Back To Work

Back To Work
Chapter 3: Message Sent Blood Received

By: Major Frostwing

-3 Days After The Message-

I was standing on my balcony staring out at the skyscrapers of Manehatten as I watched the sun rise. I gently swirled my coffee as my phone rang in my pocket. I slid my phone out answering it. "They sent their message didn't they." I stated as I took a slow sip of my coffee.

"Yes." I heard Celestia answer as I continued to look out at the sun rise. "We are sending you the image via Dragon fire." She said as I waited. A puff of green smoke appeared before me turning into an image. I snatched it out of the air looking at it.

"I have it." I said as I glared at the image. "You can't see what's in front of you." I smiled letting out a short chuckle.

"Celestia this group are they a minor crew or some big shot?" I asked as I continued to look at the image.

"This is a minor crew in Manehatten but they are tied in with the mafia. This small crew were in charge of forgeries and a little into the counterfeiting." Celestia answered as I cracked my neck.

"Celestia... What is the location of the boss?" I asked as there was only silence.

"Jon you know the rules have changed The Fist of Equestria isn't supposed to have free reign anymore... Not after that incident." I rolled my eyes.

"I'm not going to kill him just the opposite. I am going to use him to send a message." I turned back into the room to see Night getting out of bed. "So the location if you would." Silence rang through the line as Celestia thought over my request.

"There is a bistro in downtown Manehatten... Prime Cuts Bistro... The leader's name is-"

"His name is Don Dirty Gains." I said as I hung up sliding my phone back into my pocket. I downed my cup of coffee walking back into the room. "Get dressed we got work to do." I said pouring myself another cup of coffee.

"Any other time you can barely get up at a decent time but when it involves this type of work you are always up before dawn." Night groaned out as she flashed a dark purple changing clothes. "You have some weird priorities...."

"Night. We are going to meet with Don Dirty Gains. We need his help sending a message." I stated bringing the coffee over to her. "We leave in five minutes." I flexed my magic as black fire engulfed me as I looked like a normal Stallion of this world with black fur and a dark purple mane.

"Understood." Night said downing her cup of coffee. We both as one left the room closing up. We would not return to this room and instead move somewhere else.

The walk to the bistro was not difficult walking in was a different story.

"Oh honey isn't this place just beautiful?" Night asked as I looked down at her with a smile raising my hand as my magic darkened the room locking the doors and windows and silencing the room.

"Indeed it is." I said turning to look at the stallions in the room. "Now then Gentlemen. Where is Don Dirty Gains?" I asked as Night stepped away from me. The stallions laughed at me and my fist tightened as lightning arced up it.

"HEY! Low! Take out this trash will you?" one of them ordered as I saw a stallion pull out his gun about to take aim at me only for me to flick my wrist. The spell gun was ripped out of his hand towards me I caught it looking it over carefully.

"You really expect to take me out with this cheap knockoff?" I asked as I held the gun between my two hands. "Pathetic." I muttered as I pressed my hands together crushing the gun. "Now where is Don Dirty Gains?" I asked again only for all of them to get out of their seats drawing their weapons on me. I only let out a sigh.

"Don't make me ask again." I said as I held up my hand before slowly pushing down on them with my magic.

"Boss what's going on?" One of them asked as he was being pushed to the ground. One of them tried to raise their gun only for the force on them to be increased.

"Oh I can answer that." I said with a smile. "This is a little spell I had a certain person teach me." I said as I walked forward crouching down to look the stallion in the eyes. "You all can call it gravity magic. A very very forbidden form of magic." I smiled as I set my hand above his head. "Now where is he?" I asked as the force increased.

"Stop." A stallion said as he walked out of the back room. "I am Don Dirty Gains. Now what do you need of me?"

"I need your help sending a message." I said as I flexed my magic moving all of the guns into my storage. Once all the weapons were taken I released my hold on them.

"And why should we help you?" Don said as I flicked my wrist letting the image appear. I set the image on the table motioning for him to look at it.

