My Little Hitcolt

by ThePopeMobile100

Rating: teen
Tags: Dark, Comedy, Tragedy
Length: 38129

History, it never fades. Some say it doesn't matter, some say it does.

Sigma is a hitcolt trying to get away from his past. But he will find out that the past can't be forgotten and that it can cause some pretty strange things. Like the destruction of all those around him, one by one they will fall. One by one, they will choose the impossible. One by one, they will learn that the future is set in stone. One by one, they will carve out their story, their history. And one by one, the choice that they make will decide the future of all of ponykind.

WARNING: THIS FIC IS SHIT

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-01-08 02:21:36 UTC

Prologue

AN: I am aware that this prologue kind of sucks, but bear with me. The rest is better.

I walked through the city of los Pegasus with the rest of the ponies. It would be easy to assume that I was nothing more than a simple pony going about his business. You could say that. I was technically going about business as usual. Even if that business was not in the least bit normal.

You see, I’m a problem solver. I don’t solve problems like what is beauty as that would fall into your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems. If your down on your luck, you get me. If your in a bit of a jam, you get me. You need to settle a debt, you get me. The list goes on and on.

During this particular job, I was hired to “settle” an argument between two families, permanently. You see, in los Pegasus, there are a number of very important families. The two that I was hired to settle a dispute with are the Omertas, the ones who hired me, and a rich family know as the White Hoof Society.

The White Hoof Society was a full of a bunch of upper class ponies who believe themselves superior to all of those around them. That wasn't my problem with them though. My problem was the occasional disappearances that would happen. That didn't make some ponies suspicious like it normally would. The White Hoof Society would use their status and power to shift the blame to other ponies. Then, the suspected group would disappear of the face of the planet. Most would say that it was just some ponies taking the law into their own hooves, but not me. I knew that they had a small, private army at their disposal.

The Omertas were a group of underworld trash that owned a casino known for being very adult friendly. They were disliked by most ponies, especially the White Hoof Society. They had been known to deal in various forms of underworld behavior including prostitution and drug trading. Strangely, I liked the Omertas. It was mostly because unlike other groups of ponies, they didn't try to hide what they did. They were powerful enough that they could openly deny the claims to the public, but anyone who has been to their casino knows that the accusations are true.

This was my 5th time working for the Omertas and they paid well. They gave me a penthouse room at the casino they ran and it is where I called home. I got a discount at everything in the casino and didn’t get hustled during the few times I gambled. Quite nice of them considering that it was notorious for them to hustle their patrons.

Anyway, as I walked down the street to the warehouse that I was supposed to meet with a White Hoof lieutenant, I was cornered by three stallions. They made it clear what they wanted. Another thing about los Pegasus is that it has a very high crime rate in comparison to the rest of Equestria. The stallions were all earth ponies. One had a switchblade and the other two were unarmed. This would be easy.

“You know the drill, give us your bits,” the second one said.

I was hoping for more colorful dialogue but you can’t have everything. So I decided to go and play stupid and ask, “Why should I give you my bits? Oh, I know, your the prositutes that my cousin hired as a dirty trick aren’t you? Very funny Niko.”

This caught them all off guard.

“What are you, retarded? Did your mom drop you on your head as a filly,” The third said

Again, I played it stupid and said, “Moma said never to talk to strangers.”

“Oh for the love of all that is holy, Spike, show this stallion that we mean business.”

The first known as Spike advanced on me, only to get a nice little surprise known as a hoof to the head. It stunned him long enough for me to unlesh my secret weapon, magic. I yanked the switchblade out of his teeth with it and shoved blade up in between his jaws and into his brain.

The third rushed me while I was doing this and tried to knock me onto the ground. I sidesteped him, only to be tackled by the second. He pinned me and was raising his hoof to strike, only to forget that I was a unicorn. I threw his only living companion into him, removing him from me.

I shot a magic blast at them, scoring a direct hit on the second; the blast ripped up his stomach and gore started to spill out. The third was in shellshock from the blast. Using my magic, I picked the third up and threw him violently into the wall of the nearby building. I was rewarded with a sickening crunch.

I trotted up to the second, who was begging for forgiveness and that somepony by the name of Celestia would look kindly on my mercy. I sighed, not from how pitiful this stallion was that he couldn’t even accept his fate, but from how many times I herd this speech.

The last thing that he ever saw was both of my hindlegs coming towards his face.

Back to Reality

I woke up trying to remember where I was. This was harder said than done because I couldn’t remember to save my life. Then it occured to me to open my eyes to find out. I immediatly opened them in order to see, only to be blinded by light.

“Dammit Sigma, what did they say about going full derp on yourself,” I swore silently.

I then opened them much slower this time so the light wouldn’t try to kill me. While my vision slowly returned to me, blurry at first. I determined that I was on grass, I was hungry, a bird pooped on my mane, and my flank hurt. With my vision returned, I realized that I was in a small meadow off to the side of the road.

Now that I had established my souroundings, it was time to see what I had to eat. Looking through my saddlebags made me remember that I needed a new one. With luck, I found an apple. It was starting to rot and it looked like it tasted like the shit in my mane.

“Bon appetite,” I said sarcastically.

I was wrong. It didn’t taste like shit. It was far from it actually. It tasted like the most unholy spawn of shit that no living being would dare get near. It was so vile that if the apple fell towards the ground, the ground would part ways just so it wouldn’t have to touch that sorry excuse for an apple. I ate the apple, only to chuke it back up. I guess I would go hungry today.

Oh well, there goes the last of my food to the worms. Again. I grudgingly put my empty saddlebags on and hit the road.

With nothing happening, I could think about the dream I had. For some reason, it bothered me. It wasn’t that I had a dream about what I used to do, on the contrary, I had those dreams all the time. It was how vivid it was. I could remember everything down to the smallest detail on all the ponies cutie marks. Dreams of past events have never been like that, especially about my hits and the things I did to remove the targets of interest. Something wasn’t right. Everything about the dream seemed wrong. Maybe it was because I was leaving all I ever knew behind. Was that dream a wakeup call for me to stay in the country? I contemplated if I really should leave. No, I was almost at the border and I would make it to Equestria by the end of the day if nothing eventful happened.

“Hello Sigma,” said a voice behind me.

Snapping out of my thought, I turned to face the stranger; only to face six of them. I sighed, remembering one of the reasons I was leaving the country. This was going to be a very long day.

“Why don’t you just come with us and nopony needs to get hurt,” said one of the ponies in the group.

While they were busy trying to convince me to come with them, I summed up my odds. Three earth ponies, two unicorns and a pegasus. All armed with an array of knives and daggers. These ponies meant business and they were not afraid to get dirty. Or at least thats what they wanted me to think.

“Are you paying attention?” It was an earth pony who spoke up this time.

“No, but out of curiosity, what did my former employer put the bounty on my head at?” I said lazily.

The pegasus, and the apparent leader of the group spoke up “fifty thousand bits for the ponies who bring in the unicorn known as Sigma to the world alive. twenty-five thousand bits for the ponies who bring him in dead.”

I gave a low whistle. No wonder these bounty hunters were trying to bring me in alive.

He went on by saying “now that the formalities are over, why don’t you give up and make life easy for everyone. And tell me why did you want to know what the bounty on your head was?”

I answered his questions with “well the answer for the first question is over my dead body. And as for the second, I wanted to see how much it had gone up.”

“And you have given us our decision as well,” said the pegasus who dashed at me while saying it.

I ducked under him and brought my horn up in an attempt to skewer him, but he pulled up. Two of the earth ponies and one of the unicorns rushed me, only to meet the power of a magical field that I put up. In laymans terms, it gave both of the earth ponies a high voltage shock that left them unconscious, but the unicorn detected the field right before he ran into it, avoiding the shield entirely.

Unfortuantely, only living beings would be stopped by the field and the second unicorn knew this. He used his magic to throw a knife at me. I didn’t see this until it was almost to late and was rewarded with a small gash on the side of my face. This temporary distraction made me collapse my shield and in that moment, the first unicorn rushed me and tried to shank me with his dagger. I dodged, dived, dipped, ducked, and dodged his slashes. This didn’t last long as the only consious earth pony rushed me. The other unicorn also joined the fray and was blasting at me with magic.

I was too hungry to put up the field again and I was on the seat of my flank avoiding their attacks. I continued my backpedaling until I stepped on something. It was the knife one of the unicorns had thrown at me. Picking it up with my magic, I thrust it into the skull of the earth pony, permanently removing his flank from the fight.

I then sidestepped a blast from the unicorn. Charging my own up, I continued to dodge all of the attacks that came my way. I dodged all of them except for the pegasus who joined in and cut open my side. I lost my concentration again, leaving me without magic to fight directly with. Needing a new plan, I remembered the dagger the earth pony had rushed me with.

“Stop making me derp brain or I will find a way to expell you from my body,” I shouted to no one in paticular.

This accomplished something else though. Both of the unicorns derped long enough for me to pick the dagger from the dead pony with my telekinetics and slash the throat of the first unicorn and then throw it into the second’s chest, hitting a lung.

This royally pissed off the pegasus and he rushed me. I did the most logical thing that came to my mind. I attempted to skewer him with my horn, this time with success. He didn’t expect this and now he had my horn in his chest. I charged up my magic to do my signiture move.

“I’m about to lay down the law all over the place,” was the last thing he herd.

I discharged all of the magic I had stored, making it rain pegasus for a good thirty seconds.

I was in the groove so I did the most logical thing I could think of, I yelled “FATALITY!”

I trotted over to the last unicorn and bucked him in the side of the head, removing the only threat to me at the time.

Then came the fun part, looting. I searched all of their stuff and I got a good surprise. Food, in the form of non-rotten apples! I devoured half a dozen of them before moving on to the rest of the search. All I got from it was another dozen apples, a set of slightly better saddle bags and a travelling cloak.

I doned the cloak and saddle bags and continued on my merry way.

The Night

It was late into the night when I stopped walking. My hooves were starting to get sore from all this walking. It was dark at my location. Well no shit Sherlock, your in the middle of a damn forest, and you can't see the moon.

I started to get a fire going. When I did, it illuminated the area I was in. I could see the eyes of animals watching me as if I looked like their next meal. Yeah, we didn't need to sleep anyway.

I knew that there was a small settlement near my campsight, but it would take hours of walking through the forest in the middle of night and I can barely see anything that isn't in the firelight. Not to mention that I am a fugitive, the fire would give my position away to anypony who was looking for me. I could put it out, but then the wildlife might get the idea of mauling me in my sleep and that would make my already bleak outlook of being a model nonexistent.

Damn, this is a harder decision than what is for dinner.

Yeah, up yours too brain. Lets leave the fire going and on to more pressing matters, food.

Apples, more apples, and what would you know, more apples. Why is it that the only food the bounty hunters had is apples? Why couldn't I have something to dispense provisions that weren't apples? Ugh, I need a dispenser here.

Hey retard,we are out of water.

Bullshit, I still have a full canteen of water, now if only I could find it. There were plenty of empty ones lying arou-found it. No, wait, its empty.

I hate it when I'm right.

Eating the last of the apples, I settled down to try and get some sleep.

Apparently, sleep wasn't the only thing I was fresh out of.

I tossed and turned for what seemed like an eternity and a half, but sleep didn't come. The noises in the forest were keeping me up and sleep refused to come until that problem was delt with. I need to make them shut up. So yelled at them, it made them louder. So I stood up and shot a spell at them, that just made them angry. So I blew a raspberry at them, nothing happened. I was out of ideas, and getting pissed off. I didn't want to resort to this, but I needed his help.

Brain, do you have any ideas on how to get me to go to sleep?

I heard clopping usually helps.

Yeah, your not helping.

Then try the knock-out spell you learned.

I derped on that one. How could I forget that?

Casting it on myself, I immediately dropped to the ground, unconscious.

I was having an epic dream. It was at least 20% cooler than last nights dream. Why, cause there was a hot mare in it. It also involved some sort of tournament that would decide the future of pony-kind. I was fighting in it, I think it was called the Mortal Kombat tournament, and there were robots and some sort of lizard-pony that was from a place called Geico. He was trying to save us 15% or more on carriage insurance. Then it got even more awesome cause there was an alicorn that called itself the Legendary Super Pony and he was really buff and he bucked the shit out of all the fighters but me. I got angry and became an alicorn that was super buff and was green for some reason and I yelled "Hulk Smash". I got a reward by getting a night with a super sexy mare called Les Bian. Anyway, I was holding her and then I went to kiss her, except that my lips touched something in real life.

I opened my eyes to see the second last thing I wanted to wake up to and I'll give you a hint, it wasn't a pony.

It was big, it had a scorpion tail and bat wings, with the body of a lion. It was ugly, smelly and really pissed, and I kissed it on the lips.

I knew it, your first kiss was with your mother!

Yeah, my brain's kind of a dick.

Then maybe you should bitching that mine is bigger than yours and I don't know, run!

Taking its advice, I pulled myself away and ran.

With a might roar, it charged after me. That just made me run faster. It was to no avail though as it was pretty pissed off that I  kissed it.

It started to gain on me and with this knowledge in mind, I screamed. It wasn't a very manly scream though, I'm colt enough to say that.

Are you kidding? You sounded like a school filly.

Really brain, really? We are going to be raped by this thing and all you care about is being tough?

I kept running until I saw a cottage on the outskirts of the forest, then I had destination.

But then the strangest thing happened, the thing that was chasing me stopped.

Wondering why, I turned around to see a yellow pegasus with a pink mane staring at it. Is she insane? That thing will gobble her up in one bite, she doesn't stand a chance.

If that thing doesn't want a piece of that pegasus, then I'll gladly take a piece of that. I mean, look at that flank. I don't know about you, but I like this view.

Fuck you brain, Fu-Damn that is a nice piece of flank.

Then the something else happened, the monster started to walk away. Okay, this shit is getting weird.

The mare started towards me and I started freaking out, mentally of course, not physically.

Then in the smallest voice ever she said "A-are you Okay?"

Me, being forty-one flavors of awesome and coming in a variety of manly colors, did the most epic thing that night that wasn't me dreaming.

I passed out.

First impressions

I was sleeping in a state of pure bliss. It was warm and kind of fuzzy, but most importantly, it was so soft. I wanted to stay there forever and I would have, if my stomach was screaming at me to make a sandwich. However, the problem fixed itself with a very tantalizing aroma. Then I snapped back to reality and my brain got swarmed with questions.What smells so good, and why am I on something soft? What is the meaning of life?

Really? Your asking me what the meaning of life is when we all know the answer is 42. I won't answer the other two cause I only give you the answer to one question per day, of my choosing.

Dammit, now I have to do the hard work. Alright Sigma, what is this madness that you appear to be on?

...

You're retarded, open your eyes.

I did as my almighty brain demanded of me and opened my eyes, slowly this time. My vision, like always was blurry. When it cleared, the soft thing before was a bed and the stuff that goes on a bed. Alright, that takes care of tha- OBJECTION! Why am I on a bed in a small room that is lightly furnished? Oh shit, I've been ponynapped. What will they do to me, I hope that they will be gentle. Just as long as they remember that its an exit only, I will only hate my life and not try to commit suicide.

Jumping out of bed and opening the adjacent window, I realized that my injuries from yesterdays gaggle of wannabe bounty hunters, were cleaned and bandaged. That's strange, I don't remember doing such serious first aid on myself in the recent past.

That's because you never do first aid. Really, its a miracle that we have keeled over from blood loss, infection, or you being stupid.

Oh yeah, right.

Unfortunately, I was to busy talking to myself to realize that the door had opened and inside stood my worst nightmare, a pretty mare with a tray of soup, water, and what looked like pills.

How is this your worst nightmare? Let me guess, its because she isn't in the kitchen and there isn't a sandwich on that tray?

While my brain was being a sexist dick, the mare had set the tray on an end table and quickly moved towards me.

"O-Oh no, y-you can't be up like that. I mean, if you want to."

Not paying attention to her, I jumped out the window screaming "I'm a free bird."

My moment of freedom lasted a whole two seconds, a personal record. It ended with my old foe, gravity, came to say fuck you. That wasn't all that happened. I just so happened to have landed on my head. Being a unicorn, I have a horn that is located on my forehead. My forehead was the first part of my body to connect with the ground. Now said horn is stuck in the ground.

"Well this is fun."

Fun? This is hilarious! I haven't laughed this hard in a long time.

"Jokes on you, you can't laugh."

...

Finally, he shut up.

"O-Oh, a-are you okay?"

I heard the flapping of wings and decided that it was useless trying to escape now. I probably had a concussion, my horn is taking a dirt nap, my flank is stuck in the air, and what little dignity I had earlier was gone.

"Do you need help getting your horn out of the ground?"

The voice was so quiet, I almost didn't hear it. Whoever she was, her voice really didn't carry that far.

"Eeyup."

I don't know why I said that, but I felt the need to.

The voice went quiet for a little while before something grabbed a hold on my neck and started pulling. This freaked me out and with me not thinking as straight as I normally do, I started to struggle and buck at whatever had gotten hold of me. Good for me at the time and bad for later, I made contact with something, barely. It was enough though for whatever it was to stop. Then I heard the sobbing.That's when I realized it was the mare who was pulling on me.

But before I had a chance to explain myself, she took off, leaving me with my horn still stuck in the ground.

Alright, I let you do your thing for thirty seconds and this is what happens? The fuck is wrong with you?

"I don't know, but could you help me get out of this situation?"

No, you hit a mare. What's worse is that it was probably the same one from last night. Now, your asking me for help. Fuck you, you deserve this. I hope a big earth pony stallion sees your flank and rapes it.

"Your not helping."

So I started to try and get my horn out. It wasn't working. I tried for ten minutes before I heard voices. I tried to turn so I could see them, but it didn't work. I couldn't fight my way out of this situation, I couldn't think straight, and my brain had left the building. So I did the most reasonable thing I could think of. I took the initiative and said hello. These are the responses I got.

"Eeep."

"Oh my."

"What happened to you?"

"Are you the one that kicked Fluttershy?"

And two ponies that started laughing, making my dignity hit a record low.

Meet The Mane 6

Okay, today has sucked so far. First, I woke up, end of story. Second, I kicked a hot mare. Third, there are now six pairs of eyes staring at my flank. I doubt that this could get any worse. The two ponies who were laughing at me are still laughing. I was getting pretty pissed off at this and decided to make a joke.

"Take a picture, it'll last longer."

"Wait, I have a camera somewhere..."

Fuck me with the moon.

"Here it is."

"I don't know who you are, but if you take a picture, I'll destroy you.

I didn't say anymore as there was a flash from behind me. The flash of a camera. Scratch that previous statement, this day just got worse. This is embarrassing and I needed a plan, unfortunately, I was out of plans as well. Brain, I require assistance.

Alright, I'll help. Lets think of what you have tried to do to get out of this situation. You've tried struggling, you've tried fighting, and you've tried joking. Lets see...Try diplomacy.

Crap, I suck at diplomacy.

"Okay, I know I've been mean in the past but lets let bygones be bygones."

That will never work, I can't believe I just said that. Might as well get used to being here and what the crap, I'm moving. It worked, wow.

"Thank you."

" Shut up, Ah ain't forgivin' you yet."

Now able to see the group that had been staring at my flanks for the past minute, I noticed that there were six of them. Two of every species. The earth pony who was dragging me by my tail spat it out.

"Now why did ya kick Fluttershy?"

The orange earth pony who addressed me was of medium build and average height for a mare. She wore a stetsons hat and freckles on her face. Her cutie mark was three apples.

"Umm"

"Wrong answer pal."

I went to see who said this, but I got it in the face by a rainbow. How in the hell does a rainbow hit somepony and make it hurt? I fell back onto my back from this.

"Rainbow Dash, that was highly uncalled for. Let him have a chance to explain himself."

Yay, I'm getting support in some way. I sat up and looked at them all. The other pegasus, known as Rainbow Dash to the world.

Known as Rainbow Dyke to me.

When my brain said that, I started laughing.

"Dammit, my inner monologue is ruined."

"What?"

That came from a violet unicorn mare with a dark purple mane and a pink stripe running down it. Her cutie mark was a star with sparkles.

"Sorry, I thought of something funny."

All of the sudden, a pink blur shot into my face, blinding me with pink.

AHHHH, the pink, it burns!

"REALLY? TELL US!"

"No."

Unfortunately, my answer didn't stop her. In fact, it spontaneously changed topics.

"OHMYGOSH, YOURNEWHERINPONYVILLECAUSEIKNOWEVER..."

"Make it stop."

For the love of all that is holy, make it stop.

"Pinkie, get off of him."

"ANDWEREGONNAHAVEFUNANDCAKEAND..."

The pink monster was ripped off of me with telekinesis and her mouth zipped shut. The purple glow surrounding her told me who did it. I ran to the purple pony, bent down and started kissing her hooves.

"Thank you, you have saved my life fair maiden. To what do I owe this honor."

No dignity.

"Will you stop that and answer my questions?"

I stood up, backed a few feet away and bowed low.

"Of course, my master."

"OOOkay, you can start by telling me who you are."

"My name is Sigma."

"Where are you from?"

"I came from los Pegasus."

"And where did you get those dreadful scars?"

I turned my attention to the white unicorn with a purple mane who addressed me.

"I don't think you have the stomach for it."

"Rarity, we don't need to know that, yet."

Thank you purple unicorn master once again.

"Now tell me, why did you kick Fluttershy?"

"Because I wasn't thinking straight."

"Pfft, a likely excuse."

If Rainbow Dyke says something like that again, piss her off.

Got it.

"Why weren't you thinking straight."

"Because I fell out a two story window and landed on my head. And I won't answer any more questions until you answer some of mine."

Rainbow shot up to my face and said "Thats not how this works bub."

"Hey purple pony, can you tell Rainbow Dyke here to get out of my face before she gets hurt."

