put less pressure on the pegasus's wings. "You just got out of prison for a crime, right? You wouldn't want to go back again because of this...right?"

"Plus, we did hire you to be our bodyguard and join our club. So having you in jail again would be a problem for us." Scootaloo added.

“P-Please, don’t break Rainbow Dash's wings,” said Sweetie Belle, giving me an innocent look as if on the verge of crying. I stared at the trio for a moment before everything started to change around me. Instead of seeing Apple Bloom and her friends behind me, I saw three kids in ragged clothing.

"Please...don't kill our papa." The girl said as looked down to see that instead of holding Rainbow Dash, I was holding a bruised-up and blood-covered man wearing tattered clothing. I can feel my heart racing due to remembering this image I was seeing as I released my hold on the man as he dropped. I soon looked around the area to see that I was within the city when I had last night's dream. Bodies riddled with bullet holes, stab wounds, and limbs were scattered across the ground. I can feel my heart racing along with my hyperventilating.

"Why did you hurt us? We didn't do anything wrong." said the boy next to the girl as I took a step backward.

"I-I was just...I...I..."

"You're a monster! Leave our papa alone you freak!" said the girl on the right next to the boy. The more I see this, the more I begin to hyperventilate. The moment I took another step back, I felt my footing give way as I fell backward onto my back. The moment the back part of my head hit the ground, I found myself back to reality as Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo were standing above me with worried expressions on their faces.

“You okay?” Apple Bloom asked as I felt my breathing and heart rate slowly returning to normal as I pulled myself up a bit.

"W-What happened?" I asked.

"You started to slowly back away from us after Sweetie Belle asked you to not break Rainbow Dash's wings. Then you mumbled something, tripped over my scooter, and fell onto the ground."

"....Okay....what about the others?"

"They're currently trying to get Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon from off the flagpole." Sweetie Belle said as I looked over to see Twilight and the others carefully getting the two fillies off the flagpole without breaking any more bones than what was already broken. "Twilight wanted us to make sure you were okay and inform her when you were okay to stand." She said as I noticed she was about to call for Twilight, but I quickly covered her mouth to prevent her from speaking.

"You guys wouldn't have a place that's private or secluded?" I asked as I heard Apple Bloom speak up.

"We have a clubhouse. It's mostly used for meetings to figure out what we could get our cutie marks in, hang out after school, or sleepovers." The farm pony said as sighed in relief.

“I...need to sleep there for tonight," I said before noticing the confused expressions on Apple Bloom and her friends' faces.

“How come?”

“Because after today, I'm not in the mood to be questioned or get into another fight with Applejack or Rainbow Dash," I said before slowly beginning to stand up. "I...I just...just need a quiet place to stay in." The girls looked at each other for a moment as they nodded. They soon looked over at me and motioned for me to follow them. I nodded and followed them to the clubhouse while doing my best not to make too much sound to draw the attention of Twilight and the others.