"Very simple... I want the man who sent this message." I said as I watched him carefully.

"How did you get this image?" Don asked as I only smiled.

"Because that little image is meant for me. Now I don't have a fucking problem with any of you. I just want the fucker that sent this message. He stole something from me and I want his body at my feet. In order for me to do that I need you to tell me where every single base is and which ones have been hit. I will handle everything. Now let's get to work but remember one thing Don." I stated as I wrapped my fingers around his throat as I formed my own gun. "If you fucking betray me. I will come back and burn everything you know and love to the fucking ground. You got that?"

"C-Crystal..." Don Dirty Gains wheezed out as I smiled.

"Now then gentlemen. We have a copy cat to catch so let us get right into it." I said as I released the Don.

It was a few hours later and I was hiding in one of the Mafia's bases. I predicted that this was the spot that they would hit and boy was I right. Only 20 minutes of me getting into position a small group of 5 entered guns at the ready only to lower them in confusion.

"Do we have the right spot? This should be where they launder their money so where are they?" One of them asked as I slinked closer via the shadows.

"There is no doubt this is the place. Fan out and hunt them down." The one who I guessed was the leader ordered I smiled as I flexed my magic slamming the doors closed behind them ans I proceeded to lock them with a barrier.

"What the fuck is going on?" One asked as they began to aim around the room.

"Keep your eyes peeled we aren't alone." The leader said as I raised up in the center of their little circle.

"You never was." I whispered as I quickly melded back into the shadows moving to another spot. They all whirled on the spot I was before looking around. "I see you all got my message." I said as I continued to move. "I got yours."

"SHOW YOURSELF!" The leader yelled as I walked out of the shadows fully corrupted.

"So my good sirs. I need to borrow the five of you for something very... Important." I said as I rolled my wrists.

"Kill him." The leader ordered as they all raised their weapons only to see they were gone.

"You think I like rolling my wrists for no reason?" I asked as I smiled. "Just as unicorns use their horns for spells I use my hands." I raised my hand before lowering it slowly pushing they straight to the ground. "It allows me to do some very intricate spells." I said as I walked forward stopping at one of the grunts.

"Boss what the hell is going on?" He asked as I knelt down grabbing him by his hair.

"I'm the one who asks the questions." I said looking down at him. "Now who is your leader?" I asked as the man remained silent. I rolled my eyes pulling out a knife holding it in front of his eye so he could see it very clearly. "Don't make me ask again." I threatened as I moved the blade dangerously close to his eye. He began to panic which only made me smile.

"I... I don't know." He answered as I continued to stare down at him.

"Ok." I said calmly as I moved the knife away from his eye. He let out a sigh of relief before I jammed the blade right through his eye socket and slammed his face down forcing the blade deep into his head. I slammed his face into the concrete over and over again.

"WHAT THE FUCK MAN HE DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING!" Another grunt yelled as I flicked my eyes to him.

"I know." I said getting to my feet moving over to the grunt who just yelled at me. "Since he didn't know I got rid of him. He was useless after all." I said as I knelt down picking up his head by his hair. "Who is your leader?" I asked with a smile. I saw the fear in his eyes and it just made me so giddy.

"Dude what the fuck is wrong with you?" He asked as I rolled my eyes dropping his head before taking hold of his arm moving it so he could see his hand.

"I got pulled out of retirement because of what your leader has done." I said as I conjured my pistol aiming at his hand. "If you like your fingers I would start talking." I pulled back the hammer emphasizing my point.

"None of us know his name. We are just initiates man don't kill us!" I cocked an eyebrow tilting my head in confusion. That's when I pulled the trigger blowing off his fingers.

"Sorry I must be losing my hearing in my old age. All I heard was. 'Please blow off my fingers.'." I said as he stared at his hand mouth moving uselessly. "You are useless to me." I got to my feet shooting him in the back of the head. "And since almost all of you are initiates you have just became useless to my cause. Sorry boys but I got a big fish to fry." I rolled my wrist as spires of darkness raised from the ground impaling the last two grunts before lifting them into the air shredding their bodies in the most brutal fashion.