That earned a gasp from everypony and a very nasty look from Rainbow Dash.

"Oh, a tough guy are you, I can take you out in ten seconds flat."

"Go on ahead and make the first move Miss. Dyke, I assure you that you won't get a second."

"Oh it is on."

She rushed me, only to meet a barrier I put up. Upon hitting it, she learned the same lesson that the bounty hunters from yesterday learned. Problem is, it didn't knock her out, it just pissed her off.

She lunged at me again, breaking the barrier and charged me. Lucky for me, she wasn't too bright and ran into a very temporary paralysis spell I shot at her. Unluckily for me, she was going extremely fast and crashed into my head with her head. If I didn't have a concussion before, I probably did now. The impact knocked me down and she kind of landed on top of me in an... arousing way.

With her not able to move and me not feeling like it, we just lied there. Of course that got changed when she got lifted off of me by telekinesis by the purple unicorn.

Aw, I was enjoying that.

My spell wore off a second later and she started squirming in the telekinesis.

"Put me down Twilight so I can teach this punk a lesson."

"If she comes at me again, I will end her."

The purple pony thought about this for a while before coming to a conclusion.

"If I let you go Rainbow, will you leave him alone?"

"Ugh, fine" Rainbow grumbled.

"Good."

Purple pony released her from her grasp and looked at me.

"I guess we should introduce ourselves."

I nodded.

"The pink earth pony is Pinkie Pie."

Upon hearing her name, she waved energetically.

"The white unicorn is Rarity."

"Charmed."

"The orange earth pony is Applejack."

She tipped her hat.

"You've already met Rainbow Dy- I mean Rainbow Dash."

Some of the other ponies giggled at that, Rainbow glared at them.

"The yellow pegasus is Fluttershy."

She hid behind her mane when I looked at her.

"Sorry, she's a little shy."

"Really? I couldn't tell."

Purple pony rolled her eyes before continuing.

"And I'm Twilight Sparkle."

She extended her hoof.

Meeting hers, I said "Its a pleasure."

A Little Bit More

Alright, recap time. I don't know where I am exactly. I've met a bunch of mares and one dyke. The unicorn called Twilight Sparkle is somepony who can give me the answers I need. I need to keep my eye on Rainbow "Dyke" Dash, for my personal safety. I also require a place to sleep as I am not going to sleep in the forest again. Might as well try to be friendly.

You mean be a total dick to Rainbow Dash.

Ignoring that, I spoke up "Miss Sparkle, would you be kind enough to give me a tour around the nearby town?"

"Sorry, I have to get back to my studies."

"I CAN!"

No, NOT HER!

"Great, its settled, Pinkie will give you a tour of Ponyville and once she is done, you will come by the library to answer more questions."

We're still being interrogated? We gave you the answer to the questions that need answering.

"Please don't leave me."

That didn't work and in a few moments, I was stuck with Pinkie Pie.

"What now?"

I shouldn't have asked that.

3 hours later

She hasn't shut up in three hours. Its literally been nonstop for THREE HOURS.

All of Pinkie Pies ramblings and getting off topic had gone on for so much time, going back to face my crimes would be welcome in comparison to this punishment.

"And here we are, the library. Twilight is waiting for you inside."

...

"Well, its not nice to make her wait, go in."

That was uncharacteristic of her.

SON OF A BITCH, SHE ACTUALLY SHUT UP! THANK CELESTIA, whoever that is.

This revelation made me stop and mentally cheer with joy.

"You know, that voice in your head isn't very nice."

Wait, she heard that. Must investigate.

"Pinkie, can you read minds?"

"Nope, only italics."

Okay, what the FUCK was that. Shaking it off, I went to the library door and knocked.

"Its open." The voice came from inside, and it was a bit more masculine than what I expected. Shrugging this off, I opened the door. Inside the tree were books, LOTS of books.

Damn, this is even more books than what the los Pegasus Public Library had.

Right, because that Public Library had a whole entire ten books.

I didn't have much time to muse as I heard "You must be that unicorn Twilight was talking about. WOW, she wasn't kidding when she said you had some scars. Where can I get some, those look AWESOME."

It took me a good five seconds to realize that the voice was that of the dragon that was twelve feet in front of me. My natural reaction was to stare at him.

"What, you've never seen a dragon before?"

"No, I've met some dragons in my life, but they were a bit taller."

I got a glare that was supposed to be mean and intimidating. but it wasn't. It brought a small smile to my face.

"What are you smirking at?"

"Nothing."

"You want a piece of-"

He was cut off by the sound of hooves coming down the stairs.

There she was, Twilight Sparkle.

The object of your desire.

We don't joke about that brain. You remember what happened last time I got close to somepony.

Unfortunately.

"Come upstairs Sigma, I have questions."

Not wanting to make a scene right now, I obeyed. Once upstairs, she directed me to a small table in the middle of the room.

"Sit down."

"No."

She seemed surprised by this and redirected the question.

"Would you kindly sit down." She said with much more authority in her voice.

"Well, since you asked nicely." I complied and sat my flank down.

"You say your name is Sigma yes."

"That is correct, why are you asking me this again?"

"This is just for the record."

Wow, she is writing every word we say down.

"Is this an interrogation, Miss. Sparkle?"

"No, but you will be required to answer all my questions or I will report you to the princess."

"What princess?"

"Oh right, los Pegasus isn't part of Equestria. Princess Celestia is the ruler of all the land with her sister Luna. Those two together raise and lower the sun and moon."

Okay, so I will be reported to a pair of super-beings that are extremely OP. Lets not have that happen if we can avoid it.

"Next question Miss. Sparkle."

"Please, just call me Twilight."

"Very well."

Pussy whipped.

Now is not the time brain.

"Can you confirm that you come from the city of los Pegasus?"

"It was my home before moving to Equestria."

"And why did you move to Equestria?"

"To get away from some bad ponies."

"Why come here instead of the closer Griffin Kingdom?"

"They have contacts in the Griffin Kingdom that would bring me back. To my knowledge, they don't have any in Equestria."

"Who are you hiding from?"

"That's my business, not yours."

"Very well. Next question, what was your previous occupation?"

"I was hired muscle at one of the casinos."

"Where did you get those scars?"

"On the job."

"Thats all the questions I have for now, come with me."

"Where are we going?" I asked, standing as I did so.

"To Sugarcube Corner."

This better not involve the pink devil.

As we walked to Sugarcube Corner, I was able to learn that she is Celestia's personal student and a very powerful unicorn.

Twilight opened the door, but there was nothing there. It was nothing but blackness.

"Uh, Twilight, nopony is here."

She didn't answer and the door flew shut. For a few moments, I was left in complete darkness.

Suddenly, there was a bright flash. That triggered my defense reaction and I prepared for a fight.

Somewhere outside of Equestria

The room was poorly lit, all that could be seen was a single pony with a heavy cloak on. The pony was approached by a second pony with a cloak that blocked all of his features that weren't his eyes, a very unusual yellow that looked almost demonic. Staring into them could cause even the bravest of ponies to cower in fear.

"Are you sure your the best?"

"Of course, me and my partner are unbeatable." The first pony, evidently a mare with an upper class voice said.

"Good, I have a job for you, the termination of an ex-employee of mine. The man at the door will give you the details."

"Whats the pay?"

"you will get one hundred thousand bits upon bringing me his horn. All the other bounty hunters have failed, but they volunteered to remove him. They were amateurs."

"Why do you need my services then?"

"Because, I have no influence over Equestria. I needed the best from Equestria for this job. Will you take it."

The mare smiled, her amethyst eyes penetrating the darkness.

The Party

AN: two chapters in one day? I'm smothering you guys. If my summer continues to be as boring as it is now, I may continue to try to write two chapters.

When surprised, most ponies will react upon instinct. The typical reaction is fright, but not mine. It also didn't help that I was a target for assassination, in which the element of surprise is often used. My reaction was much more than just fright, it was also a bit more lethal. When the lights came on and a very loud noise was emitted, my reaction was to charge up a much more powerful version of the shield spell I used on Rainbow Dash earlier that day. The main difference between the two spells is this one had a tendency to kill your average pony instead of knock them out.

The noise almost stopped immediately as soon as they saw my horn light up. The awkward silence that followed was deafening.

Twilight was the first to speak up "Uh Sigma, what are you doing?"

Realizing my foolishness, I quickly discharged my spell.

"Twilight, whats going on?"

Instead of Twilight, I got Pinkie Pie.

"Its a surprise party, DUH."

Fascinating, your reaction to a surprise party is to overcharge your shield spell. I have one thing to say to you, DERP.

"Oh, oops. Well then, lets get this party STARTED!"

That appeared to get most of them to stop staring, for the most part. Rainbow wasn't letting me out of her gaze.

Pinkie diverged straight into the party, doing a variety of things, some of which included contact with other ponies. Great, number four of the worst possible things that can happen is going to be happening.

Alright, let me get this straight, touching another pony that isn't in a fight is the fourth on your list of things that is the worst possible thing?

Yes

So number five is a blank, four is pony contact, three is a blank, two is waking up to a carniverous beast that wants to devour you, and the first is a mare that isn't in the kitchen making you a sandwich.

No, number one is waking up next to a mare.

Then technically, Fluttershy walking in on you while you have a monologue is not the worst thing that can happen to you.

Correct, number five is interrupting my monologues.

"Come on Sigma, LETS PARTY!"

"And there goes number five, again."

You may want to put everything on your list down one and move being stuck in a room with Pinkie Pie to the top.

Good idea.

After some enticing, she got me dancing. Only because there would be cake for me if I did. For those of you who don't know, I am one of the most lazy stallions out there, but there is one thing that I will anything, and I mean ANYTHING for. That one thing, is cake.

With the promise of cake in mind, I sprinted to the dance floor. Only to realize I can't dance. Oh well, if Pinkie can do it, I can do it.

Oh how false that statement would prove.

Ten Minutes later

Man, you suck some serious sack at dancing.

Fatigued already, I made my way to the cake that I was promised.

Damn, I didn't know you were fat in a past life.

You can stab me, burn me, send me the deepest pits of Tartarus, but you do not FUCK WITH CAKE. Cake is all that is good in life. It,s pure, it won't judge you, it will listen to you, and it wants to be your friend. But most importantly, it is delicious. I used to carry a slice of cake around in my saddlebags when I used to work in a team. They would always ask why I would bring it. I would answer with 'Cake is credit to team." They never understood that statement, even with their dying breaths. I once met a stallion from Stalliongrad with a similar fetish, but with sandwiches. When he said it though, his accent made it 'sandvich.'

Taking a slice of this divine sweet, I was approached by a couple of mares. One was a mint green unicorn with a similar mare, but with a white stripe in it. She had yellow eyes and a lyre for her cutie mark. The other was a pale tan earth pony with a navy blue and pink man. She had blue eyes and presumably three piece of candy for a cutie mark.

The tan one spoke up "Nice moves on the dance floor."

It was complete and utter sarcasm at its most refined.

Playing along "Yeah, I guess they were pretty sweet. Now, I'll have to ask you to stop basking in my awesome without some sort of payment."

They laughed. It made my coolness level increase by twenty percent.

"Anyway, I'm Lyra and this is Bon Bon."

"I'm Sigma."

"We know."

Wow, they said that simultaneously.

!

"How do you know my name?"

"There's a banner in the middle of the room that says 'Welcome to Ponyville Sigma'"

"Obviously."

If those to are together, the unicorn is on the bottom.

How can you tell?

She doesn't have enough testosterone in her to do anything but add-on to Bon Bon's sentences.

Huh, seems legit.

"Anyway, this party seems a little juvenile, anything real to drink around here."

"Wait a sec, let me get you something to drink."

"Thanks Lyra."

An awkward silence followed until Lyra came back with a cup of punch that I hope was spiked. One smell of it confirmed that.

"Bottoms Up."

And with that, the rest of my night became a blur.

Meanwhile Outside

A pair of ponies waited in a dark alley, one a mare in the prime of her life. The other a young colt, filled with arrogance and inexperience.

"Hey boss, when do we strike?"

The mare with the amethyst eyes didn't even look at her insubordinate when he asked that.

"When our insider gathers all the intelligence we need and when he isn't in a public place."

That earned an upset groan from the colt.

"Patience, our victory will be sweet if we savor it. And I don't want to blow our disguises on a frontal assault."

The Hangover

Waking up is hard to do, we all know that. Trying to get up after a night of partying is even harder. I was at a party last night, and I like to party hard. Back when I in the League of Extraordinary Gentlecollts, or better known as the Brotherhood, I drank like a fish. When I wasn't on the job, or if the job was boring, I drank. Majority of my time I spent either drunk or with a hangover. Being a unicorn, I decided to create a spell that got rid of hangovers. I never taught this spell to another pony and I never will. Everypony I ever met agreed that that spell was the greatest one in the history of epic party spells. I disagree, I would rather have a spell that summoned cake. However, the cake summoning spell would be obsolete now because I have Pinkie Pie and all the sweets she makes.

Now, I had a hangover and said spell would fix that. Casting it took little energy, a good thing to. How many of you have any energy in the mornings? With my headache gone, I focused on my other senses. I was on something soft, there was somepony snoring next to me, and my crotch hurt. Even without the hangover spell, I am still extremely slow at the beginning of the day.

You're slow any time of day.

It took me an entire five minutes to figure out what happened last night, I didn't like it.

My eyes shot open, the light burned. Ignoring the burning sensation and letting my eyes adjust, I realized I didn't have a clue where I was.

Wow, this is the third day in a row that this has happened. You get the derp award.

Once my eyes had adjusted, I looked to see that there was indeed somepony sleeping next to me. My number three fear had become real. There was a stallion sleeping right next to me.

Holy sweet Celestia, what happened last night.

I don't know, but I wanted answers, and this stallion probably had some. I was about to buck him off the bed when I realized something. This red earth pony stallion is bigger than me. By a lot.

That's what she said. And why is waking up next to a stallion lower on your list than waking up next to a mare?"

Because I can beat the crap out of a random stallion, I can't do the same to a mare. Its just not right.

So instead of bucking him as hard as I could.

I'm sure you two bucked each other plenty last night.

I only pushed him.

...

It didn't work.

You'll have to push harder than that.

Fuck you brain.

Why so serious?

You know what? Fuck it, I went ahead and bucked him pretty hard.

Good news, it woke him up. Bad news, he looked really pissed off.

With a look that can only be described as being the single most violent face of all time ever, he said "Ah am gonna count to three, and you better run little colt."

"With pleasure."

And I ran. I ran like there was a giant red stallion chasing me with a look of vengeance in his eyes, and there was.

Hey stupid, teleport to the library

Why the library?

Do you have any better ideas?

Point taken. I started to charge up my magic, it was a three second charge time. Upon discharging the spell, I ended up exactly where I wanted to be. Problem is, my aim was off.

I'm not even going to say something there, its that obvious.

Anyway, long story short, I ended up on the second floor. In the air. In Twilight's room. Right above Twilight.

Wow, bed hopping now are we?

I wish I had wings at that time cause I fell right on Twilight. The response to this action is a very pissed off Twilight, who deemed it completely necessary to throw me across the room.

"Okay, I deserved that."

Looking up, I saw a pissed off Twilight, who looked like she wanted to kill me. And she probably did. Lucky for me, she was hungover and when she was barely through the first word of her rant, she covered her ears. Maybe if I get rid of it for her, she won't be mega pissed at me.

Or maybe she'll kill you, I say run while you can.

I'm not listening to you for moral advice. I walked up to Twilight and cast the spell on her, negating the effects of the bitch known as a hangover. She seemed surprised when the pain vanished.

"I got rid of the hangover for you, now please don't throw me across the room again."

In a very soft voice she replied "Okay."

"If you would be kind enough to tell me what happened last night, I would be grateful. It appears I can't remember anything past drinking the punch."

Twilight started to laugh a little bit.

"Whats so funny?"

"Did Lyra give you the punch?"

"Yes, why?"

"Because Lyra has been known to drug the punch glasses, one of the effects is memory loss."

OH THAT IS ONE CLEVER BITCH!

"I can see your confused, I'll tell you what I remember if you tell me why you fell one me."

"Deal."

We walked down to the kitchen area, where Spike was making breakfast.

"Good morning Twilight."

"Good morning Spike."

All I got was a nasty glare. It made me chuckle again.

Twilight started "Alright, tell me why you landed on top of me?"

"Well you see, I woke up this morning with a nasty hangover and no memory of what happened last night. Casting a spell to get rid of hangovers I-"

"Wait, you know a spell to get rid of hangovers. Can you teach it to me?"

"No."

This was followed by a sad face and a really adorkable please.

"Sorry Twilight, its my patented spell, get your own."

"Actually Sigma, I have five of those."

There goes my sense of being unique.

"Anyway, as I was saying. After casting that spell, I looked around and noticed that there was a stallion sleeping right next to me. He was a red earth pony that looked like he could pull a house. I couldn't wake him in the usual way, so I kinda bucked him off the bed. Not my best idea, but I've woken up to worse. He got uber pissed and started chasing me around like he was going to kill me. So for my personal safety, I teleported out of there. Problem is, I'm pretty bad at teleportation and it was the morning, so I ended up falling on top of you."

Twilight was trying to contain her laughter and doing a decent job of it. Spike on the other had, wasn't even trying. He was trying to talk at the same time, but all that came out was gibberish.

Controlling herself Twilight began to recount her tale,

New Friends, Old Enemies

There is a challenge to teleportation. It is not only a difficult spell to perform, but it also is a very draining spell. Most unicorns can't do it. The few that can are limited to one jump (Unless your Twilight, then your just OP). Any more than that and you have a very good chance of going into a state known as magic withdrawal. Magic withdrawal is like starvation and dehydration; while you feel like your really thirst or hungry, but satisfying it takes a while. For instance, if you haven't eaten in over a week and suddenly have access to a lot of food, you will stuff yourself and get sick. Your body isn't used to processing that much and will reject it from your body in the form of vomit. You have to eat what you can handle over the course of days to get your strength back. Magic withdrawal is like that, only it takes roughly a week or two to get back your power. While the physical effects of it are relatively few, you will get constant migraines for the first half of it. That will effectively make you unable to perform magic until they stop.

Luckily, I didn't burn out my magic reservoir. I know what my limits are and right now I can't perform magic for the rest of the day.

Now, as I was coming out of the teleport, I felt something constrict around my horn. I couldn't see it because my eyes were all derpy and stuff. The thing around was rough and extremely tight.

Bow chicka bow wow. All funniness aside, your back to square one. Or should I say, hole one.

Really? Two jokes in one thought. And they're both fucking gross.

Seriously, look what your horn is stuck in.

Focusing was hard to do, but when I did, I found my horn stuck in something. My brain was right, I'm back at the beginning.

At least your not in the ground this time. Look at the bright side.

What bright side?

The invisible one. This is fucking funny. You got wood dude.

"FUCK YOU BRAIN!"

I think you said that to loud. some fillies might have heard that.

"I don't give a shit you fucking asshole."

"Uh mister, who are you talking to and why is your horn in a tree?"

"Because this is how I spend my days now. With my horn stuck in a hole."

Bow chicka bow wow.

"I swear on the blood of my first born, I will kill you if you don't shut up" I grumbled to myself.

"What did ya say now?" said a voice that had a very familiar accent.

"Funny, you sound like a little Applejack."

"That's cause Ah'm her sister."

"Cool, can you help me out?"

"With what?" said a second voice.

"Getting my horn out of this tree."

"Sure, maybe we can get our cutie marks." the second voice said.

Then a spontaneous and deafening "CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS..."

"Uh, what're we doin?"

"I don't know, lets figure it out later."

"I know! lets pull on him until he comes loose." said a squeaky third voice.

Before I could object, my flank was grabbed by three little sets of hooves and was pulled on like none other.

Dammit, left my swag on. Now the fillies are all over me.

This continued for about a minute before one of them came up with something else.

"Ah have an idea. Lets get mah sister to buck his horn out of the tree."

The other two chipped in "Thats a great idea."

Before my opinion was heard, they went off like Rainbow Dash when she sees a hot mare.

"Fuck this shit, I'm getting myself out."

I charged my magic like I would if I impaled my horn on somepony.

Your going to burn out.

Ignoring my brain, I discharged my magic. Unlike my brain told me, my idea worked and the tree exploded from my awesome. But, I over extended my magic and got a migraine.

Fuck you, I'm gonna go on ahead and not get up from this one.

Agreed, and with that I passed out... again.

The glow of a pair of amethyst, crimson, and blue eyes could be seen in the darkness.

"See, now all we have to do is kill him and take his horn."

"Piece of cake."

Before the two could make a move, the voice of the colt called out "Wait, if we take him back to our boss, then we might get paid more."

The crimson eyes shift towards him with a quizzical look "Getting greedy now aren't we? Where did you find this colt anyway?"

"He was an orphan in Canterlot" said the mare with the amethyst eyes.

"Whatever, I'm going to go over there, kill him, and take his horn."

The colt spoke up "But we could get paid more if we took Sigma to the boss."

Crimson eyes replied with a growl "We are not taking that risk and if you like living then shut up."

Amethyst spoke up "He has a point, Sigma just had a burn out and won't be able to perform event the simplest of magic for at least a week. We take him with us."

Crimson let out a sigh "Alright, but our driver won't like it."

"She will manage."

Scootaloo hid in the underbrush near the forest, watching as three ponies in cloaks take Sigma away.

I wonder where they're taking him? Should I get help? Maybe I should stop them. What does his cutie mark mean?

She was at a loss of action.

Those ponies don't look nice. Whatever it is they want, it can't be good. If I go and get help, they will have left already. But I can't stop them. They are a lot bigger than me.

With all this in mind, she made the most important decision in the story. In a whisper, she said:

"Cutie Mark Crusader Stalkerloo."

The Long Road Ahead

The three cloaked ponies approached the caravan. They had nothing with them but a very big bag that occasionally made some noise. Nothing suspicious at all.

