???'s Camp
Everfree Forest
Equestira
12:10 A.M. on April 16th
Princess Twilight Sparkle

Fluttershy and I set up camp out here in the Everfree because we were too far away to just walk back home. Fluttershy was a bit scared, and, to be honest, so was I, to an extent. We observed a small pony, about 15 years old or so, sleeping out in the most dangerous forest in Equestria. He must've been either very brave, or very stupid. I can't tell just yet. I was being consumed by the will to sleep, but I resisted. It was a futile effort, and I was knocked out in 5 minutes of the battle. Last thing I remember was hearing hoofsteps towards me.

My Camp
Everfree
Equestria
12:15 A.M. on April 16th
Assassin Nitro

I couldn't sleep. I had a bit of energy left, and I felt that someone was watching me. I waited until the feeling past, and wandered into the area where I felt it, which was behind me. I saw the two girls, laying on the ground, sleeping. They appeared to be watching me with... the Night Vision Goggles? The designs were the same to the plans I lost. Picking a pair up, I turned it on and placed it over my eyes. I instantly knew who's here. Twilight Sparkle, a purple alicorn, and Fluttershy, a yellow pegasus It must've fallen nearby Twilight and she must've messed around with it. I don't see a battery pack. I picked up Fluttershy, as she was the smaller of the two. Surprisingly, she didn't weigh that much. 'Oh, right,' I thought. 'I was falling much slower than the 9.81 meters per second squared of Mobius or Earth, so it's natural that I'm stronger out here. It's about...' I did some mental calculations as I brought Flutters to my camp. '...7.24 m/s2. At least, by some simple calculations. I need to test it later. But that's as close as I'll ever get without testing.' I brought Twilight, who felt about 25 pounds, back to camp. I settled them in, left the pair of NVG next to Fluttershy (I took them from her), and went back to sleep, content.

I woke up, and realized that the two ladies are still asleep. I checked my watch. 7:04 A.M. Good. I weaved past them, wishing I set them in another position, and headed north to town. I carved a logo onto a tree near the camp, and did the same thing over the next couple trees, about 500 meters from each other. Content, I walked into town with my satchel of silver and shopping list. I just hope two things. One: the girls at base don't wake up soon, and two: the school is accepting students in April. Gotta make up a story on that one. Ah, I'll make it up soon enough.

Meanwhile, with Fluttershy...

"Mmn..."

I remembered falling asleep last night in the... The Everfree... I picked myself up, and noticed the pole with a flag on it. I nudged Twilight to wake her up.

"Mmm... 5 more minutes, Spike..."

"Twilight, wake up!"

"G-Gah! Fluttershy! W-Where are we?"

"We're at the camp we were checking up on last night."

"Ah. Okay. Oh. That meant..."

"...He spotted us. Yeah. Where is he, by the way?"

We looked around, but he was gone. Only thing were hoofprints leading to the north. "I'm guessing he went to town," said Twilight. "Should we follow him?"

"Yeah, let's follow him."

We followed the tracks he left behind, leading us back to Ponyville.

Traveling Market
Ponyville
Equestira
9:23 A.M. on April 16th
Assassin Nitro

I got some essentials. Food, seeds to grow crops, a tad bit of iron to make a better shelter and perimeter, and some other things to make weapons. My own weapons are hidden beneath my black and deep green cloak, but I had my hood off. Probably a bad idea, since that's where I hid a small throwing knife, but, to my relief, it slid a little bit lower than my collar. Going to base with a lighter wallet, I spot the two girls from my camp. It appears they had their own equipment. 'Piss.' I thought, because they might spot me and ask questions. I'm not good with people. Ever. So this won't be so different.

"Excuse me, mister!" Twilight was walking towards me. Fuck. I need to think of a good excuse as to why I'm in the Everfree, because I forgot to put them back into their own camp. Shit.

"What can I do for you, Señorita Twilight?" I made sure my accent was clearly Spanish or French, and I tried to make my voice deep. I think I tried too hard.

"I just wanted to ask you a question." Shit. "What were you doing in the middle of the Everfree at night? And living there, for that matter?"

My mind just went through a shit-ton of excuses running at the speed of light, but one prevailed to exist for longer than a second, so I pulled my hood down and did the only natural thing. Run away.

"Hey! Wait!" Twilight yelled, trying to keep up with me. Ponies in the area looked away from what they were doing to find a hooded pony running away from the Princess of Friendship, who was being followed by the Element of Kindness. It was a sight, probably, but not one I wanted to be in for long. I climbed a house right next to me so I can run on the rooftops. I like it up there. I'm pretty sure what was going through Twilight's mind was 'How did that pony do that?'. I talked to her months later, and she did say that she thought that, so I was in the right.

Jumping from rooftop to rooftop, I expertly dodged all obstacles up there. Dodge left. Chimney. Vault over that. Can't stop. Won't stop. I was feeling awesome. Until I jumped and noticed there were no more houses. Fuck. I fell face first.

