Back To Work

Back To Work
Chapter 2: Return

By: Major Frostwing

Night and myself had both arrived in Ponyville to a platoon of guards they were to be moved back to Canterlot and a new platoon was to take their place. I kept quiet as I stepped off of the train making my way to a place I hadn't visited in over 250 years.

I stepped through the gates of the Ponyville Cemetery only to see a small group of guards patrolling the grounds. I decided to stop one and get some answers. "Excuse me mind if I ask why there are so many guards patrolling the graveyard?" I asked as the guard looked me over with a small glare on his face.

"We have orders that no one is allowed in the graveyard until the culprit is found. I have to ask you to leave." He said as I rolled my eyes pulling out my badge showing it to him.

"What happened?" I asked again as the guard looked over my badge.

"Do you think I am a fool? I can see that this badge is a fake. Nice try though." The guard handed me my badge as I gave him a flat look.

"Fuck this." I said as I grabbed his head with my hands bringing it down as I brought my knee up knocking the guard out. I rolled my eyes walking over him making my way into the graveyard a few of the guards drew their weapons on me only for me to seize said weapons in my magic and crush them in my magic.

A few of the now disarmed guards charged me only to be brought down to the ground with my magic. I continued on my way before stopping at a single grave. The coffin was broken and unearthed. I stared down at the remains of the person who owned the grave. Night stood next to me staring at the name of the grave.

"Night send a message to Celestia. I will be launching a class 2 cataclysmic discharge of magic in the badlands... Also tell her when I find this perpetrator there will be no body." I activated my magic as I began my teleport. I glanced at the name one last time before teleporting.

"Here lies Red Line

Wife, Friend, Mother

May Your Soul Have Peace."

I disappeared in a flash of dark purple.

Celestia, Luna, Twilight, and the entirety of the orphanage were sitting at the table eating dinner when a message appeared before Celestia. Celestia looked over the message before closing her eyes sighing.

She quietly passed the message to Luna and Twilight. They each let out a sigh before turning in their chairs looking out to the horizon. If they looked hard enough they could see the edges of the badlands and that's when it happened. A bright flash of purple exploded to the sky. They each watched it for a few seconds before they pooled their magic together covering the entirety of the castle in a shield. The raw magic from the blast buffeted the shield and Twilight let out a grunt.

"I thought he said Class Two."

"He probably wanted Class Two but someone had desecrated something very important to him. Even we would do more in our rage." Luna said as the kids looked out seeing the large amounts of destruction in the distance.

"Princesses what happened?" Shine asked as she walked up to them.

"The tears of a very angry man have fallen." Celestia said as she continued to watch the explosion before it vanished. "And his warning is very clear... Run."

I stood in the smoking crater taking deep breaths as I tried to get my anger under control. It was a futile effort. "Night." I said as she appeared next to me. "I want this impostor found... and I want him found right now." I said as I turned to face her. "If not that I want a message sent." I walked out of the crater walking along the edge of said crater writing out my message it was bold and stated everything that needed to be said.

"I know what you did."

"Night take a bunch of pictures of this and send it to every single newspaper editor in Equestria... Send it to Princess Celestia. I want this to be national news. I don't care about the headline the one it is aimed at will know what this really means." I saw Night pull out a camera taking to the air. I turned my back to her doing something I hadn't done in years. I felt the corruption in me as my skin turned black as pitch. I rolled my neck cracking it as my hair turn light and wispy. I cocked my head looking right at the camera as Night snapped a few pictures.

There are two things this message stated. The first was very simple. "I know what you did and what you stole." The second was just as simple. "The real one is standing right here." If he thinks he is me this should piss him off. A copycat is pissed about more copycats. An original hates all copycats.

-Two Days Later-

A stallion was sitting in the dark basement of a two bit bar surrounded by others of like mind. They were all going over their next taget when another stallion rushed into the room holding a news paper in his hands. "Boss! Boss! We got a problem." The stallion said slamming the newspaper on the table.

The Stallion called Boss picked up the paper lifting it up to look it over. He cocked his eyebrow at the headline and image.

"A Threat To Equestria? Or Something Else?" The headline read as the image was of an almost pitch black man standing near the message that read "I know what you did." The stallion looked closely at the man before laughing.

"Really now Knee no need to be so scared it's just some impostor trying to be me. But just in case I want to accelerate the plan a little. Send our response to this copy cat" The stallion said as he tossed the paper behind him.

"At once Boss." a big stallion said as he threw on his cloak lifting a large black great-sword onto his back. "What kind of message do you want left?" The large stallion asked.

The Boss let out a hum of thought before snapping his fingers. "You can't see what's in front of you." The Boss said as the large stallion nodded.

"It will be done Boss." The large stallion left as the Boss steeple his fingers.

"The real Fist of Equestria died over 250 years ago... let's see what this copy cat can do." The boss whispered smiling to himself.