The amethyst eyed mare spoke up. "Almost there, set him down.

The colt obeyed with much grunting. "Damn he's heavy, what does he eat?"

Miss Amethyst said "you two stay here, I'll go tell the driver the change in plans. Make sure he doesn't wake up until we get to Los Pegasus."

She got a nod in return from the other two.

Amethyst eyes walked up to the blue unicorn mare.

"There's been a change in plan, we have some baggage."

The unicorn replied "No problem, should have figured there would be."

"Good, then we will get aboard and leave at once."

"Fine by me."

Amethyst walked back and said "Is he still asleep?"

Crimson said "Duh, he is snoring."

"Muffle it, I don't want the driver to suspect anything. Take him to the caravan and hide him."

Crimson looked at the colt "She means you."

The colt started to whine about it before Amethyst shot him a look that shut him up immediately.

The colt went on and picked Sigma up and walked back to the caravan muttering something about sexism and inequality.

Amethyst looked at crimson and said "Saddle up, we're leaving."

Crimson let out a sigh "I will miss Ponyville while I'm gone, are you sure that you need my help?"

"I know you will, I miss Canterlot already, but we have a job and none of us will have to do anything in years if we do this right." Amethyst said sadly.

They started to walk to the caravan when Crimson said "Lets just get the job done and see what happens."

Scootaloo had heard most of the conversation. Still unsure of what to do, she thought to herself.

Last chance to bail out. Should I? It sounds like I'm getting in way over my head. But if I don't go, I may not get my cutie mark and Sigma will be in a lot of trouble. I know I just met him, but he seems like a good guy. I know, what would Rainbow Dash do?

She pondered this for a little while, oblivious to the fact that Rainbow Dash wouldn't help Sigma at all. So she did what she assumed Rainbow Dash would do.

Rainbow Dash would help anypony when they're in trouble. If I help Sigma, that will impress her.

She stopped thinking and sighed.

I guess its now or never.

And with that final thought, she chased after the caravan.

Appleboom and Sweetie Belle had just gotten back to the farm when they realized that Scootaloo was missing.

"Hey, where's Scootaloo?" Sweetie asked.

"Ah don't know, Ah reckin' that she's back with that stallion." Applebloom answered.

"Why do you think she stayed?"

"Probably ta keep him company." Applebloom answered again.

"Yeah, your right." Sweetie agreed.

"Ah'm always right." Applebloom said cockily.

"No your not." Sweetie argued.

"Yes Ah am." Applebloom replied.

"No your not." Sweetie said again, this time with greater volume.

"Yes Ah am." Applebloom replied with equal volume to Sweetie Belle.

"NO YOUR NOT." Sweetie Belle screamed.

"Oh yeah, prove me wrong." Applebloom challenged.

"Okay, give me a second." Sweetie said.

But before she could answer, they bumped into Applejack.

"Howdy girls,what're y'all doin'" Applejack greeted.

"We were looking for you so you could help us get Sigma's horn out of a tree.

Applejack's expression fell faster than an airborne Rarity.

"Ah don't want any of y'all gettin' near that stallion. He's a bad influence." Applejack said sternly.

"But why?" the two girls said.

"Ah don't like him. He creeps me out."

"Is this like the time you were creeped out by Zecora?" Applebloom said, clearly not amused.

"No, Ah have a few reasons this time." Applejack said.

"Like what?" Applebloom said.

"Like he hit our brother, Fluttershy, and Spike. He made fun of Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie. And he threatened Twilight." Applejack said in a monotone. "And where's Scootaloo?" She said with a bit more curiosity.

Applebloom and Sweetie Belle looked at each other.

"Ah think we were wrong about him, Sweetie Belle." Applebloom said sadly.

"I think your right." Sweetie Belle.

They both were wallowing in their sadness when they both realized somepony was missing.

They perked up instanly and yelled "Scootaloo" simultaneously.

Applebloom looked at her sister and said "Applejack, Scootaloo's still with him!"

This alarmed Applejack and she said one thing "Take me to him, now."

Applebloom and Sweetie Belle didn't even respond, they just started running towards the spot. Applejack followed closely behind.

She whispered to herself "If anything happens to Scootaloo, Ah'll kill him." and she meant every word of her promise.

I woke up to the darkness of the world and a terrible migraine. At first I thought that I was dreaming, but my brain was sure to let me know that this was real.

Where the fuck are we.

Dreaming.

No, dreams don't hurt this much.

I was about to object when I heard voices.

"Are you sure this was a good idea?" said a voice.

Strange, I've heard that voice before...

"Of course it is. The only thing this does is complicate our plans a bit." said a more refined voice.

The voice of a very nervous colt sounded off "What if he gets loose?"

The refined voice answered "Even if he did escape, his magic had a blowout earlier today. He won't be casting a spell anytime soon. And even if he could, he has an inhibitor ring around his horn."

The colt spoke again "But from what you told me, he doesn't need magic to be dangerous."

The familiar voice spoke again "True, but even if he does get out, the migraine he has will make him weak. Not to mention, we're trained to handle any situation that might arise from him. Even if he did get out and over-power us, he still wouldn't get very far. The injuries that he will have sustained plus the migraine that he has will prevent him from getting very far. Either way, we will get what we want."

The colt spoke again, this time much more calm. "Good, how much farther is it to Los Pegasus?"

The refined voice replied "Four to Five days, depending on how fast we go."

Once this registered, my brain had one thought that was more of a statement than a question.

We're so fucked, aren't we.

Yes, yes we are.

A Race Against Time

Applejack, Applebloom, and Sweetie Belle arrived where Sigma was last seen. For reasons unknown to them, he wasn't there.

Applejack looked at Applebloom and growled "Where is he?"

"Ah don't know, he was right over there. Right where..that tree...was." Applebloom said. Whatever she was going to say was lost when she say the remnants of the tree stump.

They all stared at it until Sweetie Belle broke the silence "What happened to the tree?"

"Ah don't know, but whatever happened must've been real powerful." Applejack chimed in.

The silence continued for thirty seconds when Applebloom asked "What do we do sis?"

Without looking at her, Applejack said "The only thing we can do, get Twilight. She'll know what to do." Applejack turned around and said "Come on girls, your comin' with me."

The girls both started whining about how they wanted to stay.

Applejack answered "Ah don't wanna see either of you get hurt. ah know you wanna look for Scootaloo, but she can take care of herself."

"But what if something happened to her?" Sweetie Belle asked?

"Ah'm pretty sure something did and for her sake, Sigma ain't the cause of this. If somethin' did happen to them, then she'll be safe around him. Ah hope." Applejack said worriedly.

"But what if Sigma is the reason Scootaloo's gone?" Applebloom asked.

"Then Ah reckin' we'll need help against him." Applejack answered.

"But why?" Sweetie aked.

Applejack came clean on this one and said "Its cause Ah reckin' that he's a dangerous sort and as much as Ah hate to admit it, Ah don't think Ah'm strong enough to fight him. Now come on, we need to get back to Ponyville."

Sweetie Belle and Applebloom didn't complain any further. They followed Applejack silently back to town.

Dude, this fucking sucks big balls. First, you piss off Twilight and her friends. Then you teleport into a tree and get your horn stuck in it. You also deemed it necessary to blow up said tree. This led to you having a burnout. You passed-out from the migraine that you still have and these low lives captured you while you were unconscious. Now, your locked in a cargo compartment with an inhibitor ring on that has been enchanted further to mute you. How fucked are you?

Royally, but your logic is flawed. First, your equally at fault for pissing off at least half of those ponies. Second, it was your idea to teleport to the library where we knew Twilight would be in the first place. Third, you and I both know that the ponies that captured us are clearly professionals and they have probably been stalking us us since we got here. Also, when those fillies left, they could've easily removed us and then captured us. Fourth, no matter how much I hate you, we are in this together.

Yeah, too bad Trixie isn't here to get us out of this one

Do you think she's still alive?

No idea. After what happened, it would surprise me if she was. If she is alive, then she probably wouldn't help us anyway.

I wonder how her traveling magic show went?

I don't know, we'll ask Twilight if we ever see her again.

I miss Trixie.

Me too bro, me too.

Applejack had gathered the girls up. She didn't tell them what was going on at the time because she needed all that time to gather them and get going.

"So, what is so important enough that you had to bring me to the Everfree at this time. I am late for my appointment at the spa." Rarity complained.

"Quit whining Rarity." Rainbow said.

Rarity shot Rainbow a look and said "I am not whining, I am complaining."

"What's the difference?" Rainbow said lazily.

Before Rarity could demonstrate, Applejack interupted. "Rarity, this used to involve Sweetie Belle, that's why you're here."

Rarity groaned "What did she do this time."

"All ya need to know right now is that it involved Sigma." Applejack answered.

There was a groan from everypony there, including Fluttershy.

"Oh, and it also involves Scootaloo." Applejack added.

"What happened?" Twilight asked.

"Ah don't know Twi, Ah was hopin' that you could tell us." Applejack said.

"So what do you know Applejack?" Rainbow asked.

"That Sigma teleported and his horn got stuck in a tree." Applejack answered.

Rainbow started laughing once she heard this.

"AND" Applejack yelled to they could hear her. "That tree is now scattered all over the place from some sort of explosion."

"Anything else?" Twilight asked.

"Scootaloo was near when it happened and now she's gone." Applejack replied.

Rainbow sobered up fast once she heard this. "If he laid one hoof on her, I'm gonna knock his flank to next Tuesday."

Pinkie added "Silly Rainbow, tomorrow's Tuesday."

Fluttershy said "Maybe he didn't have anything to do with it."

"That's what Ah'm thinkin' Flutteshy." Applejack said.

Twilight spoke up "It would make sense Fluttershy, he said he was running from somepony when I interviewed him. Maybe they found him."

"Do you know why?" Rarity asked

"No, he refused to tell me who it was or why he was running." Twilight answered.

Before they could answer, the arrived at the sight.

"Alright Twi, you go on ahead and start looking around." Applejack said.

30 minutes later

"Alright" Twilight begun. "It appears that it was Sigma who blew up the tree, but Scootaloo wasn't hurt in the blast. Thats the good news."

"Whats the bad news?" Applejack asked.

"The bad news is that I was right and he was taken by a group of ponies-" Twilight started to say but was interrupted by Rainbow Dash.

"How is that bad news? That's great news. We'll never have to see his sorry flank again."

"Please let me finish." Twilight said.

When Rainbow didn't respond, Twilight continued. "Anyway, he was taken by a group of ponies. Probably the same ones who were looking for him. The problem is is that Scootaloo was also taken or she decided it was a good idea to follow them."

That earned a gasp from the group.

"Wait, it gets worse." Twilight interjected. "Sigma probably had a burnout. Now, I personally don't think he would want Scootaloo in this with him so he might try to help her. But he won't be able to do much before they get to their destination. We have another problem as well. They didn't leave much of a trail and what little there is has gone cold. So we can't track them."

This simmered for a couple seconds before Rainbow spoke up. "So what do we do?"

"The only thing we can do, go to los Pegasus and try and find who would want Sigma." Twilight said. "If we leave tonight by train, we can get there in two days."

"What about the fillies?" Rarity asked.

"Granny Smith can take care of them." Applejack answered.

"Its settled then. Meet me at the train station at six tonight." Twilight said.

Scootaloo was tired. She had gone all day without food or water.

Why did I do this again? She asked herself.

Her hooves were hurting and she needed a break. But what she needed more was a plan.

Think Scootaloo think.

She continued on for a while before an idea came to her. What she didn't know is that this plan was extremely risky and it required for her not to be recognized.

The mane six were on board the train headed to Los Pegasus when a question came up.

"Have any of you been to Los Pegasus?" Twilight asked.

All of them gave an answer of no in one form or another, except Rainbow Dash.

"Well, whats it like darling?" Rarity asked.

"I'll tell you guys tomorrow." Rainbow said. "Its late and I'm going to sleep."

Scootaloo saw that the caravan had stopped and she prepared herself.

Alright, lets get my story straight. I ran away from home and have been on my own for a couple days now. Yeah, that'll work.

She looked at her reflection in a nearby stream.

Hmm, I don't look like I have, I'll fix that.

She then went to putting mud in her mane and on her coat. Once she decided that she looked her part, she started to walk to the caravan.

Alright, moment of truth. Maybe I'll get my cutie mark in acting. She thought happily to herself.

But when she walked into the firelight, she saw a mare that she thought she would never see again.

"Trixie?"

Similarities

Trixie looked up from the fire. When her eyes met Scootaloo's, they went from the hostility that was in them earlier to a more suspicious attitude. They glared into her very being, making her tremble.

When Trixie spoke, the area dropped a couple of dgrees. "How do you know Trixie's name?" Her voice did not hide her suspicion. "And who are you?"

Scootaloo was scared, and that was obvious to both of them. Summoning what courage she could, she spoke up. "I'm Scootaloo. You never met me, but I saw your show back in Ponyville."

Trixie mentally fliched at the memory of her last visit. Then she was filled with rage. A rage that was caused by those two idiots.

Who were they again. Bah, doesn't matter. I still will extract my vengeance on them.

Forcing the memories back down, Trixie asked in an even colder voice than before. "Why are you here?"

Scootaloo was ready for this one. Without any hesitation or sign of nervousness that she had before , she said. "I ran away from home a couple days ago."

Trixie almost laughed at this. "Why, did your parents make you eat your vegetables?"

Now it was Scootaloo's turn to have a trip down memory lane. The memories of never having parents to look out for her filled her mind. She sat down. The little filly had no answer for this one. The gap in her life hurt her more than anything else did. Tears started to swell in her eyes.

Trixie sobered up at once. She recognized this look. Trixie had hit a nerve and she knew it. Now, there was a crying filly in front of her with a beaten look on her face. But she must've been raised in a foster home, or at the very least, an orphanage.

Trixie's look softened significantly before asking. "Why don't you come her and eat. Dinner will be ready soon, if you want it."

Scootaloo wasn't listening, she was too far gone in her shitty memories of her 'home'.

Sighing, Trixie stood up and walked over to Scootaloo, placing a foreleg around her. "Trixie is sorry, she didn't know."

Scootaloo wasn't having any of it though. She pushed herself away from Trixie and said "Why should you be sorry, I didn't ask for your pity."

Sighing again, Trixie said "Trixie knows what its like not having parents."

Scootaloo's answer was short and aggresive "No you don't."

Trixie tried again to get to Scootaloo."If you think your the only one, you can think again. Trixie was in your hooves once and she knows what you need is somepony who has been in your situation. Somepony who knows what its like."

Scootaloo looked at Trixie. "Really?"

Trixie nodded.

Twilight was the only one left awake on the train. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't shake this feeling that they had bitten off a way bigger bite than the could chew. It was a sinking feeling in her stomach that told her that this wouldn't end well for any of them.

Why do I feel like this. It doesn't make any sense. I didn't even feel this overwhelmed when fighting Discord.

That wasn't the only thing bothering her. For some reason unknown to her, she couldn't stop thinking about Sigma.

Why am I thinking about him. That doesn't make any sense either. Where did he get all those scars? I heard Los Pegasus was bad from some of the guards back when I lived in Canterlot, but I didn't think it was that bad. Even more importantly, what would make a powerful stallion like Sigma run away with his tail between his legs. I don't think even Shining Armor could do that. I wonder if Celestia could. That would be interesting.

Her thoughts then went to the wedding. She realized that Celestia wasn't the most powerful being in existance, so it might be possible.

But if I'm afraid of Celestia, and I'm one of the most powerful unicorns in Equestria and Sigma isn't as powerful as me. Then wouldn't he be afraid of Celestia too? I'm going to have to ask him. Too bad I won't get much detail.

Shortly after, Twilight's brain got tired of thinking and retired for the night.

Scootaloo was sleeping on Trixie. Needless to say, it was extremely adorable.

Trixie wasn't asleep though, she was far from it. Her thoughts were on Scootaloo and her experiences.

Scootaloo's life wasn't as easy as I thought. Even if she was lucky enough to go to school, she'll never be able to fly as good as most pegasi. And she's an orphan who lives with an abusive foster family. That's gotta suck.

It was then that Trixie had an idea

I know. I'll let her come with me for a while. She can trust me, I've been through worse than what she has. My childhood was way worse than hers.

Then the reason she survived her childhood came back to mind.

Sigma, I miss you. I wonder if I will ever see you again. I hope so. But you probably don't want anything to do with me after what they made you do. I just hope you understand that its not my fault.

Little did Trixie know was that Sigma was at the most, a dozen feet away, locked in a cargo compartment.

You know how we're going to die and all.

Yeah, don't remind me.

I just realized that we're gonna die a virgin.

Fuck me, I don't wanna die one.

Hey, I wonder if we ask the boss nicely enough, he'll abduct a hot mare for us to fuck before we die. You know, as a last request sort of thing.

I hope so, but knowing him, we are going to get raped by a big ass stallion again and again if we ask.

True, but its worth a shot.

Agreed, we're totally going to ask him.

Amethyst wasn't sleeping. Her mind was on the money and what she'll do with it.

But her mind was on something else as well.

This job is too easy, there must be some kind of catch to it. I mean, we're suposed to take down a hitcolt that has never failed on a job or that has no equal in terms of skill. When we find him, he's partying like there's no tomorrow, drunk off his flank. He has no standards in terms of professionalism and he is extremely irresposible. But, he as taken down single-hoofidly numerous gangs and mobs, a small army of cannibals, and one of the biggest families on the strip. How the fuck is this him. It doesn't make any sense.

Her mind continued to argue that something was up, but her response was that she'll be rich.

I'll get those bits one way or another, or my name isn't Octavia.

Home

Three Days Later

Twilight and company walked out of the motel they were staying at. They didn't bother beginning their quest until morning so they could avoid suspicion and any trouble they might have. Once outside, Twilight realized how hard this would be. She had never been to Los Pegasus and the sheer volume of it was daunting.

"Alright, we should split up into three groups. Applejack and Rarity, you'll search the strip and casinos." Twilight said.

"You got it sugarcube."

"Rainbow, you and Pinkie search the downtown area."

"Why us? I want to search the strip." Rainbow Dash complained.

"Sorry Rainbow, but I want you to search the more dangerous areas." Twilight explained.

Hearing only a groan in return, Twilight continued. " Fluttershy, you and me are going to keep an eye on the traffic entering the city. That way if they're not here yet, we can catch them."

There were no objections so they set of to work.

Trixie looked over to Scootaloo. "Hey, we're going to be in Los Pegasus soon. Trixie doesn't want you to leave her side."

Scootaloo looked up at her and gave her those eyes that could spread diabetes, if diabetes existed. "Why do I have to?"

Trixie was unfazed by the eyes and said. "Los Pegasus is a dangerous place for a filly. Trixie knows this very well. That is why Trixie wants you near her."

Scootaloo was going to say something, but one of the foalnappers came out of the caravan and walked up to Trixie. "How much longer will this take. Some of us are getting restless."

Trixie didn't look at her but she said. "Within the hour."

Scootaloo glared at the bounty hunter. This was first contact with them and she wasn't about to be all smiles and sunshine to them.

The amethyst-eyed assassin didn't even glance her way. Instead she walked silently back to the caravan.

I wonder if Trixie knows anything about them. Scootaloo thought.

"Hey Trixie, who is that?"

Trixie looked at the filly and said. "Trixie doesn't have a clue. But her and her friends are strange. Trixie doesn't like them."

"I don't like them either." Scootaloo agreed.

They continued the rest of the voyage in silence.

"Hello and welcome to Caesars Palace. How might I be of assistance." The greeter said.

Applejack was about to say something, but Rarity said something first. "Yes, we are looking for a friend of ours. Unicorn stallion, above average height, pretty good build. Have you seen him?"

The greeter thought about it for a while before saying. "I'm sorry, there are at least a dozen stallions that match that description. Can you give me more details?"

Rarity nodded and continued "He has a navy blue and silver mane and tail. Both are scruffy. He has a lot of scars and his eyes are a bright red."

The greeter didn't need to think this time but asked suspiciously. "Is his cutie mark a weird cross between the letter 'E' and a 3?"

Applejack spoke up. "Yes have you seen him?"

But before the greeter answered, a unicorn acompanied walked up to the greeter. "Is there a problem?"

The greeter whispered something in his ear that made the susposed supervisor very mad.

He turned to the duo and spoke in a very harsh voice. "Get out of this establishment, we don't serve your kind here. Why don't you go to the Gomorrah where you degenerates belong."

Rarity huffed "Well then, if you won't be civil about this then I'll take my leave." She proceeded to walk out of Caesars Palace with her head held high. Applejack followed, but she muttered some very nasty things under her breath.

Rainbow and Pinkie had a great amount of luck in their search. Sigma was a legend to the ponies who lived in poverty. He was an icon to them and they were all extremely helpful. Of course it took a while before they would talk about him. They were eventually pointed in the direction of a pony that they all called Katar.

Rainbow and Pinkie approached a broken down pony who was on the last leg of the race known as life.

"Do you think thats him Pinkie?" Rainbow asked.

"Only one way to find out." Pinkie said happly and hopped over to him and asked "Are you Katar?"

The old pony didn't have the strength to look up but said. "No, Katar is my son. I am Synagogue." His voice was dry and raspy.

"Well where is he?" Rainbow asked.

Synagogue didn't answer but instead decided to start coughing up blood.

This worried Pinkie to no end. "Whats wrong with him. Rainbow, please fix it." Pinkie pleaded.

Rainbow was to stunned by this to do anything productive. Instead, a dull grey earth pony ran up to him and started doing stuff. From what Rainbow could tell, he appeared to be giving the old stallion water and some kind of medicine. After a good thirty seconds of watching, the old pony was sleeping.

This didn't let the stallion rest. Instead, it made him cry. This in turn made Pinkie's hair deflate and cry as well. It then donned on Rainbow that he wasn't asleep, but dead.

