Los Diablos: A New Beginning

"Bring the bird down here James", I shouted over the sound of rotors. He gave me the thumbs up and lowered the heli on the ground slowly and easy as to not fuck it up. I hopped out just before we touched the ground and landed with a thud. "Alright, lets chill out 'till Celestia gives us another assignment or the royal guards decide to pay up for another bounty". We had another agreement with Celestia's guards, you see, they go out into the forest and they do a bit of recon for her. Even though we have the Everfree on complete lockdown, they had to make up it seem legit that the curds still did their job. However, if we weren't around, a manticore or another predator would chew 'em up like gum.

And so, they've decided to work out another deal beside the one Celestia made with us, kill a manticore,   bring it's fur as proof, and  get a nice wad of five grand. I know, it's not the best option for cash, but if we don't have a job and get bored, it's nice to have something to do for a bit of money. They do have paper money here, similar to ours. They've mostly been paying cash to us, but since I've decided to go public, I might need to get a bank account soon. I'm not sure how everyone will react, but it's like my mom always said, 'primero comemos, entonces lo demás'. That means, 'first we eat, then we do everything else'. And I'm hungry as fuck and I can't think straight, I need to head home and get some food.

I walked down the steps off the helipad and walked down the B.O.E. (base of operations). It consists of a small helipad like I just mentioned. The big building with a radar dish, this place is a base left over from when we humans resided here on Earth. Most of this place was in ruins, but we made it work. We repaired the systems that connected us to the satellites that help us to watch what is happening globally. When we started the business again, Celeatia decided that we need a better place to live than in tents in the forest. So she hired some architects to build decent homes for us. I wanted to pay for mine as I'm sure the rest of my team wanted to. But she insisted and payed for our fucking amazing homes. They look like the mansion that the character, Michael Townley had from GTA V. Spanish architecture style at its finest.

I opened my door and headed inside to fix up some tequila, I don't want to be stereotypical or anything, but I loved it. The strong content of the alcohol in it doesn't bother me, well, until I'm drunk that is. That's what I plan to do right now too. Why? Because this marks the 7th anniversary of when I was torn from a decent life and thrown into one of hell. I was fucked, my friends were fucked, and my loved ones were fucked. That bastard took everything from me, I'd spent five years hunting him down. While on the side I collected cash to get the equipment to go out there, find him, and kill him. And I did, I shot him.

I did feel a bit of closure in the end. But the feeling of knowing that everything was taken from me because one man decided to fuck it all up for me. Fine, you can fuck me over,  but don't complain when I come back even harder to hunt your ass down. I searched every corner of the globe for him, to hunt him like the dog he was.

I opened the bottle cap and took a deep swig of the familiar and cozy feeling of tequila. I  fought he bottle down and sat down on the couch and switched on the t.v. Since we're connected to the satellites, I could tune in to tv shows before everything went to shit. They had recordings that they didn't bother to delete. Which I'm glad they didn't, otherwise I'd be bored outa my fucking mind. I brought the bottle to my lips and took another swig and stared blindly at the screen.

A few hours passed and I was nearly done with the bottle and my head was swimming around."whoah, I'm so fucked". I turned the remote to the tv off so I could head upstairs and go to bed. But I fell back on the couch and passed out with the bottle in my hand. At least I'd still get a good nights sleep.

Carlos's POV

I got a knock on my door and got up to answer it, I opened the door to find Luna standing there with a look of confusion. "Luna"?

She looked up at me, "oh, sorry Carlos but I was wondering if I could speak to Gonzalo about the new section if the deal that Celestia put in their contract".

I made an 'oh' look and replied, "yeah I know, and I understand". I looked towards Gonzalo's house across the street and kept telling Luna why she couldn't. "But you can't, its one of those days again". She made a pouting look which almost made me chuckle, so damn childish sometimes.

"Yes, of course. I understand", Luna got up to fly away but I put a hand to her shoulder to stop her.

"It's ok, you can tell me", I swinger my head to the living room. "I can tell Gonzalo when he wakes up from being a huge fucking drunk". She giggled and I led her to have a seat on the couch.

Feeling obliged I offered her a drink, "you want anything to drink at all"?

She shook her head, "no thank you, I shouldn't be here long".

I nodded and took a seat beside her and payed close attention.

She opened her mouth to speak, "if anything were to happen during your introduction, we feel that it'd be best if Twilight and her friends come over often to keep you company". Then she smiled brightly, "or she could help to show you around Ponyville, it's such a peaceful town".