"I finally caught up to you!" I can't believe I was running faster than her, even though she had the flight ability. Twilight was clearly tired a bit, so I booked it into the forest, jumping from tree branch to tree branch. "Sigh What is he doing?" I heard Twilight say that to her friend, so I hid behind a tree, wait a few seconds, then began to parkour around until I can see them from the shadows.

"I don't know, Twilight," responded Fluttershy, "but it appeared that he didn't want to talk about what he's doing there." Ya got that right, lass.

I turned around, aiming for my camp. It's time to make it a really well defended base.

Outskirts of the Everfree Forest
Ponyville
Equestria
10:59 A.M. on April 16th
Wonderbolt Rainbow Dash

Sigh. Twi wanted us to be out to go to the Everfree this early in the morning?! She either must've found some new magical doo-dad that does a thing or somepony peeved her off. Either way, I don't care. I just wanna go back to sleep.

"...to help me out with the negotiation. See what he wants." Twilight was rambling on about "the Plan", so we can talk with somepony out in the Everfree. I don't know why, and I don't care.

"Twi, I'm way too tired for this. Can I go home and let you all do... whatever you're gonna do?" It was worth a shot.

"No, Rainbow. I need you. You aren't leaving because of something small as not getting a lot of sleep." I thought she'd say that. There's no escape.

"Fiiiiiiine, I'll go. Don't get surprised if I'm knocked unconscious because of my limited sleep."

We wandered through the Everfree. "Hey! I found something!" Rarity shouted that to our left, so we looked and found... something.

"What is it, Rarity?" Fluttershy sounded concerned.

"It's a carving of a symbol. I'm guessing it must lead to the encampment where you and Twilight were asleep at last night." She was right, it was a carving. It reminded me of a symbol I found while rummaging through my parents' house, but I wasn't sure what it meant...

Looking towards the south, I found another one of the symbols. "Hey! I found another one!" I yelled, and pointed towards it.

"Let's follow it. Rainbow, go above the treetops and see where we're headed when we keep following these symbols in a straight line," Twi told me.

"Gotcha," I replied simply. I broke through the treetops, and looked towards where the symbol lead. I saw it lead towards a flagpole. I yelled it back towards the ground crew.

"Yeah. Let's follow it." Twilight lead the 6 of us, including Spike, who was awfully quiet the entire trip. We entered a small clearing, and found the camp. In it, there was a pony making a barrier around the camp, and he was almost done. He was wearing a suit with many pockets and what looked like belts along the arms and waist of his suit. A hood was over his head, so we can't see his face. All we know is that his tail is a blue color, and the rest of his body is covered with the suit. He had braces around his front hooves, and there were insignia and markings all over the suit. The suit itself was a grey color with dark green highlight lines going everywhere. The green was going over the hood to make it look like an eagle, over the back to make it seem like he has wings, around the neck, everywhere that might be a joint.

"Sir!" He jumped when he heard Rarity yell that. I would've smacked her in the back of the head, but she ran towards the pony and I accidentally smacked Spike in the back of the head. He turned around and looked at me with a "I'll murder you later" stare.

The pony coughed and said "Y-yes?" Probably from Prance, that one. "What do you want? Wait. Why are you..." He then looked and stared right at me. I turned around to make sure he wasn't looking at anypony else, and sure enough, Twi and Flutters were right behind me. He muttered something about "God", whatever he/she/that is.

"I was wondering a few things about you. First: Who are you?" Goin' straight to the point, Rare, now aren't ya? Guess you're wanting to talk to him about his fashion first and foremost, but nope!

"U-uhm... N. Yeah. N." Wasn't really convincing.

"N? Why N?" Same here, Rare.

"Because I don't like my real name. I promised myself to never say it, and I can't remember what it was to begin with."

"Well, what are you doing out here, N?" I asked. I walked on up to him, and noticed his green eyes going to the size of small grapes.

"U-Uhh..." He just stood there for a few seconds before slowly walking backwards.

"No ya don't! AJ, c'mon!" Applejack and I jumped on N to hold him down. I grabbed his hood and pulled it down, but he punched me off. AJ held him down, however. He's oddly protective of his hood. I wonder why...

"Let me ask again: What are you doing here, N?" He can't escape now. At least, that's what I thought. A mask fell on his face, and he dropped a canister on the ground. We later learned that this was called a "flash bang", which was made from a bunch of stuff I didn't pay attention to. Twi might remember, though. It went off, and left us seeing nothing but white. It hurt my lungs so I let go and coughed. A ringing sound was in my ears, and, from what I heard, the other girls experienced the same thing. When the whiteness faded away, and we can hear again, there was a burnt spot where the cylinder exploded, and N was gone again. I didn't see his face, so I don't think we'd be able to find him...

Author's Note

This actually made my left hand cramp up, for the sheer amount of letters that were in the left-hand side of the keyboard. Ow.

I couldn't find the instrumental for "Forsake Me Now" by JT Music, so the actual song with the vocals is the next best thing. Hope it was good, at least!