They all cried for a couple of minutes before the stallion looked at them and asked "Why have you come?" There was no happiness in his voice.

Rainbow answered. "We came looking for a pony named Katar. Have you seen him?"

"Your look at what's left of him."

Rainbow knew that she needed information and this guy had the answers, but he just lost his father. Rainbow spoke softly "We are looking for a stallion named Sigma. Have you seen him?"

Katar thought for a second before saying "Why are you looking for him?"

Pinkie said "Because he might be in trouble and we need to help him."

Katar laughed. "Sigma doesn't need help."

Rainbow said. "I know, but he might have a filly with him and he was captured by some ponies. He also had some sort of burnout with his magic."

Katar stopped laughing instantly. "Then we have no time to lose."

Pinkie was the first to respond. "Should you mourn the loss you have?"

Katar shook his head. "Yes, but there is a time and place for everything. I will mourn, but I don't want to lose my father and my best friend in the same day."

And with that, he took off. Leaving Rainbow and Pinkie behind.

"Lets go Pinkie, he might need our help."

Twilight and Fluttershy were bored. Fluttershy kept worrying about her animals and Sigma, Twilight was nervous about what they might find. There was a good chance that this would end badly.

Twilight was gazing lazily at the incoming caravans as those were the only ones that would matter. This continued on for two hours before something happened. And it wasn't Twilight who spotted her.

"Umm Twilight, isn't that Trixie?" Fluttershy asked.

Twilight looked to where Fluttershy was pointing and saw that it was indeed Trixie...and Scootaloo.

Twilight immediately went into action "Fluttershy, get the others and come back here."

Fluttershy let out something that past for okay and hurried off.

Twilight then ran straight at Trixie, catching her off guard. "Trixie, how could you do that?"

Trixie recognized Twilight and retorted. "Trixie has done nothing to offend you, now get out of Trixie's face!"

Twilight wouldn't budge. "Don't lie to me Trixie, I know that you foalnapped Scootaloo and Sigma."

Trixie's face got extremely angry. "How do you know that name?" Her voice was monotone and represented the element of being uber pissed.

Twilight yelled. "Because Sigma is a friend of mine. I know that he would never be seen in public with you."

Trixie started laughing, pissing the shit out of Twilight. "You ignorant foal, I've known Sigma since I was a filly. How dare you accuse me of abducting my best friend and this little filly I found in the middle of the road."

Scootaloo screamed "ENOUGH! Trixie, I lied to you. I didn't run away, I was following the ponies who foalnapped Sigma. The three in back are the ones that did it."

That shut up both Trixe and Twilight. The screaming left Scootaloo out of breath.

"Time to tie up loose ends." said a fourth voice.

Before Trixie and Twilight could react, a pony jumped on top of Twilight. Unable to do anything, Twilight started to struggle. While Trixie was distracted, she was hit with a knock-out spell. With Trixie out of the fight, the second assailent's attention turned to Twilight. The pony on top of Twilight started to choke her. After a good twenty seconds, Twilight passed out. Scootaloo was scared and in a corner. A third one came out of the shadows and bucked her in the head, knocking her out.

Amethyst looked at the others and said "We will bring all of them as a gift. Me and the kid will load them up, you will pull the caravan."

Crimson groaned. "Fine, but we better get extra for this."

Amethyst let out a small smile.

The Silent Night of Day

Applejack and Rarity approched the building known as the Gomorrah. The 'proprietors' outside of the building were doing exotic dances and claiming that they were one of many things waiting for them inside.

This was Rarity's reaction to them.

Oh my, how could anypony think about doing this for a living?

Applejack's was much more simple.

Its a good thing Rainbow ain't here.

They gave each other a look before heading inside.

The receptionist looked up and said "Welcome to the Gomorrah, how can we satisfy you today?"

Rarity ignored that statement and asked. "Thank you, but we are looking for a stallion named Sigma, do you know where we could find him?"

The receptionist looked up and said "Sorry, he hasn't been here in weeks. We don't know where he is."

Rarity sighed. "Do you know where he might be."

The receptionist sighed. "Unfortunately. He was the only stallion who was nice to me. Ask Silent Night, they used to talk to each other quite a bit."

"Thank you, now if you could be kind enough to point us in her direction, that would be most helpful." Rarity said.

"Third floor, room 357. Make sure you knock first." The receptionist warned.

"Thank ya kindly" Applejack said.

They continued on their journey, oblivious to who this pony was.

Applejack and Rarity exchanged few words on the way there. Mostly, they were to appalled at what they saw on the way there. Once they reached the door, Rarity knocked.

"Who is it?" A voice asked from inside.

"Some friends of Sigma's." Rarity said.

...

"Can we come in?" Rarity asked.

...

"Look sugarcube, we just want to talk to ya." Applejack said.

..."Go away." The voice said.

Applejack snapped. "Ah don't have time for this. There is a little filly in danger and we need answers NOW."

"Why should I waste my time?"

Rarity spoke up. "We can make it worth your while."

Applejack looked at Rarity and whispered. "Why'd ya say that?"

"Because money is the language of business and I think she'll listen to us for something in return."

"Come in, slowly." The voice said.

Rarity opened the door and slowly entered. The room had no lights and there was an air of uneasiness to the room. Applejack started follow Rarity but the voice told them that only one was allowed. Applejack grudgingly walked out. Once she left, the door slammed shut, leaving Rarity in darkness.

"Why have you come?" The voice said.

Rarity, while she may not have shown it, was scared. She kept a level head while she answered. "Sigma was captured by some ponies. A filly saw it and decided that it was a good idea to follow him. We came because we need to know where they might be."

The voice was quite for a while before saying. "Sigma doesn't require our help."

"My concern does not rest with him but the filly that followed them. She is a friend of my sister's."

"Were you there?"

"No, no one was there."

"Then how do you know?" The voice asked.

"Because..."

"Exactly. You don't know."

"I placed my faith in that my friend was right. Its all I could do."

"I know. You aren't the only one who has."

Rarity asked. "So will you help us?"

The voice paused before answering. "Yes, but I want one hundred bits for my services if it turns out you wasted my time."

Rarity's jaw dropped. She regained her composure before saying. "Isn't that a little to much?"

"No, and you only have to pay me if your wrong about this."

Rarity was going to bargain some more but a feeling in her gut told her not to. "You have a deal."

"Good, give me thirty seconds once you leave."

The door opened and Rarity left.

Applejack looked at her and asked. "What happened?"

Rarity asked "Nothing, but on the off chance that we're wrong about this, do you have fifty bits to spare?"

Applejack glared at her. "What did ya do this time?"

She never got an answer as the door opened and a dark purple pegasus walked out. "Lets go, and tell me everything you know."

Katar and company were running at their top speeds.

Rainbow asked "Why are we running?"

"Because Sigma is going to be in a LOT of trouble real soon."

"What kind of trouble?"

"If the boss gets a hold on him, Sigma is going to experience more pain and suffering than anypony before him."

"Like what?" Pinkie asked.

"I don't know, but he has done things worse than killing before."

"What about Scootaloo?" Rainbow asked.

"I can only hope it will be quick and painless."

They kept running until the ran into Rarity, Applejack and the purple pegasus.

"Rainbow, Pinkie Pie!" Applejack exclaimed.

They all stopped and looked at each other.

The pegasus saw Katar and said "Katar, I thought that you were busy being all wimpy."

Katar glared at her. "Silent Night, I knew I sensed a bitch nearby."

They both continued to glare at each other for a few seconds before they burst out laughing.

"Its good to see you again Katar."

"You too."

Rainbow was confused by this. "Whats going on here?"

"Just lamenting in old memories." Katar said.

Silent Night asked. "You get roped into this Sigma thing too?"

"Yeah, they got me in this too. Do you think their actually trying to help him."

"No, their in this for the filly that may or may not be with him."

"Regardless, we should help them."

Rainbow looked at them and said. "Come on, we're wasting precious time."

Silent and Katar nodded and they went forward.

Amethyst looked at them and said. "Here we are. This is where we are supposed to be."

Crimson sighed. "I take it that we aren't going to be meeting our employer directly?"

"No, but we will get paid."

"Dammit, you know how much I hate working for a faceless employer."

"I know, but at least be satisfied that he will be in the same building as us."

The building itself was as big as the Gomorrah. Officially, it was a tenant. While it was still used as one, the top three floors and the basement were reserved for the owners. The three hitcolts were in the nearby alley, waiting for the contractors representative.

"I take it you did your job?"

"Yes, the body as well as those who got in our way are inside the caravan."

"Dead?"

"No, I thought that our employer would like to have some fun with him before we killed him."

"This is good, I'm sure you'll be paid extra for the initiative. Come with me, I think its time you met the boss."

"About damn time." Crimson muttered.

"What about the prisoners?" Amethyst asked.

"Don't worry, we'll send somepony for them. What state are they in?"

"Sigma is awake, but dehydrated and he hasn't eaten in four days. The rest are unconscious."

"Good, follow me now."

The group ran until they got to the entrance.

Silent looked at Rainbow and asked "Where is this unicorn of yours?"

"I don't know she was supposed to be here."

"Oh thank goodness I found you." said Fluttershy, spontaneously out of nowhere.

"What happened to Twilight Fluttershy?" Rainbow asked.

"She ran into Trixie and then she told me to find you." Fluttershy said. "Scootaloo was with Trixie."

Rainbow growled. "Great, now we have to deal with that loudmouth. Come on Applejack, its payback time."

Silent stayed to her namesake and remained silent. Katar said. "Good, then Scootaloo's is in good hooves."

Rarity's jaw dropped. "What, how could you say that?"

Katar looked at her and said. "If you knew what we knew, then you would agree with us. Scootaloo is safe for now."

Applejack said "Enough, we're wastin' our time here. Where else could Sigma be."

Silent looked at Katar, who proceeded to gulp. "I may have spoken too soon about Scootaloo being safe. If Sigma was captured and they used a hired caravan, then Trixie might be in danger too."

Silent spoke up and said. "Yeah, we better get going. Sigma will kill both of us if he knew that Trixie was in trouble."

Katar looked at the five other ponies. "Silent Night would never admit it, but we are going to need your help."

Rarity said "You got it."

"Um sure." Fluttershy said hesitantly.

"Ah guess ah don't have much choice."

"Okie Dokie Lokie."

"Fine, but only because Twilight's in trouble."

Old Friends, New Enemies

Amethyst stood at attention in the middle of a dark room. Unlike the upper class mare, the other two elected to slouch.

"Will you two pull yourselves together? Your making us look like fools." Amethyst said.

The colt obeyed his superior while Crimson payed no attention at all. In fact, Crimson decided to do something so uncouth, Rarity might have fainted from it. She farted, loudly.

Amethyst was trying to hide her anger at the time for this. The colt was trying to hide his laughter to the point his face was screwed up.

They waited for a couple seconds before Crimson added. "Oh man, that one smells worse than the bathroom after Tavi takes a laxative."

Amethyst or 'Tavi' (Because its Octavia, screw you. If you haven't figured it out by now, your retarded.) was blushing from embarrassment on top of barely containing her anger. The colt was failing in his attempt to laugh and started to snicker.

"Wait, I think I feel another one coming." Crimson said, right before sneezing and farting at the same time.

The colt couldn't take it anymore and neither could Octavia. "Vinyl, thats enough! Do you want to embarrass us in front of the most powerful pony in Los Pegasus?"

Vinyl (If you couldn't figure that out too, you have the detective skills of the mole on my ass) said. "Relax Tavi, we're the only ponies in this room."

Just then, a pair of yellow eyes showed up. Octavia gulped silently. Vinyl got her act together. The colt wanted to wet himself.

"Unfortunately, Octavia is right. I have been here the entire time. And I am not amused with your behavior Ms. Scratch."

Vinyl shrugged. "Whatever, you aren't paying us to be polite."

"Yes, lets get to that part of the contract and get this over with." Octavia added.

Yellow Eyes was passive about it. "Of course, and for your initiative to capture him alive, I've decided to double your current payment."

The new payment made Vinyl start drooling and Octavia to drop her jaw slightly.

Yellow was pushed the matter further. "I could use a couple of mares like you in our outfit. I could put you on as an operative for me."

Vinyl was still drooling so Octavia said. "Let us talk it over and we'll give you an answer."

"Of course, agent Xero will show you out."

"Are you sure that this is the right building?" Rainbow asked.

They were standing outside of a large building that was for economic housing. The tenant was littered in graffiti and the outside was poorly kept.

"Yes, this is where we were all stationed back in the days when we worked as a team." Katar said.

"Do you think that some of the others will still be there?" Rarity asked.

"Definitely, but they won't be our team members. We all disbanded to do our own things. Like I went to study medicine and Trixie became an entrepreneur. But not all of us left our past behind. Sigma went on to private contracting and Silent Night went into espionage work, I think." Katar explained.

"How many of ya were there?" Applejack asked.

"Six. Sigma, Trixie, Katar, me, a mute griffin called Razor Wing, and a changeling called Mirrors Edge." Silent answered.

"Wait, you had a changeling as a friend?" The mane five asked at once.

"This isn't Equestria, we don't have a grudge against them." Katar said.

"But-"

"But nothing, we're wasting time here. Lets go." Katar said, getting annoyed.

And with that they ran to the doors, busting them down.

Two ponies in the front lobby went to subdue them, but Silent Night jumped on top of one and snapped his neck. Katar countered a hoof strike by grabbing the limb and breaking it at the joint. Before she could scream, he jabbed her hard in the neck, crushing her windpipe. He let go of her and on the way down, bucked her in the side of the head, knocking her out.

Silent looked at him and said. "Seems like an awful lot of work to knock somepony out instead of kill them."

Katar shook his head. "I may have been a killer by nature, but I took an oath that I wouldn't kill unless absolutely necessary after we disbanded."

The other five were in shock. Rainbow was about to throw up. Pinkie Pie's hair deflated. Fluttershy cowered behind her mane. Rarity's jaw dropped. Applejack gulped.

This made Silent laugh. "Get used to it. This isn't going to be the last time you see a corpse."

Sigma looked into the eyes of his former boss.

No matter how many times we've looked into his eyes, I still don't see a soul.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find any existence of one, ever.

"So, you thought you could run and hide from me? You thought that the past couldn't keep up with you? You are my property and I will not let you forsake my love for you and abandon me when I tell you to do something. What do you have to say for yourself."

Fuck you, you old bastard.

"Fuck you, if I wasn't tied up and my magic depleted, I would kill you. I would rip out your eyes and piss in your head. I would go back in time and rape your mom until she got pregnant with you, then I would feed your mom to the White Hoof Society as a token of sacrifice. I would send you to Tartarus so you could be turned into glue you old bastard." I then spat on his hooves.

Holy shit man.

He growled at me and I found myself being choked by an unknown force.

Great, he can do magic.

"This could've been easy, Sigma. But now you involved Trixie, Twilight Sparkle, and a little filly in this. The more you piss me off, the worse it'll be for them." Yellow growled.

Before I could make it worse for myself, a pony interrupted our little reunion. "Sir, seven ponies have inflitrated our compound. Two of them are former operatives Katar and Silent Night."

The boss smiled. "Good, send the bounty hunters to deal with them."

The mare saluted. "Yes sir."

Yellow turned his attention back to me. "You hear that boy? Its the sound of all your friends coming to their doom." He started laughing.

Katar and Silent Night might be considered our friends, but who are the others.

I don't know, Trixie never was good at making friends. The filly must have been one of the ones from the tree incident. So that leaves Twilight...

Oh shit.

The seven ponies continued to run up the steps.

"How much further?" Rarity panted.

"Once we get through this door, then we'll be in the private section." Katar answered.

Rainbow didn't wait for the others, she slammed herself against the door, hard. The door flew off its hinges and fell a few feet back.

The rest gathered on the other side of the door. The path that they were going through was blocked.

By three ponies.

One F***ed up Piece of S***

One F***ed up Piece of S***

The silence between the two groups was thick. Nopony dared break it, lest it start the fight. The three robed figures stood there, their hoods covering their eyes. While they would prove much more difficult, all they had to do was stall and kill the others. The group that has souls in it stood with determined faces on. Well, all of them but Fluttershy.

The silence was only broken by the sounds of hoofsteps approaching. In a few seconds, ponies of all kinds crowded the room. Two dozen in all.

"Well fuck." Katar said.

Once the words left is mouth, Silent rushed them. She was closely followed by Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Katar.

The three assassins backed out of the brawl, so they wouldn't waste their energy.

Silent struck first, using her speed to headbutt the first pony. Once he was on the ground, she turned her attention to another who was about to hit her. Using the bone-breaker that Kater did earlier, she destroyed his foreleg before moving onto another.

Applejack sprinted into the nearest pony, knocking her down. A colt that was a bit bigger than her rushed her and was about to tackle Applejack, but he never made it because Applejack bucked him in the face.

Pinkie Pie seemed like she wasn't even taking this seriously because all she did was shoot her party cannon at ponies. To this day, nopony knows where she got it from.

Rainbow Dash was busy fighting three earth ponies at the same time. Using her speed, she was making them feel the rainbow punches that she did against Sigma.

Rarity wasn't doing much more than dodging and getting a few quick strikes in. While she may not have been doing much damage, it was pissing off the pony she was fighting.

Katar, like the girls, wasn't doing anything lethal. The majority of his attacks consisted of a quick nerve strike to stun an opponent so he could move on to the next one.

Fluttershy cowered in the corner, like the good little mare she is.

One action montage later

The six fighters regrouped in the center of the room that was filled with dead, dying, or unconscious ponies. The assassins stood on the far side of the room. They hadn't moved an inch since the fight started.

"If death is the option you want, then by all means, continue on this path." Octavia said.

"Y'all ain't nothin' compared ta us." Applejack smirked.

"Then let us prove you wrong." The young colt said, rushing them.

Octavia sighed. "Your an idiot Starscream."

Scootaloo woke up with a headache that would spell doom for complex thought.

Where am I? Ow, it hurts to think.

It took her a good half minute to remember what happened. She shot her eyes open immediately and regretted it.

Really Scootaloo. What did Applebloom say about going full derp on yourself?

"This is all your fault Trixie."

"How is this Trixie's fault? Your the one who made them aggressive AND because of such actions, you have put not only Trixe and yourself in danger, but also Scootaloo."

Scootaloo moaned at the volume. "Please, shut up."

Twilight smirked. "I'm not in danger, it's only a matter of time before my friends find me and Scootaloo. And once that happens, we can leave you to rot in this cell."

Trixie laughed. "If you think your friends can do anything here, your wrong. Trixie used to work here and the ponies that this place employs are far more dangerous than anypony in Equestria."

"Shut up." Scootaloo whined with more volume.

"My friends will find a way."

"Your 'friends' will end up in this place just like we are. The only ponies we can rely on right know are ourselves." Trixie snapped back.

"Will you both SHUT UP!" a fourth voice yelled. "For the queens sake, you somehow got even more annoying than last time Trixie."

Trixie froze in place.

It can't be, thats impossible. I thought Sigma killed it.

Twilight was staring at the pony in front of her. "What are you?"

"I, my dearest student of Celestia, am an alicorn. I am Sodalg." said the voice.

To call this being an alicorn, or even a pony, was like calling a cockatrice docile. The 'pony' in front of Twilight had the head and horn of a pony, the body of a griffin, the wings of a changeling, and the tail of a manticore.

And I thought Discord was messed up. At least he had a species name. This isn't natural and even scientifically possible.

All this thinking made Twilight remember a joke Rainbow tried telling her about mixing a dragon with a chicken.

"Impossible, Trixie knows that Sigma killed you for what you did to him."

"He tried, but failed." Sodalg stated simply. "And you will be my newest test subjects."

Trixie gulped. Sodalg noticed this and said. "Don't worry, I seldom end up killing them anymore. And I won't be swapping body parts anymore. All these tests are going to be doing is affecting your muscles, nerves, bones, magic, and brain."

This didn't help Trixie and it made Twilight nervous. Seeing this, he said. "It isn't going to be like diving into research I've never done before. After all, I successfully split Sigma's conscious mind in two, made Razor Wing have a basic for of communication as well as other things. I even fixed the problem that changelings can only feed off of love. Now if you excuse me, I have to set things up."

Once he left, Twilight turned to Trixie and asked. "What happens to the failed experiments? What happens to the ones that work?"

Trixie shrugged. "The same thing."

The boss was currently busy beating the shit out of Sigma. Punch after punch he struck.

This ow guy ow can hit ow hard ow.

There was a break in the beating. Sigma, tied to a metal chair, scoffed at the damage. "That all you got you old peice of skat?"

The boss laughed. "I'll break every bone in your body."

But he would have to wait a second because a report came in via messenger. "Sir, the extra security forces were wiped out in only a couple minutes and the bounty hunters have their hands full. What should we do?"

He looked at the messenger and said. "Send in Agents Xero and Mane to deal with it."

The messenger gulped. "Y-Yes sir."

The fight downstairs was going decent to say the best. Rarity was nursing some bruised ribs, one of Rainbow's wings was missing some primaries, Applejack had a sprain hoof, Katar's nose was completely broken, and Silent Night's right eye was swollen shut. Pinkie Pie was the only one uninjured and she was currently trying to help Fluttershy stop crying.

Injuries on the otherside ran deeper. Vinyl's horn was cracked, and she had three broken ribs. Octavia had a broken elbow joint on her left foreleg and a concussion. Starscream had a broken wing and a minor skull fracture. Despite all of this, they fought on.

Fortunately, Starscream ran face-first into Silent. She knocked him down and had her hooves around his neck, choking him. The other two were kept busy by Rainbow, Katar, and Rarity. The poor colt was about to pass out when a flying tank tackled Silent off of him.

Silent shook her head to clear it and when she saw what had knocked her halfway across the room, she shit bricks.