I listened closely, I'm ok with it, but Gonzalo might be a bit annoyed that the mares'll be coming around more often than he expected. "I'm fine with it Luna, and I bet everyone else is too". She smiled gently, thinking that it went well quick. "But I can't speak for Gonzalo, I don't know how he'll react to this. He prefers to be alone".

She pondered this and came up with a solution, "we'll give him permission for free drinks at any bar if he chooses to accept this offer".

I thought about it, Gonzalo was a huge drinker. He made it his hobby, he'd always have a drink, at least one glass a day. But that's the minimum. The most I've seen him drink, it was two whole bottles of bourbon. He had wiped out in a hooker that night, yeah, this was before we ended up here.

"Sure, I'll send you a letter on what he decides to proceed with in terms of our agreement", she smiled and nodded.

"Fantastic, I'll be around whenever any of you need to reach me and the element bearers will be here in a couple of days to officially and properly meet and get to know you all".

I opened the door and held it for her, "oooh, such a gentlecolt".

I grunted, not this again with her damn games, "it's just the way we were all raised princess. We have to treat a woman, or I'm sorry, a mare, more properly than ourselves".

She beamed at that answer, "that's a great train of thought to have. You're parents taught you all well".

I nodded and she took off into the air.

Gonzalo's POV

I woke up with drowsy eyes, refusing to completely open so I can see where I am. After a few minutes they finally opened and I could see that I was laying on the couch, drooling with the empty bottle still in my hand. My stomach growled, shit. "I'm still hungry", it's alright. I got up and stumbled into the kitchen. I opened the fridge and pulled out the first thing I found, some ham and cheese, "yum".

I giggled and shut the door. I walked upstairs, nearly tripping and got to the balcony I had just outside of my room. I roughly opened the door and sat roughly on my chair. I put the cheese on the ham and took a bite. Not bad.

But after I was finished I was getting craves and needed to relax. I pulled out a cigar and leaned back. I put it in my mouth, then reached into my pockets and pulled out a lighter. It was one to those old-school lighters that could refill in fuel and that cap up on top. I flicked the cap off and brought my hand in front of the cigar and flicked the thing until it sparked and lit the cigar. I clinked the lighter off and put it back into my pocket. I brought my right hand up and took a long drag and puffed an ice smoke ring out into the fresh night air. I don't know why I found it funny, but I giggled a bit and felt childish. But when you're drunk, you don't care about what you're laughing at.

I took another drag and puffed out nice and gently to relax and to feel calm. But then the memories, the people I lost and loved. The innocent ones I hurt for money. All came flowing back to me like a steady stream, I desperately took more drags to calm down, but it was no use.

"Why did you leave me"?

I knew who's voice that was, "no, no, no, no, no, no,". I tried to deny hearing it, "I don't know what I'm hearing, go away"!!! But she was persistent.

"You could've told me that they were after you and not just you after them. Why?".

I took more drags, only now, my hand was shaking with every drag I took. I let out a drag with a sigh. "GODDAMMIT!!!!!", this is all my fucking fault that those people had to die. The emotions came over me like a tsunami and washed over me with so much power. It was too much to handle, I broke down and fell off the chair crying. I took the cigar and put it out and back into the box.

I went to the bed not thinking or saying anything. I think that I'm done with today, I need to move on with tomorrow, I just can't deal wth this right now. I took my clothes off and lazily threw them across the room and hopped into bed.

"Por favor, señor! No lo hagas!!!".

I tried all night, but soon, I finally started to drift off to sleep, I need it so bad I can't listen to this. You know, everyone back home? They called me a bunch of things because of the reputation I had as a merc. One of the worst ones was that I would do anything, for cash. That's not true, if I kill someone,with a bullet to the head for example. They're not suffering, that's my code. But the things Murad did to people, that's the person those people should've been persecuting, not me.

I'm not going to lie, I'm not a hero. I never will be. I'm just a bad guy who kills even worse guys and occasionally performs massive heists and drug deals. I do, participate in my career for cash, but come on. I have no other option, the clean world escaped me the day I was torn from it.

"All of you fuckheads in my head can fuck right the fuck off", I said to no one in the room. "I'm going to go to bed and even your wailing won't stop me". I hope.

I'm not sure what exactly I have to gain here, besides the money. What is there? Basic Info that was given to me about Equestria, the guards, the element bearers, and some of the most classified docs around here. But to be honest they're not that classified. I could tell what they'd be doing in closed sorts based off of a conversation with them. But the money is good.

Whatever...I'm just going to sleep this shit off...