As a child, Twilight Sparkle was taken from her home in the dead of night. The agency that captured her had deemed her a person of interest. But she was normal, there was no hidden ability, there was no world shaking fate resting on her shoulders, there was only the need and ambition of the few fine folks who ran Equestria... Into the ground. And they had just made a terrible mistake.

With his home destroyed and his family scattered, Spike wandered the streets and back alleys of Old Canterlot for years taking what jobs he could in order to provide for himself and only himself. But he had never forgotten what had happened to his family. He took no vows nor swore any oaths. He lived by the weight of his words and the power of his guns for those were the two things that would see him through to the end.