"How nice of you to drop by Silent, Katar."

"Mrrgghroowlll."

Pain

Silent Night was at a loss for words. The two beings standing in front of her were the two of the most dangerous on the planet. One, a griffin with glowing yellow eyes. His tail was missing and his body covered in burn scars. The other, a changeling with no wings.

"Whats the matter Silent, Mane got your tongue?" Xero said.

With that, Mane tackled her and pinned her to the wall by her throat. Silent started to sputter and struggle to no avail.

"Leave her alone!" Applejack yelled. She ran up and bucked Mane in the base of the spine with enough force to fracture a skull. Mane, was not amused, so he let go of Silent Night and went to murder the crap out of Applejack. He never made it as he was punched in the face by a rainbow.

"Uugggghhahhaha." The attack surprised him but did no damage. The attacker, Miss Rainbow Dash, was speechless.

"Impossible, I put so much behind that punch." She complained.

He was slowly walking towards her when a chair was thrown at him, hard. Mane didn't even flinch when the chair broke against him.

Pinkie Pie spontaneously appeared in front of him and hit him with her party cannon at point blank range.

"Haahahaha." The laugh made Pinkie's hair deflate. Mane didn't like her in his way, so he punched her through a wall. Pinkie wasn't moving.

"Pinkie!" Katar yelled and rushed to her aid.

Fluttershy was pissed, even more pissed than when Twilight told her that if she didn't fly faster, Discord would win. She marched right up to Mane and yelled. "HOW DARE YOU!"

She used the Stare on him. The stare was a weapon of the most dangerous kind. The psychological effects are impossible to calculate. It has never been used on a pony or griffin. What it is believed to feel like is having your soul ripped from your body as you slowly go insane. Prolonged exposure will drive most living beings to insanity. What Fluttershy doesn't know is that when used on a sentient being, it allows you to see into their soul. This is dangerous for both parties as it can corrupt the Starer to the disposition of that is being Stared at. The receiver of the Stare can suffer from many things including, insomnia, fear of mares, fear of Fluttershy, eternal sorrow, insanity, and possible death from having your soul literally ripped from your very body.

"Just because your big...ger than everypony doesn't...mean that you can..." the rest of her words died with her courage. She just so happened to peer into Mane's soul and what she saw horrified her. She saw pain, a lot of it. Both from himself and what he caused others, and how much he loves it.

What this did to Mane was faze him for a while.

"Mane, stop screwing around." Xero yelled.

Mane shook his head and growled.

"Look, just finish them off and I'll buy you a pizza." Xero said.

"Mmmruuhaahagg." Mane said, unhappily.

"Two pizzas."

"MRMMRRHHFFAAHGGH!" Mane was pissed, and for no reason at all, like always.

"With stuffed crust."

...

"Good. Now, kill my boy, kill." Xero said.

Mane gumbled before turning around.

Applejack got an idea. "Rarity. SIlent, do ya think y'all could distract him for a spell?"

"If by distract, you mean get maimed horribly then yes." Silent answered.

Rarity nodded.

"Good. Rainbow, Ah need to talk ta you."

Rainbow groaned and walked over to her. "What."

Applejack leaned in and told her the plan.

Meanwhile, Katar joined in the fight and was doing is hardest to do any damage to Xero.

Xero ducked under a punch from Katar and used his momentum and hind legs to sweep Katar's back legs out from under him. Katar caught himself on his forelegs, pivoted himself, and bucked Xero in the chest. While flying back, Xero shot a bolt of magic at Katar, singeing his face. Katar fell down and Xero took this time to charge up his magic for something more powerful.

Octavia, Vinyl and Starscream were nursing their wounds.

"Do you think we should help them?" Vinyl asked.

"Who, the agents or the others?" Octavia retorted.

"On second thought, lets go up to the boss and get our pay. Those two don't need our help." Vinyl said.

"Good idea, lets go." Octavia agreed.

"Hey, agent Mane, over here." Rainbow yelled. She was out a window, trying to get Mane to go after her.

Mane glanced at her and growled.

"Yeah, that's right. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries." Rainbow taunted.

Mane glared at her and charged with a speed that would make a Wonderbolt feel threatened. Rainbow wasted no time in flying as high as she could.

She started her decent with Mane coming out the window. She felt herself picking up speed. Faster and faster she went. A mach cone formed around her. Soon, it would happen.

Mane was a quarter way to her now and climbing fast. But not fast enough. Rainbow Dash did it. She did a sonic rainboom aimed directly at him. Upon contact, he went in the opposite direction of what he was before. The roof didn't even slow him down when he hit it. The next ten floors didn't either.

Basschords was making himself a sandwich and was about to grab the bread when it dissappeared. Along with majority of his kitchen.

"What the fuck?" He said to nopony inparticular. "Dammit, I wanted that sandwich."

Trixie and Twilight had stopped fighting when a rainbow appeared in the room. When it hit the floor, the impact shook the building to its core. The crater that it left had a very tired Rainbow Dash in it as well as a griffin with every bone in his body broken.

Twilight looked at Trixie with an 'I told you so look' look. Trixie glared in response.

Rainbow looked up and said. "Hey Twilight, do you think you can teleport us out of here."

Twilight tried a little magic before confirming that the anti-magic field had been broken when Rainbow crashed into it. "Yes, gimme a second." and with a bright flash, Twilight and Rainbow Dash disappeared. Leaving Trixie and Scootaloo alone.

Trixie sighed. "One second, its been a while since Trixie has done this." and with another flash, they left the room.

Sodalg entered the room to see the ponies gone and a very fucked up agent Mane in their place. He sighed. "Well, at least they didn't kill you Mane. Now, lets see if you can recover from that. I made it so you can regenerate slightly back when I augmented your body."

All that agent Mane did in response did was growl.

The Price of Survival

Trixie stared at Agent Xero for a a split second. The undying hate that was in the azure unicorn's eyes was directed at him. Twilight was shocked at the scene she saw. There were corpses all over the floor.

Trixie looked up at the next floor, the one that their former employer was on and then back to Xero. "Silent Night, Katar. Get the others to safety.This is something Trixie must do alone."

Silent Night nodded. Katar wasn't about to leave though. "Trixe, if you intend on saving Sigma by yourself, your insane."

Silent backed up Katar by saying. "You know this is a one-way trip. The boss is in charge for a very good reason. And judging from what they did to Mirrors Edge and Razor Wing, or Xero and Mane as they liked to be called now, he will be the best of both of them put together."

"Trixie knows all of this. Now go, Trixie doesn't want any distractions."

Rainbow and the others left, leaving Silent Night, Katar, and Scootaloo. "Katar, look after Scootaloo until she gets back to ponyville for Trixie, okay?"

"As you wish." They left without another word; tears in the eyes of her former teammates.

Trixie focused on the wounded Xero. Now, what shall Trixie do with you?" she said, slowly walking towards him.

"Ha, you call yourself great and powerful, but you are nothing." he scoffed.

"Trixie may not be great and powerful, but you are weak and defenseless. Look at you, your body is broken and your powers of flight taken away. Trixie is just getting warmed up."

"Fuck you bitch." Xero yelled.

"Leave, now. Trixie is giving you this one chance. In this state, you won't last a minute against me. For old times sake, leave before you get yourself killed."

Xero thought about this for a little while before swearing under his breath. He walked past Trixie and down the stairs to the check on Mane.

Trixie began her climb to the next level. Once arriving, she saw the three assassins lounging around while some ponies treated their injuries.

Starscream saw her first and rushed her. He didn't get far because of his broken wing. He it the ground with a thud. Trixie picked him up and threw him against the wall head first. His fractured skull completely broke under the pressure. A piece of the bone stabbed his brain, effectively killing him.

"Wait, stop. We can't fight anymore. Have mercy." Vinyl begged.

"How much?"

"Huh?" Vinyl was confused.

"Vinyl, your retarded." Octavia said. "fifty thousand, if you let us leave in our current condition."

Trixie laughed. "Trixie doesn't need your bits. But since you're offering, give them to a filly named Scootaloo."

Octavia was confused now. "Why don't you...oh. Very well. Its been a pleasure knowing you."

Without another word, she continued into the lobby of the room that the boss was in. There were two guards, both earth ponies. Once they saw her, the first one rushed her. She picked him up with magic and threw him into the second.

Both stunned, she then picked them both up and threw them out the window to the ground below.

Turning her attention to the door, she ran at it. When she slammed into it, it burst open. The scene in front of her wasn't pretty.

Sigma was tied to a chair covered in blood. Half of his teeth had been ripped out, his jaw broken. A kidney removed and his small intestine was sprawled out on the floor. His eyelids were cut off and his horn broken off. Blood flowed freely from numerous cuts across his body. The only thing keeping him alive was a faint yellow glow that surrounded him.

"Sigma!" Trixie yelled. She rushed to his side and started untying him.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you. That chair will keep the occupant alive while the remain in it. A useful device for interrogation or if I'm bored." the boss said, emerging from the shadows.

She ignored him and got his restraints off. She didn't try to remove him from the chair though. "I will never forgive you for this." Trixie said. abandoning her usual third person speech.

Sigma, by some means of being awsome and stuff, heard her.

Fuck dude, she came for us.

Why? Doesn't she know that this is suicide. Now we both get to die.

Trixie threw caution to the wind and rushed him. The charge was futile at best as the boss picked her up with telekinesis and started hurling her into everything in the room. Each hit broke a bone. This continued for a minute before he stopped.

Come on brain, we have to help her.

How? We will die in a matter of minutes if we leave this chair.

Oh well, its about time for us anyway. I didn't expect to survive once we got here anyway.

True, its only a matter of how and when.

"I'm bored, time for you to die." the boss said. He started to push her out the window.

Sigma, out of pure awesomeness and adrenaline, got up and ran toward the window. He made it right when the boss dropped her.

"Trixie!" The two minds of Sigma yelled before jumping after her.

He caught up to her in mid flight. Sigma latched himself onto her and angled himself so he would hit the ground first, soaking the majority of the impact."

Sigma's last thought was this. Now, we may rest in peace. right before hitting the ground. The impact knocked Trixie out.

Three days later

Trixie woke up in Ponyville General Hospital, Intensive Care Unit. Her first thoughts were, in this order. What happened? Where am I? How did I get here? Where is the nearest restaurant, I'm hungry. Wait, what happened to Sigma. Where is he? Dammit, he better be okay.

It took her a while to remember, but when she did, she cried for a long time.

Her eyes were red for the entire time she was in the hospital.

Two weeks later

Trixie, Katar, and Silent Night stood at the funeral service for Sigma. There was no body for them to use, so it was just a formality.

Aside from those three, Scootaloo, The Elements, the Receptionist from the Gomorrah, and a handful of squatters from Los Pegasus were there.

The priest gave his sermon and the casket buried. Silent Night cried into Katar's shoulder. The Elements were all depressed, even Pinkie had her mane down in a way that told everypony that she was depressed. They all were teary-eyed, except Rainbow who just sniffled. The receptionist wasn't crying either. The squatters were all balling their asses off because in their eyes, they just lost a hero. Trixie was stone-faced. Scootaloo had her head buried in Trixie's foreleg.

"If anypony would like to say something, now is the time." The preacher said.

Trixie cleared her throat. "Sigma was a amazing stallion. He wasn't just a friend to me, but a brother to all who served with him." she coughed before continuing. " When we first met, he treated me like any other filly. It wasn't until later that he accepted me as a friend. Our relationship started with nothing more than mutual benefits. I taught him magic and he protected me from others. Eventually, he found his way into the protection industry. Strangely, he asked me to join him. I agreed and from there, we met Silent Night and Katar." She dried her eyes and sniffled a bit before saying. "Most of us were orphans. Our family lives, if any, were terrible. The four of us became a family. Later, the family grew by two. Mirrors Edge and Razor Wing. The six of us did everything together. It wasn't until Sigma tired of his job that we started to fall apart. When Sigma quit, the rest of us resigned shortly after. Sigma, by far, was the best at his job. The boss didn't like losing him so he foalnapped me so he could control Sigma. He was forced to do the boss's will for years before I managed to escape. Once I did, we ran away together. Over the weeks, we got into fights, a lot of them. It got so bad that we went our separate ways." Trixie finished.

The hours after the funeral were simple, but decisive. Trixie was allowed back into Ponyville to live in. Half of the bits that she got from Octavia went to the towns treasury. Scootaloo had to go back to the orphanage. Silent Night and Katar would stay a while longer before heading back out to Celestia knows where. Goodbyes were said and with that, it all ended.

A mare was frantic. "Oh no, how could this happen? Why was I so stupid?"

She stopped to think. Who is it? I think it was that one stallion, what was his name...Sigma, that's it.

She sighed. "I can't believe I did that. Now look at me."

She started to cry. "I'm pregnant."

AN: Dun dun dun. Did you really think that this was it. Of course not. how could I end this story so abruptly. This, my poor saps, is the first part in the series: My Little Hitcolt. Now, this also was an epilogue and first, I'd like to thank you for reading this. It fills my heart with rainbows. Until then, this has been a ThePopeMobile100 production. Licensed by me. Wrote by me. Edited by me. And you best hope, not being read by you.

School Days

Five years after the death of Sigma

"Okay class, get out some paper. We're going to start today with math." Miss Cherilee said. Time had been good to her. One could barely tell how old she was. She looked like she barely aged over the years.

The class let out a collective groan. One caused by the sheer amount of hatred for the subject. Only one pony liked it and that was a little red pegasus filly with a pink mane called Numerah. The only reason she liked it was because her cutie mark was a circle with a slash through it, the mathematical symbol for the number zero.

"Class, can you tell me what seven plus five is?" Cherilee asked. The only pony with their hoof up was Numerah. "Hmm, Sunburst, can you tell us what it is?"

Sunburst, was spacing, like always. "Umm..." He looked around for an escape to this impossible problem. Luckily, one came for him.

"It's twelve Miss Cherilee." Numerah said, smugly.

"Very good Numerah, but next time could you let Sunburst ask you to tell him the answer first." Cherilee said.

"Oh, okay."

Ah, lunch time, the only time that I'm allowed to hang out with friends...if I had friends. Sunburst thought to himself.

The playground, as well as the rest of the school, had been renovated because of the funds that the city had received five years ago. Unfortunately for Sunburst, they were also able to fit all of the kids into one school now so they didn't have to alternate between age groups. This meant that there were fillies finishing up the last year of school.

His inner monologue was cut short though because Numerah plopped her flank down next to him. "Hi Sunburst, you looked lonely so I came to say hi."

Sunburst wasn't much of a conversationalist with the nerdy type. So he kept it brief. "Hey, whats up?"

"Oh lots of things..." and Sunburst spaced out after that.

"Well well well. If it isn't bleeding gums and the zero." a snarky voice said.

Sunburst didn't say anything. They were right after all. The toothpaste colored hair and the crimson eyes gave them that nick name. It didn't help that his mom was a dentist.

"Hey, I'm not a zero and he isn't bleeding gums. I bet his teeth are healthier than yours." Numerah retorted.

"Hmm lets think about it, you have zero friends. You don't do anything outside of school. Face it, your a zero and its all you'll ever be." Diamond Tiara smirked.

Numerah started to cry, not knowing what else she should do.

I should help her. Nopony deserves to be treated like that. But if I do, then they will make fun of me more.

He couldn't decide what to do. So he sat there, letting them torment the little filly.

"Hey, leave them alone." a voice said.

Could it be? Of course it could.

"And why should I." Diamond Tiara said.

"Because I'm his foalsitter and I won't let you make fun of him or his friends." The pony said, showing herself to be none other than Scootaloo.

It is, I've been saved.

"So? You can't stop me."

"Oh really..." Scootaloo waltzed up to Diamond Tiara and pushed her.

Diamond was apauled by this. "You can't touch me. I'm a very important pony."

"Oh yeah? Well then, I can't do this." Scootaloo said while punching her in the face.

There was a collective gasp from everypony who was watching. Diamond Tiara ran away crying.

Scootaloo sighed. "Well, I'm going to be in detention again. Nice seeing you Sunburst."

"W-why did you do that?" Numerah asked.

"No pony, and I mean no pony, messes with the foals I sit or their friends." Scootaloo said.

Sunburst was sitting outside after school, with nothing to do. Since his mom was the only pony in Ponyville who was a dentist and because of Pinkie's sole existance, she was busy. So he was stuck to think about whatever he wanted.

This was the usual day for him. Except now he had company. In the form of a pink pegasus known as Numerah.

She doesn't stop talking, why doesn't she stop talking.

There were many things that Sunburst didn't understand. This was one of them.

Luckily, his prayers were answered when Scootaloo came out.

"Alright Sunny, what do you wan to do?" Scootaloo asked.

"I want to go swimming!" Sunburst said.

"Well, that can wait for a bit. I was told to bring you to my mum's place first."

"Why would Trixie want to see me?" Sunburst asked.

"I think she wanted to teach you some magic."

"Awesome. But whenever Twilight tried to teach me, nothing happened."

"I don't know, maybe its something about Sigma. She did teach him after all. From what I was told, she was only six when she taught him." Scootaloo said.

And off they went.

"Hey Scootaloo, did you know my dad?" Sunburst asked.

The topic of his father was, by those who knew him, were discouraged from talking about him in front of Sunburst. Mostly because he thought his dad was a hero, which he was. But they didn't want to encourage him or make him think that his dad was a murderer, which he also was. It was agreed on by all that he shouldn't have to know what his origins were until he was old enough to handle it.

"Sorry kid, the only thing I know was that he wasn't from around here." Scootaloo lied.

"Come in." Trixie said.

Sunburst and Scootaloo entered the building. The main room had a table with some books on it. The walls were decorated with pictures of Trixie and Scootaloo. Four years prior, Trixie adopted Scootaloo so she wouldn't have to grow up without a parent figure in her life.

"Now, Trixie was told that you have problems with magic."

Sunburst looked at his hooves."Yes ma'am."

"Now now, don't be disappointed. Trixie was able to teach Sigma after all."

"I guess so."

Three hours later

"This is stupid, I've tried everything that we can think of." Sunburst sighed. "I guess I'm not cut out to be a unicorn."

"Don't talk like that, you just haven't found a way for you to unlock your magical potential. Until you do that, there isn't much Trixie can do for you."

He's going to unlock his magic like Sigma isn't he? Trixie thought. "Scootaloo, can you see Sunburst home. Trixie is sure his mother is home by now."

Sunburst walked into the kitchen, where Colgate was making dinner.

"Hi Sunburst, how was your day?" Colgate asked.

"Great. Turns out that I can't do magic and I'm still a blank-flank." He said sarcastically.

Colgate sighed. "You can't rush these things. One day, you'll be the most powerful unicorn in your class. As for your cutie mark, they're not that special. Its only as important as you want it to be."

Sunburst gave a smile. "Thanks mom. What's for dinner?"

Colgate chuckled. Always the first question he asks me.

Get Out of Here Stalker

Colgate was walking around the market, looking for something to feed the colts at her house.

Something healthy? Nah, that would spoil the night. Something sugary? No, I am a dentist and hate it when I see a bunch of mini-Pinkies in my office. Something delicious then. Yeah, that limits my options to everything that has sugar in it.She sighed inwardly. I guess one night can't hurt to bad.

So, she walked to Sugarcube Corner. The inside hadn't changed at all, but there were the twins that ran around, stealing sweets and making Colgate's job harder.

Mrs. Cake heard the bell from the door and walked out saying "Welcome to Sugarcube Corner. How my I help..." she lost her wording when she saw Colgate.

These two had a few disagreements in the past, Mostly regarding the welfare of the teeth of the foals that Colgate treated. They came to the consensus of 'I do my job, you do yours' kind of thing. It also didn't help that Pinkie used a near lethal amount of sugar when baking specific treats, as in everything. Most ponies had built up a resistance to it so it wasn't a problem, until they went to the dentist. Colgate was astonished by the amount of sugar that the ponies were consuming when she first opened up her clinic. She investigated and eventually found out that it was 85% Pinkies fault and 15% for being delicious.

"Hello Mrs. Cake, I would like a chocolate cake with sugar-free frosting." Colgate requested.

"Umm, sure. Just give me two hours so I can make it."

"Great, thanks." and with that, the toothpaste pony left.

She continued to walk around the marketplace with nowhere to go. Nothing really happened, which was nice. During this time, the only thing that did happen was the feeling of being stalked. You know, that sixth sense stuff.

Colgate got the cake and walked out of the establishment with that same feeling.

It feels like I'm being followed...meh, its probably Lyra.

Walking into the house made the feeling worse. Seeing the current state of the house made her change from toothpaste pony to the Legendary Super Pony now with extra whitening power "WHAT HAPPENED TO MY HOUSE?!"

The normally clean and organized house was now a complete mess. There was a bunch of cups left everywhere, none of them empty. There was mud on the carpet AND the ceiling. The floor was covered in chips and the amount of yelling told her that it was Scootaloo and apparently, she was trying to catch them.

Before she could do anything else, the two colts sprinted down the stairs, being chased by an airborne Scootaloo.

"No flying in the house Scootaloo." Colgate said for nth time that month.

"Sorry, I forgot." Sootaloo apologized.

"I know, I heard you the first time. And the fifteenth too. Now, stop screaming and eat up." Colgate said in a monotone.

She levitated the cake off of her back and onto the only clean spot on the table. Before you could say 'cream gravy', the two colts had rushed the cake while Scootaloo assaulted it from the air. They ate the damn cake in ten seconds flat. The two sat there while Scootaloo hovered. It was like that calm before the storm. You know its gonna happen, but not the time. They stayed like this for five seconds before all belching at the same time.

Scootaloo hiccuped "Oops, sorry."

Colgate sighed. "This is going to be a long night."

And it was.

Vinyl was speed walking to the train station when she was confronted by a figure wearing a cloak. "Who the fuck are you?"

"Sssrrruggh."