"Now then." I said as I grabbed the leader by his hair lifting him up before dragging him over to a metal chair. I forced him in the chair before sealing him into it's confines. "You and me are going to have a very fun chat about this leader of yours."

"I will not break monster. I have taken an oath and you do not have the strength to break me." I smiled to him getting uncomfortably close to his face.

"Show me this unbreakable will you got boyo. I got all the time in the world to break your mind and have all the fun I want." I glanced over at the wings that sat on his back before smiling. "You know I used to have a friend who was a pegasus." I said as I walked over to the wing extending it with a low whistle. "She told me that a sprain was almost crippling in terms of pain." I said as I wrapped my magic around the bones in his wing.

"What are you going on abo-" He never did get to finish his question as I crushed my hand into a fist shattering the bones in the wing. He let out a scream of pain as I moved the wing around causing as much pain as possible.

"I wonder if they can fix that?" I asked out loud before I heard him go silent. "Oh no we can't have you passing out like this." I said as I used my magic to bring him back from his sleep. "I am going to force you to stay awake until I get my answers. Let's see how long the unbreakable will lasts against the unyielding hammer." I said as I forced the wing to compress on it's self. "I'll give it a few days at most." I smiled as I got back to work.

38 hours. That's how long it took for me to get the answers I wanted. He was a lot of fun especially when I fed him his own fingers. That had to be the most fun in my opinion... I'm really fucked in the head ain't I? I shrugged as I finished up writing my message inside the building and stringing up the bodies just right. It looked kind of like a Christmas tree just with more blood and gore.

I smiled as I picked up the paint can writing up my little message with a sick twisted smile. "Run little Copy Cat. You can't escape the original." I wrote before underlining the words "Copy Cat and Original." They will come here when they notice the team hasn't returned. and I will be gone by then. I smiled as I pulled out my camera taking a picture of the display as it was printed out from the camera. I smiled as I shook it out waiting for the Polaroid was done drying before writing a new message on it. This one will go to the copy cat when I deliver it.

"Can't wait to take my blades back you fuck." I wrote out before sliding the picture into my pocket. I pulled up the camera taking another picture waving it out before pulling out my cell phone. I typed out the number raising it to my ear.

"Status." I heard Luna ask as I only smiled.

"I got a name and some bases that you guys can deal with but as for me... Well I got a certain copy cat to bury." I said as I continued to shake out the picture. "How are the kids?" I asked as I looked over my display.

"Well behaved. Though a few of them have been playing pranks on my sister and myself. Nothing bad. They miss you." I smiled fondly at that.

"I know. Are they in the room?" I asked as I lifted the picture in my magic.

"No Twilight is reading them a bedtime story. Why?"

"A new message to be sent out to this copy cat. I am sending it now." I said as the picture disappeared from my hand. I waited a few seconds before I heard the sound of retching. "I think I did a good job." I said with a smile as I moved out of the building I was in.

"how many bodies are here?" I heard Luna ask as I continued to smile.

"Only five Luna. Crop it down and send the message to the newspapers make some big spectacle of it. Make it seem like this 'Serial Killer' is a threat to national security. I honestly don't fucking care but there is one thing else. Their group name is Fists of Purity. A stupid fucking name if you ask me but whatever.

"You know you were not to act outside the law." Luna said as I let out a chuckle.

"Luna you have known me for over 300 years. I play by my rules and my rules say one simple thing. Protect my home and that is what I am going to do. Now if you excuse me I have a letter to deliver."

"Wait what do you mea-" I hung up my phone sliding it into my pocket before making my way to my new hotel. Tomorrow I will make my way to the next town. That will be my final destination.

"I think it is ironic that you chose to come to my own backyard little Copy Cat... Gives me a good reason to kill you besides the shit you already did." I smiled as turned down an alley disappearing in a flash of purple.