Equestria: Apex Hunter

I woke up in chains. I looked around me to see a large mirror adorning the wall, and I was chained to a table. My helmet was still on but my weapons were placed on a table twenty feet from me. Using my helmet's audio enhancers, I could hear a discussion on the other side of the mirror.

"If he can kill a Titan with those weapons of his, we should reverse engineer them!" Said someone sounding suspiciously like Twilight.

"Look, I went with your plan to capture and interrogate him Twilight, but there's no way I'll allow that! If we fuck up, we'll have another galactic faction against us. We need allies, and the IMC doesn't play nice" Said a girl sounding like Sunset Shimmer.

"We don't know If he's telling the truth! That's why we specifically took him to the old base so he couldn't report anything back to his IMC comrades!" Said Twilight. I started feeling around my pockets for the one thing my friends made fun of me for carrying. I pulled out a hairpin and began trying to pick the locks on my handcuffs. Once they were unlocked, I left them hanging on to give the illusion they were still locked.

"We can't assume he's the bad guy in this situation when all he did was save us! I'm going to walk in there and ask him some simple questions. You can observe from here." Said Sunset. I heard a door open and close. Then the door to the interrogation room opened. Sunset walked in and sat at the table across from me. I stared at her for a whole minute before talking.

"The IMC's been raiding resistance cells haven't they?" I asked. This surprised her. She actually seemed stumped.

"Yes, but they're not normal IMC. They're... different." She said. "They have a strange symbol. Like a malformed Ram skull." She said, and I felt my pace quicken.

"Give me back my things and I'll tell you all about them." I said, she looked skeptical. "Alright, I'll give you a freebee. They're called the Apex Predators. Cutthroat mercenaries led by a man named Kuben Blisk. The slimy git got away after the battle on Typhon. I've been hunting that bastard as a secondary objective. Can I at least have my pistol and knife? I've been through a lot with those two." She looked back at the two mentioned items, and handed me the data knife.

"Here. I won't give you a firearm just yet. But... You did just give us the name of the man who killed Shining Armor. He was Twilight's brother." She said.

I looked down at the data knife in my hands, shaking my head.

"I'm sorry to hear that." I said. "I'm sure it'd be a comfort to her to know that I'm the only man he's afraid of." I said. Sunset cocked her head to the side.

"Why?" She asked, I chuckled darkly.

"I almost killed him, he never got close to killing me. To him, that means I'm slightly better than him, that's scary." I said, running a single finger along the blade to test sharpness. Still like a surgeon's scalpel. "If you want Blisk dead, you gotta get rid of the other Apex Predators. Think of them as a snake, but every time you cut the head off, the body thrashes around destroying everything. But if there's no body left, and you detonate the fucker, it's gone for good. Luckily for you, you're talking to one of the only pilots that can say they hunt the Apex Predators." I said, lifting up an APEX card.

"After I went on a killing spree, Blisk himself gave me this card. I gave him something too." I said, before leaning forward. "A bullet in his right shoulder."

Sunset looked at the Mirror with wide eyes.

"Ask him what he wants in return for killing Blisk." Twilight asked. But I beat Sunset to the punch.

"I want my shit back. No one touches my weapons OR equipment, and if you're joining me on this, you do what I say, when I say it." I said, turning my head to look at Twilight through the one way mirror. "And that's just a start. If you want the IMC gone, I need to contact the Militia fleet."

Sunset Shimmer looked at the one way, and then back to me.

"Can you see through that?" She asked, I nodded. "So, you could hear us and see us the entire time?" She asked. I nodded.

"To be completely honest," I said as I began lifting my arms, the handcuffs coming off. "I could've done that the second you walked in. But I wanted to be polite." This threw her through a loop. "Relax, I'd never hurt an innocent on purpose."

"Wish the IMC could say the same." Sunset muttered.

"You want to hurt them?" I asked. I turned to the mirror. "They could have several fueling stations and Titan manufacturing factories on Equis. But they always have an interstellar communications beacon. We should hit the fueling stations first. Then we can get some Titans. That'll cause some havoc." I said, standing up.

"What about the beacon?" Asked Sunset. I looked down at her, smiling beneath my helmet.

"That, Sunset, is a surprise." I said before grabbing the rest of my things. I stopped when I felt a blade on my neck. I looked at the mirror to see Rainbow Dash holding a knife to my throat.

"Just what the fuck do you think you're doing?" Asked Rainbow Dash. "I won't allow you to have any weapons outside of this room. Don't let this agreement confuse you. You're our prisoner. No weapons, Titans, no nothing!" She said, applying pressure to draw out a small trail of blood. I let my instincts take over, and in a matter of seconds, I had disarmed Rainbow Dash and had her own knife pointed right at one of her eyes.

"Hi. I'm Joe, the only hope you have at surviving the days to come. If you knew just what the SRS was you'd know not to fuck around when it comes to threats." I said to her. Her face went pale. "The only reason you're alive is because the IMC doesn't care if you're a rebel or militia. They'll kill you either way. I'll only kill you if you try to kill me. And guess what you just did?" I asked, inching the knife ever so closer to her eye.

"Stop!" Cried Sunset. I looked at her to see fear in her eyes. I looked back to Rainbow to see the same fear. I pulled the knife away from her eye, and threw it into the metal interrogation table. I grabbed the rest of my things and looked back to the two.

"I'm sorry. But you never should've held a knife of all things to my neck. Blisk loves to use knives." I said before running my finger along one of many scars on my stomach. "I'll start searching for a fueling station in the morning. You should all get some rest." I said before walking towards the door, without breaking pace I said "You'll need it." as I crossed the door's threshold.

As I rested my head on an ancient pillow, covering myself with a tattered blanket, I looked up through a hole in the wall. Gazing out across the brief open area before my eyes got to the forest. Where I couldn't help but imagine a Northstar charging up it's railgun, it's barrel leveled right at me.

Blisk POV:

"Oi! Marder! Where the hell is my payday!?" I asked. General Marder's hologram looked at me.

"You did not kill the Militia pilot known as Jack Cooper, who destroyed the fold weapon on Typhon. Not to mention the important members of the Royal Family and The Elements of Harmony are still alive even after Prince Blueblood's betrayal. And as long as Celestia and Luna are still alive, there will be no 'payday'. Marder out." The hologram faded away until I was looking at Aaron, a Tone pilot, looking right at me. He stretched his arms out.

"Find them, and bring them to me." I told Aaron. He nodded before getting into his Tone. He hefted his cannon onto his shoulder.

"No problem." He said in his deep voice. "There's an old resistance base in the forest near here. I'll start my search there." He said before his Tone walked away with him inside.