"The fuck are you supposed to be?"

The figure grabbed her by the throat with a talon without warning and lifted her. Vinyl looked into what she presumed was its eyes. She was right for the most part in that it was his eyes, but one of them glowed red.

This figure, a griffin, was big. If Gilda was the average size for a griffin, then this was the Big Mac of griffins.

Vinyl struggled to fight back. Normally, she would've used magic to get out. But years of neglecting her training as an assassin had left her considerably weaker than what she was five years ago. Five years ago, she might have had a chance breaking free of the griffin's grip, but that was a long time ago and this griffin was much stronger than before.

"Razor Wing, let her go. She is not the target."

"Vfffrrusshhrrriinngg." With one final squeeze, she blacked out.

Grabbing her unconscious body, he flew into the Everfree so he could hide her.

Trixie was just walking around Ponyville, being Great and Powerful. The moon was up and so was she. The night was clear, you could see stars in every direction.

Its nights like these that make me remember how kind Sigma was. I remember everything he told me about the night still. The stories it tells and the map it gives us. Thank Luna for giving us this night and for me being able to read them.

Nostalgia filled Trixie for a couple seconds before she continued on her way. A lone tear shed for those lost. I miss him still. Its been five years since his death and I still can't get over it. He was my only friend and a brother to me. He died so he could save me.

She continued to walk until she reached the train station. The scene she saw put all her nerves on edge.

There was a unicorn, one of the ones that captured Sigma, being strangled by what appeared to be a griffin on steroids. It only took her a second to realize that this was Razor Wing. Trixie gulped. The last time she had seen him was when she was captured by her former employers. This was the moment of truth for her. She could help the unicorn and probably be put in the hospital for the rest of her life, or get help. She chose the latter and ran off into the night to assemble the A-Team.

Preparations

Katar had finally found a place where his talents weren't needed for doing harmful things to ponies. Over the years, he finished the last years of medical training at the Canterlot Royal University and became a surgeon. Since then, he had performed miracles to ponies and continued to prove that just because earth ponies don't have magic doesn't mean that they are any less capable to do things that unicorns primarily did. He still however, practiced his skills so that when the call to arms came, he would be prepared.

Katar had just got off his shift at the hospital when Trixie ran up to him. "Trixie, what are you doing here?"

"No time...to talk... come with...Trixie." and without another pant, she ran off, leaving a very confused Katar.

"The buck was that all about? Dammit, I'm going to follow her, aren't I?" Katar asked himself. He then sighed and ran after her.

It only took a moment to catch up to her. "Trixie, whats going on?"

He was met with silence. This better be important, I have a date tonight.

Silent Night watched as the griffon flew past her. The strange sound of sharp metal against the wind rattled in her skull. Silent Night had joined the Royal Equestrian Guard. She rose through the ranks quickly and was soon sent on covert missions around the planet to assist the griffins in gathering intelligence. Her former work as a spy proved useful and she was rewarded for it.

Hmm, there haven't been any sightings of griffins around Ponyville. Whoever this is clearly isn't here to buy candy. If he was, then he would've waltzed into town and bought his damn candy.

She saw what looked like a foreleg dangling from the griffin's back.

Great, this just became my problem. Fuck, I had a date tonight.

She started following him when the size of this griffin became known to her.

Son of a bitch, that's on big shit.

This continued on for a while before the griffin landed in the Everfree. Silent Night followed him down, but instead of landing on the ground, she landed on a tree. Straining her hearing to get any form of monologue that she could, she heard this.

"Ssshhhruuyyik."

"Stop complaining. If all this goes right, then you will have your revenge and the boss won't have a problem to deal with later.

"Ggguuyyyhhhaa."

Fuck, that's Razor Wing. I better tell the others.

And with that, she flew off into the night sky. Oblivious that she was spotted.

Scootaloo was bored out of her mind. The two colts were currently knocked out from a sugar overdose and she had nothing to do. She had already done what was necessary and drawn on the duo and was currently thinking of other things to do. She contemplated asking Colgate if Sweetie Belle and Applebloom could stay for a while, but Applebloom was busy with the harvest and Sweetie Belle was out of town.

The boredom ended with a frantic knock on the door. Seeing the opportunity for socializing, she rushed the door in an attempt to tackle the poor thing down, but changed her mind at the last minute and opened it. On the other side was a very tired Trixie and a mildly annoyed Katar.

"Hey mom, whats up?" Scootaloo asked.

She couldn't do anything but pant. Luckily, Silent Night landed right next to them. "Trixie, its him."

Trixie nodded. Katar looked like he was doused with ice water. Scootaloo was confused. "Who?"

"Razor Wing has returned and I'm pretty sure its to finish what the boss started." Silent said.

Scootaloo still didn't know what that meant. Katar sighed and said. "You know, the griffin that nearly killed all of us."

"Agent Mane?" Scootaloo asked. They all nodded. "Rainbow Dash put him through a building. A BUILDING. Nopony could've survived that."

Katar said. "Normally I would agree with you, but Razor Wing isn't a pony and if any living being could survive that, it would be him."

"So he probably is going to want revenge, right?"

"Yes, I'm going to get Fluttershy and Applejack. Katar, you get Pinkie Pie and Rarity. Scootaloo, you get Rainbow Dash and Twilight. Trixie, stay here and make sure that Sunburst is safe. Are we clear?" They all nodded. "Good, lets go."

Scootaloo got to Rainbow Dash's house first. She proceeded to knock on the door frantically screaming 'I want you Dashie' at the top of her lungs. When the door opened, a very tired and pissed off Rainbow Dash stood there.

"What do you want Scootaloo." She asked in a very annoyed voice.

"Ponyville is in danger again."

"So, let Twilight handle it. She lives there."

"No, you don't understand. This is something that needs the elements of harmony."

"What could possibly need all of the elements to fix?" Rainbow said, still annoyed.

"Agent Mane is back and he wants to kill Sunburst and probably you." Scootaloo said in a monotone.

Rainbow looked like she just shit herself. Paralyzed in fear of what happened last time, she stood there like a statue.

Scootaloo sighed. "If you grow a pair, we're gonna be in the town square. I hope I see you there. If not, then I hope that your death will be painless cause I doubt that we will be able to stop him if we are missing somepony." and took off.

On the way to Twilight's, she thought to herself Rainbow really is scared of him. I guess I don't blame her. She did sonic rainboom him through the top of a building and survive.

Katar walked up to the Boutique and knocked. Rarity answered the door with her mane somehow groomed even though it was clear she was sleeping prior to this.

Rarity was about to talk when Katar interrupted her. "No time to talk, Mane is back and pissed off. Need your help now."

She didn't say anything in return but followed him in silence.

On the way to Sugarcube Corner, Rarity said. "Its no use getting Pinkie, she is visiting her parents with her sisters."

"Buck me."

Silent Night landed in Applejack's window. Looking down at the sleeping mare made her smile. Then she remembered what Sigma did to Big Mac and, like tradition, bucked her off the bed.

Applejack jumped up instantly and glared at her. "Now what an' the hay was that fer?"

"Just waking you up so Mane doesn't."

It took Applejack to realize who she was talking about, but when she did, she jumped out the window with the agility of a tank, landed, and ran off towards Ponyville.

"Well that was easy."

Silent followed suit and flew out the window. Halfway to Fluttershy's, she remembered that the only attack Fluttershy had would be useless against the soulless behemoth known as Razor Wing.

Scootaloo landed in front of the library and yelled. "Spiiike, Rarity wants to make you the luckiest dragon in Equestria."

The door opened nanoseconds later with a very happy looking Spike. "Really, finally life is good to me!"

Scootaloo chuckled. "Sorry, but your gonna have to wait until never happens for that to come true. Anyway, where is Twilight? I need her."

Spike glared at her before answering. "She is visiting her parents in Canterlot and will be back a lot later tonight."

Scootaloo cursed under her breath. "Fine, just tell her then that its been nice knowing you." and took off.

"Huh, I wonder what that was about?"

Spike shrugged and closed the door so he could clop to Rarity.

When it Hits the Fan...

Agent Mane was flying back to town so he could murder the crap out of Rainbow Dash and Sunburst. The flight would normally be something to enjoy, but not him. Mane was never all sunshine and rainbows. Quite contrary; he was murder and mayhem. When ponies met him, they usually thought 'what could fuck somepony up so badly?" The answer is unknown to all but those directly involved who are still alive and agent Xero.

On his way back, he passed a house made of clouds. Upon further analysis, it was Rainbow's house.

"Ssshrrueeggguhh."

"Don't get greedy. Once you start causing problems in Ponyville, she'll come. Continue with your primary objective."

Mane faltered before growling and flying straight at town.

The five ponies stood in the middle of the town square. Unsure of what was to happen. The waiting was getting to them and they didn't know when he would arrive.

"Is he here yet?" Scootaloo complained.

"No and that's a good thing. If he doesn't show up, then we don't have a problem." Katar said.

"Ah hope that mah family is okay."

"Your family, what about me? I have things too." Rarity complained.

Silent Night sighed. "Somethings not right, he knows somethings up. That, or he decided to deal with Rainbow Dash first."

Unfortunately, the wait wasn't long. Shortly after, the screams of some late night citizens reached their ears.

The ragtag group looked to where the shouts were coming from.

"That sounds like its on the outskirts of town." Rarity said.

"Lets split up. Applejack, take Scootaloo and Katar and see what's going on. Rarity and I will stay here."

"Got it." the three said in unison before running off.

"What do we do now?" Rarity asked.

"Now, the game begins."

Colgate was distraught at the intrusion into her home. Trixie was standing vigilant over the two sleeping colts, still trying to catch her breath.

"What is going on that is important enough for you to barge into my home and stand over those two like your life depends on it?" Colgate demanded.

"It does. Somepony from Sigma's past has come to kill his son. Trixie is standing guard over him so as to give him a chance to run away in case the others fail."

"Then let me do it. You can do more good out there than in here."

"You would be no more than a fly is to a manticore. You would have better luck at fighting a manticore too. Trixie can buy time if it is needed, but not forever."

Colgate groaned. "Fine."

Vinyl woke up in the forest with a raging headache. It took a couple of tries to stand, but once she did, she stood strong.

Dammit, what happened. This feels like last time Lyra spiked the punch. Last thing I remember was a griffin...Son of a BITCH. Alright its pay back time.

And she started to run in a random direction, oblivious to how much worse that headache would be getting.

Lyra was scared. Even more scared than when Luna came to visit on Nightmare Night. Even more so than when Nightmare Moon returned to bring about eternal darkness. She had survived the resurrection of Discord and everything else life had thrown at her. But nothing could have prepared her for this.

She was watching as this 'thing' attacked the citizens of Ponyville with no real purpose. Nopony was safe from this onslaught. The injury rate was high. The only thing higher was the griffin causing the destruction. With every broken bone, every destroyed house, every scream of pain, it became ecstatic. As if the very sound of pain of any kind brought it happiness. It was the griffin's drug of choice and he was addicted to the point of physical dependency.

"I will not get in its way. I will not get in its way. I will not get in its way." she said, repeating the phrase like it was an oath.

All of this changed when a very unfortunate mare crossed his path. When this happened, the griffin grabbed and held her by the throat. The pale earth pony was struggling to breathe, unsuccessfully. When Lyra saw this, she felt a new wave of courage flow through her body. She felt like she could take on Discord himself.

And she let all of that energy go in one powerful blast and shout. "LEAVE BON BON ALONE YOU SON OF A BITCH!" and blasted him with a beam of minty green awesomeness. The power of which would make even Celestia think twice before continuing an attack. When the beam struck, the force knocked Bon Bon loose from his grasp and kicked him a good twenty feet before coming to a halt. The cloak that once covered his body was now in shreds, revealing the monster underneath.

Lyra collapsed onto the ground, breathing violently. "Yeah...take that...you son of a bitch." and then she fainted from overextending her magic.

Applejack, Scootaloo, and Katar arrived on the scene moments later. They had heard the cry of Lyra and had seen the flash. The first thing they saw was the destruction and bodies everywhere. Scootaloo had never seen this level of destruction before and was shocked. Katar walked over to one of the ponies and looked for a pulse. Applejack looked at him with hope, but when he gazed into her eyes, the hope died out.

Applejack thought for a moment. "Katar, Ah want you to do what ya can for these ponies. Take Scootaloo with you. She doesn't need ta see the monster who did this."

"No, you will need my help and I refuse to leave. Not now. I failed once, don't make me do it again." Katar protested.

"Silent Night put me in charge sugarcube. Ah'm not givin' you a choice. Ah'm orderin' you."

Katar sighed. "As you wish."

Applejack continued to search for Mane. Luckily she was only searching for thirty seconds when she found him. The sight of what he was made her gasp.

Agent Mane (designation number 2.0) was only a shell of his former self. Turns out that when Rainbow Dash rainboomed his ass through the building, somethings had to be replaced. Like his front right and back left legs. And his right wing. And his tail. And most of his ribs and other assorted bones and vital organs. And a good portion of his skull.

"Ah snap."

Rainbow Dash heard the screams before she saw the fires. At first she just curled in her bed and tried to ignore it. But it just kept coming back. Soon she thought of it as a nightmare. And like most nightmares, they scare the shit out of you; no matter what they are about.

When she looked out her window to see what was happening,she let out a gasp that would've made Rarity proud. The fires made the sky look like it was sunrise. The screams just made it all surreal

This is not happening. It can't be happening.

She continued on this thought pattern until a bright green flash caught her eye. That caused it to take a radically different direction.

My friends. They need me. I can't let them down. "I won't let them down." she shouted.

She dashed out of her cloud home and made a beeline straight for the flash.

Hand on guys, I'm coming.

Octavia was drinking her heart out. The injuries that she sustained five years ago made her look like scum in the eyes of the Canterlot Elite. They made sure nopony would have her play at any event. Eventually, her ensemble kicked her out. She looked for work in other places, claiming that the injuries wouldn't affect her playing. She was right, but her reputation was ruined. With nowhere else to go, she, like all great musicians did when in a rough spot, turned to drinking.

Where did I go wrong? I used to have everything, now I have nothing. I can't get a job in either of my fields anymore, and all of my bits are gone. Where did I go wrong?

A pony stumbled in. He was panting heavily and bleeding from multiple locations. Octavia and everypony else turned to him.

"Monster...attacking town...run." was all he said before passing out from internal trauma.

All of the ponies in the bar looked at him for a couple of seconds before going back to their drinks.

Octavia did the same until she heard a cry followed by a bright flash of light. She sniffed the air for a reason that nopony knew but her.

Hmm, the amount of nitrogen in the air rose. Either there is a thunderstorm going on and I'm too drunk to hear it, or a pony just performed a very powerful spell. I'm going with the later. Somethings up and I want to know.

She stood up and was about to leave when the bartender grabbed her hoof. "Not this time Octavia. I can't let you leave without paying."

Octavia looked at his hoof and sighed. She grabbed it, twisted it until it started cracking then grabbed his head and slammed it into the bar.

All eyes were on her as she left. Most of them were thinking what the fuck just happened.

All Octavia thought was redemption.

Twilight was riding back home on the train. The visit had been a success as far as she was concerned. Shining Armor had decided to spend the weekend with her so they could catch up. They conversed on the train about current issues and the like.

They continued on with this until they saw Ponyville. Nothing inparticular caught either of their attention. Somehow, they were oblivious to the town burning. What did get their attention was the bright flash. Neither of them saw it directly, but, being unicorns, they felt the discharge.

When Shining looked out of the window, his jaw dropped. "Um, Twily, I don't think the town's supposed to be on fire."

"Its not, somethings wrong."

Shining was very impatient. "We have to get there and help."

"Agreed."

Spike had sent a letter to the princesses so they could get help. Unfortunately, Celestia was on business in the Griffin Kingdom so Luna was in charge.

So, Luna got the letter. It said this

Dear Princess Whoeverisincharge

If you actually care about Ponyville then get your chubby flank over here now.

Sincerely Spike

Luna was shocked at this. Her flank was not fat. In fact, it's glorious.

Very well, if thou dost wish for us to come, then we shall.

And she left without another word to search for the ASCA.

The Cavalry has Arrived

Applejack was paralyzed by fear. The shell of a living being that was Mane scared the shit out of her. The thought of going twelve rounds with a manticore sounded better than going one round with this freak.

Mane cast his gaze over her. The sounds that came from his throat didn't belong to that of a living being. He let out a cry before dashing at a speed that would make Rainbow Dash jealous. When he made contact, Applejack was sent flying into a cart of peppers.

"How in the hay am Ah supposed to beat him?" she said to herself before getting up. Mane had a smirk on his face that said he already won this fight. Applejack was content with proving him wrong.

She rushed the griffin to attack. When she was only a few feet away, she pivoted about her forelegs and slammed her hind legs into his face. Mane stood there and took it like a man, or a bitch. End effect: nothing.

Mane let out a small chuckle before decking her in the face, hard. Applejack slid on the ground a ways before stopping. Her jaw was broken in that one punch.

Its like Ah can't even hurt him.

Applejack spit out blood before standing. She was about to say something when her jaw started hurting like none other.

Mane walked towards her like it was business as usual. When he reached her, he hit her again. Applejack got back up. So he hit her again. She got back up.

"This is pointless, kill her already."

What in the hay was that? she had heard the voice talk to Mane.

Unfortunately, she didn't have much time to think about it because he picked her up by the throat and started squeezing.

Rainbow Dash was flying like she had never flown before. She was content on helping everypony with the fight now, but she still didn't have the speed she needed.

Or at least that was a problem in the past. The mach cone started to form around her. Pushing through this, she entered hyper-sonic speeds and, for the first time in history, there was a rainbow in the middle of the night.

Now with all the speed in the world, she quickly got to town to see Mane choking Applejack.

"Oh no you don't." Rainbow muttered to herself.

Somehow picking up more speed than before, she flew straight into Mane. The impact knocked Applejack out of his grasp. It hit Mane with twenty percent more force than before. Unfortunately for Rainbow, Mane was twice as big as last time and three times as heavy. That, and he dug into the ground so he wouldn't fly through a building this time. So he only went and crashed into the side of town hall, knocking it down on top of him.

"Oh yeah, Rainbow for the win!" she said victoriously.

I can't believe that worked.

The pile of debris started shifting until a very pissed agent Mane got angry and obliterated the rubble on top of him with a mighty roar and a spread of his wings.

Oh crap that didn't work.

A dazed Mane stumbled forward.

"Hey Mane, isn't that the mare who put you through a ten story building?

This made him gaze over at Rainbow, who shit a brick when she got a good view of him. Even though he was missing an eye, the amount of hate that he emitted could freeze Tartarus over.

"I thought so, sick 'em.

And he did just that.

Katar and Scootaloo were currently getting all the living ponies to the hospital. Once finished and Scootaloo couldn't help anymore, they took a two minute break.

Katar looked at Scootaloo and said. "I want you to go back to Sunburst's house and guard him."

"No, I have been practicing for a long time and I won't back down now."

"That's not the point, I don't think that Mane came alone. Odds are is that he has a spy and I need you to make sure Trixie can defend Sunburst."

"But-"

"No buts, that is an order. I am in charge right now and need to get back to work. There are ponies that I can help and that's what I'm going to do, not go on a suicide run against that monster."

Scootaloo grumbled a bit before leaving, pissed off that she can't help the others.

Rainbow and Applejack were getting the crap kicked out of them. Despite his enormous stature, Mane moved like he was on the moon.

Applejack made a rush to distract him while Rainbow tackled the bastard. It went down like this: Applejack shuffled up to him. Mane grabbed Applejack by the face and slammed it into the ground. Rainbow let gravity do the hard work and kind of landed on him, not doing anything. So Mane picked her up with his free claw and threw her into the rubble of town hall.

"Is this all they can do? What a bore."

Applejack was unconscious now and Rainbow Dash wasn't in any better condition.

With her last breath, Rainbow said. "I'm sorry I failed." and fell into unconsciousness.

Those are element bearers, kill them.

Mane hated being controlled, but at least he would be getting his revenge. He went for Applejack first, picking her up by her head with his bionic talon and started squeezing. He was about to crush her skull when he got bucked in the side.

If it was from any normal pony of any race, it would've been harmless. But it wasn't. This buck came from a walking tank. A stallion that has been known to topple trees if he isn't to careful. That's right, it came from Big Macintosh.

"Eenope."

"Damage report: three cracked ribs. Be careful engaging him head-on Mane, he can actually do damage to us.

Mane paid no attention to the warning and rushed him. It didn't end well for him.

Big Mac saw this coming and prepared himself for an even stronger kick this time. Mane was to busy being angry to see it and took it head on, sending him flying. This time he crashed through a building. Luckily, all the buildings in this area had been abandoned and nopony was in it.

Mane felt that buck very much so and it pissed him off. He flew out of the building like a bat out of Tartarus and headbutted Big Mac in the head, cracking his skull.

Big Mac went down fast, a side effect of breaking your skull.

Smiling, Mane went for the kill. He was about to rip Mac's head off when the non-mechanical forearm that he was reaching with went dead.

Growling, he turned to face this new attacker. It was a mare with amethyst eyes and alcohol on her breath.

"HER!? That traitor, kill her.

Mane was getting pissed off at the voice in his head, but conceded.

He threw a punch at her, but met nothing but air. The broken ribs he had were suddenly were hit repeatedly. Growling, he swept his arm at Octavia, but hit nothing again.

Unlike Vinyl or most of the others, Octavia still trained every day. It was brutal sometimes. Even though she was out of the job, she still trained so she could still be the best. And she was, at least in Ponyville.

Vinyl was lost, but she did find some crazy-ass plants. So she wondered what it would be like to inhale the burning fumes of  said plant.

In three words- she was high.

Luna was roaming around the palace looking for the ASCA before remembering that Celestia had taken her's to the Griffin Kingdom and that her own personal ASCA was in the shop.

Sighing, she strutted back into the throne room to eat all of her sister's bananas.

Mane got a lucky hit on Octavia, and that's all he needed. He pressed on the attack, scoring hit after hit. While Octavia is fast as fuck on the ground, she can't take a hit very well and was soon slowing down.

He decked her in the face and sent her flying into a building, breaking her spine against the wall.

"Target analysis: a concussion, five major cracks in her skull, all ribs broken, as well as her sternum and her spine in a dozen places. Target neutralized.

Mane smiled to himself before turning around to finish the others. He was going to start with Big Mac when the alarms in his head started ringing.

"High magic concentration detected. Recommend immediate evasion and withdrawal."

The bane of Mane was magic, the technology in his body could overload with enough of it. That would be bad for him.

A beam that would make Lyra's look like a foals trick slapped into him with enough force to send him flying through buildings.

Basschords had just made himself a sandvich and was heading to his bedroom to eat and clop to Luna. He ate that sandvich on the way there and was about to open the door when a beam of purple magic went and obliterated his entire bedroom. His bedroom had said porn stash in it and all of it was of Luna.

When he opened his door, there was nothing there.

"OH COME ON!"

Mane was in a small crater on the outskirts of town. He wasn't in so good of shape anymore.

"Damage report: your fucked up.

A stallion made his way to the pit that he was in. The stallion was a very big unicorn with a white coat and a dark blue mane. His cutie mark was a shield.

"You disgust me. I hope that you will be sent to the deepest pit of Tartarus for what you've done." the stallion said.

"Activating self-destruct sequence. Recommend heading to Tartarus now."

And with that, he blew up.

The blast was extremely powerful, but Shining Armor had put up a shield to contain the blast. It worked, barely. His magic would be suffering for the next few days and it was likely that he would have magic withdrawal. So, like all great heroes, he passed out.

Colgate was mad that all this was happening. Scratch that, she was pissed. All her anger was concentrated at Trixie right now. It seemed like she would never get over it. Of course, something happened to occupy her mind with. In the form of knocking on the door.

She opened the door and saw something completely revolting.

"I have come for your son."

Awakening

The thing outside of Colgate's door was even more of an abomination than Mane was. It lacked the mechanics that Mane had, but made up for it with being a Picasso of beings not unlike Discord is. It had the head of a pony, the body of a griffin, the wings of a changeling, and the tail of a manticore. Sodalg finally revealed himself. The manic creature whose origins are unknown left the comforts of his 'research' lab to find and end Sunburst.

Colgate screamed, like any logical pony would do, and slammed the door in it's face.

"TRIXIE, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!" Colgate screamed.

Trixie didn't answer as the entire front wall erupted in green flames.

Suburst and Night Watch were now fully awake and frightened.

"Mommy, what's happening?" asked a scared Sunburst.

"I don't know." she screamed back.

This frightened Sunburst even further. He was pushed even farther down this road by the sight of Sodalg walking through the flames towards them.

Colgate ran in front of her child in an attempt to protect him. This wasn't needed as Trixie put up a shield in front of them all.

"Pathetic, do you actually think that will stop me?" Sodalg asked retorically.

"No, but I will." said the disembodied voice of Silent Night. Her person came crashing into him shortly.

Sodalg, by all means, wasn't a fighter. He was a scientist of the worst kind who enjoyed dissecting everything that moved, or didn't. Favoring the pursuit of knowledge over physical strength had left him weak. However, that same pursuit left him extremely powerful in the ways of magic. Being a unicorn to some extent gave him the means to manipulate magic and having the body of a griffin gave him the renown ability to, like all animals who could manipulate weather, resist the effects of being shocked. (Disagree with me? In episode five season one, Gilda can walk on clouds. This comes to the conclusion that since she can walk on clouds and clouds can shock stuff, that her species would have come to being resistant to lightning naturally.)

None of that mattered at that moment cause it was strictly a physical move and not a elemental one.

Sodalg recoiled forward in shock, not expecting that. "If that's all you've got planned, you will lose."

He grabbed her with his magic and started slamming her into Trixie's barrier over and over again. Blood was flowing freely from her nose and bruises were starting to appear all over her. Trixie was flinching every time she hit.

It was only a matter of time before Silent Night died or Trixie dropped the shield. Trixie gave up first.

Trixie fell to the ground, gasping for air. Sodalg threw Silent Night away like she was all done. He was wrong.

As soon as Silent Night was free of his grasp, she rushed him again. This time aiming for the base of the neck, hoping to stun him. That didn't work either. Instead of walk the ten feet like a normal pony would, he teleported right in front of them. Silent Night hit the ground hard.

Sodalg smirked at her and picked her up again with his magic. "You just don't quit do you?" he sighed. "Oh well, you wanted to die, so I shall grant you this request."

Moving her over the fire, he smiled before shoving her into the magical flames. She screamed for thirty seconds before going silent. Once that happened, he let her go.

Sunburst was crying now, wanting this to all stop. He never asked for this and he didn't want it either. All he wanted was to enjoy life and make friends. It wasn't fair in his eyes.

Scootaloo stood her ground, only because she had no better ideas that didn't involve running away. Trixie was running low on magic. Colgate stood in front of them all, prepared to defend her son to the death if need be.

"Look at this, they think they can stop me." Sodalg taunted. He stood five feet away from them and still he didn't do anything.

Scootaloo was the first to do something, in the form of a rush. She made it half-way before she was blasted by a very powerful beam of pale green magic. The beam wasn't as powerful as Lyra's, but it was enough to incapacitate the young mare.

Suburst screamed and cried even harder. "NO MORE, PLEASE!"

Trixie did a smart move next and found the energy to teleport right next to him. This suprised Sodalg and he wasn't able to react fast enough. Trixie then borrowed a move out of Sigma's play book and stabbed the bastard with her horn.

Sodalg screamed in pain. Trixie had the advantage now and began charging her magic up. Unfortunately, it took to long and Sodalg ripped her horn from out of his chest.

High off of adrenaline now, Sodalg used his magic to amplify the muscles in his forearms and grab Trixie by the throat. "I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU YOU BITCH!" and with all his might, he ripped her horn off.

It was Trixie's turn to scream in pain now. (Have you ever broken your finger. Yes? How about your arm. Maybe? Then how about this. Have you ever had your hand violently ripped off of you? No? Then don't question how much it would hurt a unicorn if you ripped it's horn off.) Sodalg threw her to the ground. He then started to advance on Colgate, green blood oozing from his injury.

"Your turn." Sadalg said.

He would've done something terrible to her, but was interrupted by a colt who was unlocking his magic potential. (Remember when Twilight did that as a filly? This was a lot like that, but much more violent.) Sunburst's mane was now ablaze, his eyes burning with anger. The raw magic field around him suspended him in the air, making him all that more intimidating.

"ENOUGH IS ENOUGH." was all the colt said before sending a bolt of raw power into the monster.

He didn't even have time to scream as he died. Instead, he exploded into a gazillion pieces. The colt wasn't used to this much power running through his body and passed out shortly after.

Colgate threw up first then walked over to her son's sleeping body and said. "I'm so proud of you."

This pride was short lived as the body of Night Watch was consumed in green flames. Colgate watched in horror as a changeling emerged from this fiery cacoon. This changeling was bigger than the others, but his most significant feature was that it had no wings.

Colgate didn't even have time to prepare herself because the changeling fired a knockout spell into her. She collapsed on the ground, unable to help her son.

The changeling looked down at Sunburst before saying. "I've been watching you for a long time. At first I had my doubts if you really were the savior, but I guess Chrysalis was right. And your Sigma's son too none the less. That seals the deal then. Your coming with me. You have bigger things ahead of you."

And with that, the changeling took Sunburst and retreated into the night.

In the burning throne room of Tartarus, the king of the dead sat on a throne made of the bones of ponies.

"Bring him forward." he said.

A pony was brought forward in shackles. the Undergod smiled at him.

"I've been waiting for you to prove yourself. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance."

The unicorn stallion opted for silence.

"You should feel grateful, most will never meet me and live to tell the tale." he continued.

"I'm dead, not alive." the stallion said.

"I know, but I have the chance to send one pony up to the living world and I have chosen you. I want you to serve as my agent. You will do my bidding and in return, I will give you the power to destroy the ones who sent you here."

The stallion smiled. "Where do I sign up?"

Coming of Age

Seven years after the battle for Ponyville

A young stallion stood atop a sand dune, looking outwards onto the horizon. Sweat pored down his tan face, but that didn't faze him. This was his home and he knew it well. The tattered remains of a cloak spoke of a very weary traveler who needed a break. The fire in his bright red eyes spoke differently. His mane was cut short so it would keep out of his eyes. The blue and silver streaks that ran down it were extremely dirty. An image of his father to those who knew him. The main difference was his cutie mark, twin swords that were ablaze.

He looked to the rising sun, the heat already uncomfortable.

Damn the queen. Why does it always have to be this hot out?

He took a moment to look back at the hive that he called home for the past seven years. The stallion sighed.

"You don't have to leave just yet." a voice said to him.

He turned to his right and looked at his companions. Two changelings. One an adolescent grub born to be a promising leader in the changeling horde someday. The other, an old grizzled veteran of countless fights. During one such fight, he lost his wings. He was the captain of the Queen's royal guard and a mentor to the young stallion. But he was more than just that, he was a friend. Not just to the stallion, but to his father as well.

"I know Xero, but if I am to understand the world I was born to save, then I must walk it." The pony said.

The old changeling sighed. "I told you not to call me that Sunburst. Your father knew me since I was a grub and always helped me out in a jam. The least I can do for him is to let you call me by my real name."

"Yeah, but it would be weird to let the only pony to walk out of the hive in one piece call you by your name." Sunburst retorted.

"So? Anyway, what are the other two signs of the prophecy?" The changeling asked.

"That's forbidden knowledge Pseudo. You know that." Xero said sternly.

"But, I thought I was supposed to lead to victory some day." Pseudo complained.

"And you will, but for now, you are just a grub. I don't care if you are royalty or not, you are still a grub until you complete the pilgrimage that potential queens must go through. And don't get me started if you succeed on becoming a queen. Even if you do, you must either challenge Chrysalis to a fight to the death or start a new hive. Either way, your life is going to suck for a while."

The changeling was starting to pout.

"NO, if you start doing that then I'm going to make you drop everything you have with you and make you walk into that desert without any help. Your lucky that it's time for Sunburst to leave, something I'm almost sorry about-"

"Wow, I didn't think you cared so much Xero." Sunburst said with fake surprise.

"Its not that I care about you, its just that I've put the past eight years of my life into teaching you how to survive. The Queen be damned if it was for nothing." Xero snapped back. "Now go, you'll want to start early. Pseudo, stick close to Sunburst. He's been through every nook and cranny in this part of the badlands."

"That's not fair. He's a pony. They have to eat stuff." Pseudo complained.

"And that means he has an advantage over you. You know he has been enchanted by the Queen herself so we can't feed off of him." Xero lectured. "We have to survive off of love. Do you really think that your going to find any in the badlands?"

"Well..."

"Well nothing. There aren't towns for miles outside of the badlands. The ponies that venture into these parts in search of fortune are dangerous. I know that you didn't go through with the standard training that every soldier receives so that's another reason to stay close to Sunburst."

"But training is for soldiers. Not princesses." Pseudo said it like it was common knowledge.

"AND as princess, it is your duty to know all of the duties in the hive. From gathering love to fighting. If you think that your special just because you don't have a link to the hive mind then here's a news flash. Neither does Sunburst or me. I broke it by accident and Sunburst is a pony."

Psuedo was about to complain some more but Xero interupted. "This conversation is over. If you don't want to go on the pilgrimage, then I can kill you and then we wait for the next candidate."

Sunburst sighed. "Finally."

Scootaloo dashed past the final barrier and towards the finish line. A crowd of two ponies watched as she passed the finish line.

"Well done, a new personal best." said a yellow pegasus mare in a flight suit. "Might have beaten Soarin's to time too."

Soarin glared at the mare. "Hey, she's like ten years younger than me. If she's so good, then why don't you race her?"

"I would, but I ripped a tendon. The doctor's orders are that I can't do anything strenuous."

"Whatever, that sounds like excuses Spitfire. Whenever I get hurt, I don't get a break. You just make me train even harder."

Spitfire chuckled. "If you have time to complain, then you have time to train."

Scootaloo approached the Wonderbolts. "So, how'd I do?"

"Amazing. If you keep that up, then I'm going to have to make you captain." Spitfire said.

"That's not good enough then. Run it again." Scootaloo snapped.

"Are you sure? You've been at this for three hours now. The rest of the team left ages ago." Soarin warned.

"I'm fine." Scootaloo said angrily.

I was too slow before. I have to make sure it will never happen again.

She took off again for the fiftieth time that day.

Dancing With The Devil

Sunburst and Pseudo had spent the good portion of the morning walking. Normally, a changeling wouldn't be walking through the badlands. However, Sunburst was a unicorn and couldn't fly. This annoyed the pilgrim greatly. In response all she did was complain about how hot it was and that this was not the way she should be treated. This had been going on all morning and it didn't look like it would stop any time soon.

"Why couldn't you actually be useful to me? That way I wouldn't be this miserable." Pseudo complained.

"If you don't like me, then fly away. See if I care. Just make sure that the desert wraiths don't get you." Sunburst retorted.

"Th-those are an old drone's tale."

"Maybe to a stuck up grub like you, but us ground-walkers have to deal with them from time to time."

Pseudo soon got back her sense of superiority and said. "I can handle a few of them no problem."

Sunburst laughed. "If your lucky maybe, but those aren't the worst things out her. Wait until you see what comes out at night. Some of those creatures don't have names. That's why we need to keep moving until we get to the safe house."

Pseudo groaned. "Why do we even have those? i know that there for any changeling who is too injured to make the trip, but if they are hurt then their not worth saving."

"That's what they all say until they're in that position."

Sunburst stopped to pull out a canteen and drink from it. Once finished, he lowered it and looked at the area they were in. Large dunes with large rocks jutting out of them occasionally. From here, the next area would be much more barren. There wouldn't be nearly as much sand, but the landscape was riddled with canyons. Those were the dangerous parts. It was also their first pit stop.

"Can we go already?"

Sunburst grumbled. "This is going to be a long day."

Trixie stood atop a lonely hill that overlooked Ponyville. It had been eight years since the attack on the town. It had been eight years since she lost Sigma's son. It had been the longest eight years of her life. Normally, she would stand alone against the world, but she was joined now by one of the last surviving hitcolts, Katar. Neither of them had aged well. Trixie's mane was losing its color and wrinkles adorned her face when she frowned.

Katar's normally dull coat had become sleeker over time. The eyes that once held a fire to save all living things long extinguished.

Katar looked at Trixie "We've been training for this moment for eight years Trixie."

"Trixie knows, but it is our fault all this happened. If it wasn't for us, then Ponyville would still be safe. They wouldn't have had to see Death's ivory gaze. They wouldn't have had to lose so many."

"This journey, you know we won't make a return trip."

Trixie smirked. "Does Trixie detect hesitation in your voice?"

"No, I know that our end will come soon. It was written in an old changeling prophecy and it seems like the end of days is upon us. And its all because of him."

"Trixie knows this, and that is why we mustn't fail now. We must show no mercy, like Razor Wing. We must have no remorse, like Mirrors Edge. We must strike like Silent Night. But above all, we must fight like Sigma."

Katar nodded. "You know that he's even more powerful now than last time."

"Yes, but we've trained for so long. We aren't like what we were before. We must fix the past to change the future."

"Then let us be on our way."

Trixie laughed. This confused Katar slightly. "What is it Trixie?"

"Sigma always said that the last road we walk is one we walk alone."

Katar chuckled. "Despite how much of an asshat he was, you can't argue philosophy with him and come out the same. Ah nostalgia."

Without another word, they departed Ponyville.

Never to be seen in Equestria again.

The lone stallion stood in a pit surrounded by the fires of Tartarus. With every flicker and cackle, the smell of burning flesh filled his nostrils. His opponent was the overseer of his pit. In order to gain his freedom, he was to fight a fully armed hell-spawn with his bare hooves.

The being looked like a demonic manticore, but much smarter. In addition to flying, they could also do very destructive magic. They had no skin or muscles, only bones. The eye sockets were ablaze with a greenish flame. It was easily twice the size of a manticore. If a living being was to stare into the flames of it's eyes, they would loose their minds.

This stallion looked unfazed as the target approached it. Like always, the stallion played a defensive game; using stuns and counter-attacks to weaken the foe before killing them.

The Overseer charged the stallion and made a swipe with his front right, intending to end this fight quickly. The stallion ducked and brought his entire body into a headbutt, using the momentum of his dodge, into the Overseer's face.

Not doing anything but stunning it, the stallion jumped back and started to charge his magic. The Overseer snapped out of its daze and assumed a defensive stance.

The stallion let out a small smile. He let out a large, but extremely weak blast. Falling for the feign, the Overseer put up a shield, but it realized too late that this was a trap. The stallion had used a quarter of what he charged up and teleported directly in front of the Overseer.

Smiling, the stallion released all the energy into the Overseer's face. Once the beam faded, it was shown that the Overseer had no face left.

He looked down on the undead Overseer and spat on it. "Is that all? I was hoping for a challenge."

Death had been watching the entire fight. "Very good, your training is complete. Now go, this was but a test. You still need to defeat Cerberus, that will prove more challenging."

The stallion laughed. "Yeah, that's what you said about this too."

Death frowned. "The challenges are exponential in nature. The next one will prove a much bigger step."

"Fine, but he better not disappoint."

A Crack in the Exterior

Sunburst was pissed for numerous reasons, half of which were not his fault.

Reason 1: He was stuck with a snooty princess who wouldn't stop complaining.

Reason 2: He forgot where the safe house was.

Reason 3: Pseudo was bitching about how he forgot where it was.

Reason 4: He was running out of water.

Reason 5: Night was approaching.

Reason 6: Said princess was bitching about how dark it was.

With the sun setting, Sunburst was running out of options on what to do. The vast majority of the predators in the badlands hunted by night. He could try for one of the caves in the canyon face, but that could be the home of a very nasty creature or worse. He could try and find an explorer in the area, but he hated ponies and they would attack if they saw him with a changeling. The local flora in this area was edible so he was good on food, but only a rare few had water in them. Those were limited to cacti and there were only a handful in the canyon.

Another problem was that the princess would be bitching soon about the lack of food she had. While changelings could eat regular food, it did them little good and caused their bodies problems. She needed to feed, preferably soon. He could let her do it to him, but that would drain his energy and that could lead to his death here.

Sunburst sighed, he had to make a decision soon or the land would make one for him. Looking around the canyon wall, he spotted a cave roughly ten feet off the ground.

"Perfect."

His sudden speech made Pseudo look at him and ask. "What is?"

"That cave, that's where we'll sleep tonight."

Pseudo looked at the cave. She was clearly not amused. "That is no place for a princess. I demand a bed and food, I'm hungry."

Sunburst was going to snap soon, he had been dealing with this since sunrise and the princess wasn't making this any easier. "What did you expect, a fancy hotel and a fresh meal? Cause let me tell you something. There isn't any place like that in a good twenty miles. If it wasn't for where we are, I would keep walking. But, seeing as how the local wildlife has a tendency to violently rip any being, pony or changeling, to shreds we will need a place to stop for the night."

Pseudo looked like she had just been slapped.

Sunburst continued. "Now get your ungracious, unloved, over-sized flank in that queen damned cave right NOW!"

Pseudo didn't say anything, she just obeyed. No one had ever yelled at her like that before; in fact, no one had ever yelled at her. She flew up into the cave without hesitation.

Sunburst sighed. He had to get up there now, and being a unicorn, that wouldn't be easy. "Fuck me with a cactus."

He had a decision to make now. Either try and find a way up. That would take up a lot of time and energy that he didn't have. Or, he could stay down here. Not a good idea either. The wildlife would probably kill him. That left one option: ask Pseudo for help.

"Pseudo, can you help me up?"

...

"Pseudo, don't make me say it."

...

"Fine, I will. Pseudo, will you please help me up?"

...

"Oh come on. What do you want from me, a snack? Cause I'll let you if you get me up."

Pseudo elected to stay silent, but levitate the unicorn up to the cave. Once inside, Sunburst realized how small it was. He had to crouch to get in.

"Thank you."

Psuedo nodded. Whatever fight she had before was gone now. The day had been stressful on her. The damage done to her psyche wouldn't recover for some time. It was only until ten minutes ago did she realize how hard this journey was, and why there hadn't been a new queen in the past one hundred years.

Sunburst chose to lay down next to the princess. "Hey, I'm sorry I yelled at you. I know that its the first time some one, let alone a pony, has yelled at you. But you need to understand that if we didn't move out of the open, then we might have died there."

"It's okay."

This surprised Sunburst, she didn't complain like she normally did. Either she was really hungry or she was changing. Sunburst thought it was the first one. "Do you need to feed?"

"Yeah, but we haven't found a pony yet that I can feed off of."

"What about me?"

"I can't, the queen put a spell on you that made it so we can't do that to you."

"Damn, even if I give consent?"

"No,"

"Well that sucks for you."

Pseudo didn't say anything else so Sunburst decided to take care of his own needs now. He ate half of the various fruits he had with him. Most of them were from the desert, but a few came from the stuff that Mirrors Edge had given him. He also drank the last of his first canteen, leaving three empty and one completely full.

With nothing else to occupy his mind, Sunburst looked over all of his gear. It consisted of his saddlebags, a map of Equestria, a small sword, four canteens, a dozen pieces of various fruits, and the cloak that Mirrors Edge had given him.

Now Sunburst was bored. There was nothing else to do but wait for the sun to rise.

"Hey Sunburst, I'm cold."

This was the first time he had ever heard of a changeling being cold, but it made sense. Most of their species was resistant to the elements because of their shell. All of the grubs were constantly cracking their shells and it would grow back even harder than before. But the princess might not have done that, she would have thought it low and base.

This left Sunburst in an awkward situation. "Uh, here take my cloak."

Pseudo took it hesitantly. "Won't the cold bother you?"

"No, the cold is all I've ever known. I prefer it to the heat of day. Now I'm going to sleep; if you need anything else, you're going to have to get it on your own."

And with that, he lied down and went to sleep.

Sunburst felt something moving against him. Immediately, he woke up. The first thing he did was open his eyes. He saw nothing. So he focused on his hearing. He heard the breathing of a being next to him, but it was too soft to be a predator looking for a meal. So he focused on his touch. He felt the shell of a changeling up next to him. It was the princess.

Huh, must have still been cold. Oh well, it's not really bothering me.

With the mystery solved, he tried to go back to sleep.

The Morning After

You know what sucks about waking up? Waking up. Trying to get going in the mornings is a real bitch to do. I know, I do it every day. It is even harder when your asleep on the floor of a cave that dropped to subzero temperatures. It sucks even more when you don't feel like doing anything in the mornings as it is when you know that you still have a thirty mile hike ahead of you. That about sums up how shitty Sunburst was in that particular morning.

Sunburst woke up and forgot where he was. It felt like a crap day was awaiting for him and he tried to prolong the inevitable. Unfortunately, his awakening was set in stone, and it demanded that he get up. It took him a couple of minutes to find the willpower to get up. Once found, the stand proved to be an even more challenging feat. However, he was determined to prove the morning wrong with the biggest 'fuck you' he could think of. That proverbial 'fuck you' came in the form of proving his worth by accomplishing the impossible: getting up.

Now standing and relatively alert, he noticed the absence of a certain changeling. The one who caused him so much agony yesterday. Normally, the amount of fucks Sunburst would give would be relative to the level of affection he had divided by the amount it pissed him off. So it was pretty close to zero as he spent all his fucks gambling, and lost them all.

Considering that she had is cloak though, he cared; if only slightly.

Grumbling, he stumbled outside, where he immediately fell on his face from the drop. Cursing under his breath, he got back to his hooves and looked around. The sun was just rising over the horizon, casting the sky in an orange light. In another life, Sunburst would have thought this beautiful. But, it was morning and he didn't give a fuck about anything else besides getting his cloak back.

He looked to the ground for any sign of tracks, he got some. In the form of what appeared to be a struggle. From what he was able to deduce, Pseudo was trying to fight against a small group of ponies. When she wasn't able to get away, she tried teleporting. That didn't appear to get her very far though as the burnt sand indicated where she was entering and exiting. While she was pretty powerful in the ways of magic, it still was no substitute for training. Training she didn't have.

"Well fuck me."

He had a couple of options here. Either go and rescue the princess, or ignore her and leave. Both options didn't sound like fun. If he helped her, then the hive would still welcome him with open arms. But then he would have to deal with her. If he left her for dead, then the hive might learn of this and possibly try to kill him. But then he wouldn't have to deal with another changeling for the rest of his immediate life.

"Fuck the queen thirteen ways to Tartarus."

He turned his attention to the tracks and ran after the captors.

Pseudo was not having a good time.

First, she woke up. That sucked on its own because she woke up right next to a pony, a pony. That alone would ruin her day. But she was feeling charitable for her companion and went off in search of food. That didn't go so well. She tried to run from the ponies, but it was too late. So she tried to teleport away. That didn't work either. With no other way's out, she screamed. That however, didn't wake up her guide and she was eventually captured by these, by what she considered, barbarians.

That left her currently in a very bad position. It involved being in a net, upside down, with an inhibitor ring on,being dragged by a pony. Not only was it a big wake up call for her to get her act together, but it was also the most humiliating thing that had ever happened to her.

Is this how it ends? I hope not. I have so much to live for.

She would be crying right now, if it wasn't for her disgust at the situation.

No, there is a way out of this. There must be. Maybe Sunburst will find me. If he does, I am going to apologize for the mean stuff I said to him yesterday. I wonder if he can teach me how to fight? That way this can't happen again. Ugh, I should've listened to Xero. He was right this entire time. I'm not fit to be queen

She sighed, hoping that the problem would eventually fix itself.

Scootaloo was walking around Ponyville with nothing else to do. She had just got up to practice when she realized that there wasn't any today. With nothing to do, she sighed. This was going to be a lazy day. She hadn't had one of those since she was a filly. So naturally, she didn't know what to do.

I'm so bored. I wish that there was something to do. Race Rainbow Dash? Nah, she is way to competitive and hates losing to me. Sweetie Belle is in Canterlot studying and Applebloom is working for the city to fix up the damage Derpy does.

Her walking eventually came across a bench where she sat down. The ponies of Ponyville were well aware of her success in life and the foals had loved to ask her for autographs and stories, which Scootaloo loved to tell. It was only natural for her now.

I wonder if mom is still living her? I should check it out.

Scootaloo stood up and walked the five minutes to Trixie's house. But when she knocked, there was no answer. Figuring that the old show-mare was still sleeping, Scootaloo took the hidden key out from the rocks and unlocked the door.

"Hey mom, it's me, Scootaloo."

She waited ten seconds before calling again.

Huh, she's not home.

Scootaloo strolled around the house, looking at all the old photos and memories. Once she got to the table, she saw a note perched on it.

What's this?

To anypony who reads this, I will not be back ever. I leave this note to tell those who would look for me to not. I must fix my problems on my own. When Sigma came to Ponyville, it was attacked. And it will continue to be attacked until me and Katar leave. We leave, so that we may fix our mistakes. I'm sorry for all the pain I've caused, but this is the only way to fix it.

Trixie

By the time Scootaloo was finished, she was in tears. She knew what she had to do now, and that was to find her mom and stop her from doing this. And she knew where to look this time.

Sunburst had tracked the band of ponies to a large cave in the middle of the canyons. It was getting dark and he was running out of time.

Alright, its now or never. Just remember that they will flip shit and try to find you again. That and the darkness will attract the local wildlife, so that's a double whammy. Make it quick and quiet and maybe you'll get lucky and get out alive.

"Then lets go rescue a princess."

AN: sorry about the wait in between updates. Its just that I'm writing a second story at the same time and school is a real bitch. I mean, what was I thinking taking three different math class?

Not What You Expected

"So as you know, we went to Sugarcube Corner. You got surprised and looked like you were going to hurt somepony. You tried to stay in the back of the party, but Pinkie got you to dance for some cake."

"That I never got."

"Thats not important."

"not important? NOT IMPORTANT!? CAKE IS CREDIT TO TEAM!"

"Okay okay, it is important. But you ate the entire cake after you got your punch."

!

"Wait, does that mean that there is no more cake?"

"Yes, now after you dra-"

"It is sad day when the Great and Powerful Sigma can't have any cake."

"... Did you just say the 'Great and Powerful Sigma'?"

"Yes, why?"

"Because there is a pony that goes by the Great and Powerful Trixie."

"Oh yeah, her. Do you know where she is? I almost miss her."

"HOW COULD YOU MISS A LOUDMOUTH LIKE HER?"

Because she has one of the nicest plots around.

"Because she has one of the nicest pl... irrelevant."

Before she could answer, there was a knock on the door.

"Twilight, are you okay, Ah heard shoutin'."

"Its okay, come on in."

When the door opened, the red stallion from earlier was standing in the door frame.

Oh no.

"Oh no."

"Oh yeah, found you."

I did the most natural thing that i could think of, I threw Spike at him.

Spike was too busy laughing at me to get anything out that was sputtering gibberish.

"Don't break him, I only have one."

Distraction achieved. Step one is done. Step two... Step three, profit.

I had no ideas other than to charge up my shield spell. Doing this took a couple of seconds due to the exhaustion of teleportation, but it only took half of that time for them to recover.

"Ah'm gonna kill you."

I got tackled by big red right before i could deploy my shield. Being on the ground without any magic, a way to get out, and a really pissed off stallion on top of me. I was out of ideas.

Goodbye, I'll make sure to reserve you a place in Tartarus.

"Big Mac, get off of him."

"But he bucked me."

"And he drank Lyra's punch, he probably was freaking out and tried to wake you. Luna knows that you are hard to wake up."

"Eeyup."

"So will you please get off of him?"

"Nope."

"Would you kindly get off of him?"

"Eeyup."

What the fuck is going on?

I'm as lost as you are right now.

Without another word, the stallion known as Big Mac got off of me. This earned the best dafuq face that I had done all week.

The first one to talk was Twilight "Now that that's taken care of, can we go back to discussing why Trixie is significant in all of this?"

Big Mac said nothing, but continued to glare at me. The expression on his face said 'if it weren't for Twilight, you would be dead right now.'

Turning my attention back to Twilight I replied with "No."

"Why not?"

"Because I said so."

"That is not a reason."

"Alright, how about this one. I don't feel like talking about it because of reasons of my own and if you continue to push for an answer, I will exercise my unique talents that made me infamous on the ponies of this town. Starting with Spike, who is not a pony, but you get the idea."

I got the best death look of all time, it almost hurt me.

"If you so much as harm a scale on him, Rarity will destroy you."

"Eeyup"

I stopped to think about which one was Rarity.

"Is Rarity the stuck-up white unicorn?"

These are the three answers I got.

"Rarity is not stuck-up."

"HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT ABOUT LADY RARITY!"

"Eeyup."

I'll take that as a yes.

This is going nowhere real fast, you need to change that or leave.

I decided to go with the latter of the two.

"I'm leaving. Don't follow me."

Twilight had a different idea on what I should do. Without a word, she ran up to the door and blocked it with her body.

"This is a very stupid decision Ms. Sparkle."

Spike actually grew a pair and ran in front of Twilight, hoping to protect her from any potential damage.

"If you want to hurt Twilight, you'll have to go through me."

Twilight whispered "Spike, back off. I know what I'm doing. He won't hurt me."

"But I uh..."

"Spike, I promise you, he won't hurt me. Besides, he is scared of Big Mac. He isn't going to try it."

"Fine, but be careful. I don't think he is joking around when he says he will hurt me."

"He isn't."

"Damn straight I'm not."

Stupid pony, we heard all of that.

"Ms. Sparkle, you will move away from that door, or I will be required to take the appropriate steps to vacate the premise."

She gulped before replying "I won't let you leave here before answering my questions."

Spike chirped in "Yeah, Twilight is the smartest and most powerful unicorn in Ponyville, you don't stand a chance."

"I have no doubt that she is, but I still wouldn't put my bits on her if you knew what I know how to do. Besides, she lacks the resolve that I have. She may have the advantage in power, but that is all she has."

Are you going to attack or what?

Not if I can avoid it. My plan was to teleport out of here.

Why not attack?

I would rather keep my bounty as low as possible and avoid getting a record in Equestria.

Makes sense. It's scary when you decide to be smart.

I have my moments.

"If that is your wish Twilight, then I will do what I must."

She gulped again. Big Mac galloped to Twilight's side and gave me a very dirty look. In response, I charged up my magic for a split second before using a spell that I learned from a childhood friend. The effect is a very bright flash and a deafening noise. Quite useful for surprising an opponent, or to make your getaway.

Finishing the spell, I immediately charged up for the teleportation. It took a couple of seconds before it finished. Now I need a location.

No time, Big Red is already recovering from it and he looks pissed off again.

Fuck, teleporting without a destination is extremely dangerous. You could end up in a wall or high above the clouds.

Deciding that it was worth the risk, I finished the spell.

The Weekend

Sunburst woke up the next morning. Once the light hit his eyes, he let out a groan.

Wait, why is there light on my face. Oh crap, I'm late for school.

With this revelation in his head, he burst out of his room and rushed downstairs and out the door.

About half-way there, he noticed all the fillies in the streets when they should've been in school.

Why are there so many kids in the...oh my Celestia, its the weekend!

And with this new-found revelation, he ran off to do stuff. The stuff in question was currently unknown to him, but it didn't matter, it was the weekend and that's what mattered.

What should I do first, maybe play at the playground. Or should I see if Scootaloo wants to hang out. No, she won't do that. I'm just a colt and she has friends. Sunburst sighed. I need friends. Maybe that's what I should do. Making friends can't be hard. I mean, if Numerah can do it, I can.

So he went to the playground to make some friends.

Two hours later.

This isn't fair. I've been super nice and all that has happened to me has been super mean.

Just then two fillies called out. "Blank-flank." and started laughing.

This just made him even more upset. And, being just four years old, he started to cry.

Why is everypony mean to me? Its not fair. Sure, some are mad at me because my mom hurts them, but that's not my fault. Just because she is a dentist doesn't mean that I deserve to be picked on.

Like most ponies his age, he didn't try to fix the problem or even ignore it. Instead, he wallowed in his own pity.

"Hey, kid." A voice said.

Looking up revealed a colt two years older than him. The colt had a dark gray coat with a deep purple mane. He had a cutie mark of a shield with a crescent moon on it.

"Yeah, what do you want?" Sunburst asked.

I just wanted to ask if you wanted to hang out."

"Why would you want to hang out with a blank-flank?"

"Because, your sitting here alone, crying. And I don't like it when a pony gets picked on for something as stupid as a cutie mark." The colt said.

"Yeah, well, I have friends. Like" He sighed. "Numerah."

The colt laughed. "You're friends with Numerah? Wow, no wonder your picked on. I thought it was because you didn't have a cutie mark and your mom's a dentist."

Really. Ponies don't like me because my mom's a dentist?

Then, what he said sunk in. For the strangest reason, Sunburst felt the need to stick up for her. "Hey, leave her alone. Picking on her is my job when she isn't doing my homework."

"That's weird." The colt said.

"What is?" I Sunburst asked.

"You've never stuck out for anypony before. I know, I've been watching."

"That's because I don't like it when other ponies pick on others because of their special talent."

"I like you Sunburst, the names Night Watch." He said, offering his hoof.

Sunburst shook it like any professional would.

"So want do we do now?" Sunburst asked.

"Now...now we play, or stick up for ponies. Your choice." Night Watch said.

"Meh, I've been trying to play with ponies all day. Now that I have the chance, I'm not gonna waste it."

"Fair enough."

After playing many filly games and other things

"Wow, I haven't had this much fun since Scootaloo used to foalsit me." Sunburst said.

"Scootaloo was your foalsitter? Lucky, I had Big Mac as mine." Night Watch complained.

Now, Sunburst had seen Big Mac around a bit. Even though they never said anything to each other, the red giant was quiet. Possibly even more silent than the dead.

"Dude, that must've sucked."

"It did, but I did get my cutie mark because of him."

"Really?"

"Yeah, I saw some ponies picking a fight with a filly a year back. Big Mac didn't do anything, like always, but I stood up for her and poof, this thing appeared." Night Watch explained.

"That's awesome." Sunburst said as they walked.

They walked for a good while, trying to find somepony to buy them a snack. Most likely because it was past noon and they were hungry. They tried to get Lyra, Bon Bon, Carrot Top, and Derpy to buy them something, but they didn't. Eventually, a white pony with purple shades and neon blue hair walked by.

"Hey, lets ask her." Sunburst said.

"Yeah, she always gets me stuff." Night Watch added.

They approached her and said simultaneously. "Excuse me, miss. We're hungry and we were wondering if you could get us something."

The pony in question, Vinyl Scratch, turned around. Normally, she would've done it, but when she caught sight of Sunburst, things changed. She took off her glasses and glared at him. This made the two colts feel awkward to no end. Eventually, she said. "It's you. That's impossible." then she walked away.

...

"Huh, I wonder what that's about?" Sunburst asked.

"Beats me. Hey, we should spend the night somewhere."

"...Thats the best idea of all time EVER!"

"Cool, but where?"

"My house?" Sunburst suggested.

"Sure, but will your mom make me eat a bunch of non-sugary stuff?"

"Pfft, no. One night of eating sweets is allowed. Besides, Pinkie survives on them."

"True, lets meet up at the playground in two hours."

"Good."

"Hey mom? Can Night Watch spend the night?" Sunburst asked as soon as he walked in.

"Sure, just as long as you two stay out of trouble and brush your teeth." Colgate said. Realizing the errors too late, she added. "Who is he? Is it okay with his parents? Does he have any allergies?" you know, mom stuff.

Sunburst ignored most of the questions as to save his sanity. Unfortunately, Colgate wanted an answer to every single one. That exacerbated things a bit.

So, doing the logical thing that every single one of us has done, he smiled and nodded. Colgate was none the wiser as to what this night would entail. Mostly because foals aren't that smart. Unfortunately, the poor mare wasn't good at doing her job as a mother either, so it was all good.

Colgate sighed. "When is he coming over?"

"In two hours, I said I'd meet him at the playground."

"Fine, just make sure his parents are okay with it." Colgate said, clearly not happy to those who actually cared. That kid and his shenanigans, maybe I should ask Lyra or somepony to help me watch them. I don't think I'm cut out for this. I bet Scootaloo wouldn't mind watching them for five bits.

Two Hours Later

Night Watch and Sunburst walked in the door.

"What are we going to do first?" Night Watch asked.

"I don't know, something epic and so awesome that its illegal."

"Huh, seems legit." A third voice answered.

The Beginning of the End

The lone pony stood atop of the former guardian of Tartarus, the three-headed dog's middle head was completely removed. The one on the right was suffering from a case of cranial trauma that would make even the most experienced doctors lose hope. The right one had it's neck slit.

"Was this a joke? Well haha it was hilariously easy to pull off."

Death stood at the portal to the underworld, smiling at his general's work. "Well done. I knew he would stand a chance against the price of death."

The stallion let out an overconfident laugh. "One day, I will take your place you old workhorse."

Death's expression didn't change, or maybe it did, but the lack of any muscle, tissue, or hair made it difficult to decipher his emotions. "Don't get carried away boy. You may have earned your freedom from my domain, but you owe me a debt that has yet to be paid."

The stallion rolled his eyes. "Yeah yeah, but first I need to pay a visit to an old friend."

"Why?"

"He needs to learn what happens when you cross my path."

"Very well, but make sure he suffers first. Souls are easier to work with if you take the fight out of them."

The stallion nodded before proceeding through the portal that separated the land of the living and damned. The first thing he noticed was air. It filled his hollow body with a vigor that once was lost to him. The cool evening breeze went through his grayed mane. His eyes, once filled with life, now scanned over the landscape. It looked like the area had been recently burned of all life. Not even the birds sang in this desolate land.

Once We finish our business with our friend, we will find the one responsible for our death.

Yes, yes we will.

The pony focused his magic into his horn for a long-range teleport. This would tire him, but it would get him out of this land. He didn't want to spend another moment this close to his damnation.

You still remember where it is right?

Of course, how could I forget?

In a flash, the pony was gone, leaving only a scorch mark where he once was.

In another nanosecond, he reappeared in front of a huge cave complex. The caves were not natural, one look said that. They were hexagonal in nature and if you listened carefully, you could hear a faint buzzing. The pony started his trek into the caves with a small smile adorning his battered face.

Why is it that whenever were about to do something, you smile?

I don't know, but it's what I do.

Cool story bro.

The first signs of life he had was that of the faint glow of magically crafted rocks that sat on the walls.

Funny, I thought that changelings didn't need these.

They usually don't.

He continued down the hallway until he found his target, the changeling central hive. What was strange was that they didn't mind him much. Normally they would have already tried to kill him.

The strange gets stranger.

Lets get to work.

Should we assume our full form?

We better, these are airborne targets.

One cue, the stallion grunted as his back opened up and a pair of skeletal wings showed themselves.

Why does that hurt?

Probably because were fusing magic into bone and making it grow spontaneously.

Probably.

This seemed to get the attention of the changelings. The pony chuckled "Well then, let me show you all why I am the most powerful being in this dimension."

He flapped his wings, causing him to rise into the air.

Destroy?

He started to charge up his magic. Some of the changelings decided that this asshat was about to throw down and rushed him, only to be incapacitated by a magical shield.

Hmm, you didn't use the lethal one.

I'm going to kill them anyway, might as well use something that doesn't require a huge amount of magic.

More changelings threw themselves at him, only to be shocked violently and fall to the ground. Opening his now glowing eyes, the pony smiled as he cast his spell "Burn bitches burn."

The spell made the heat of the room heat up to about 600 degrees Fahrenheit for a split second, flash cooking the changelings in their shells.

Ha, I love that smell.

How could you? It smells like a gym locker that had an orgy from the shit people from the land of Uranus in it.

Exactly

The pony landed, winded from the amount of magic he just used. "My master would've been proud of me to see this kind of carnage."

What he didn't know was that he had just killed 90% of all the changelings in a five hundred mile radius, putting them on the endangered species list.

Only one survived the initial attack. A changeling who had only gotten luck from the blast. He shot a magic blast at the unicorn, but it didn't even phase him. "I won't let this atrocity go unanswered for. I will kill you."

The changeling rushed the unicorn, hoping to actually do something against him. As he reached the unicorn, the pony immediately vanished from his vision and the changeling felt himself loose control of his wings. He hit the ground hard. It took him a second to realize that his wings were now missing, but that second cost him his life. With a swing of his wing, the pony removed the changelings head.

Such a waste of life

He chose his end, an honorable one even if it wasn't a smart move.

I'm not detecting anything living in this hive except the queen.

That's bullshit. My attack wouldn't have killed him.

Maybe the queen knows.

The queen as it turns out had a hidden panic room that was unknown to all other changelings and couldn't be breached by any conventional means. So it was completely insane to find out that a pony, not even an alicorn, teleported into the middle of the room.

The unicorn shook his head. "I hate teleportation. I can't keep this up. I'm tired." He looked over at the queen. "Chrysalis is still the queen here? Well then, lets make this a pleasent visit between friends."

Chrysalis was not amused. This pony had single hoofedly exterminated her hive, their screams still echoing in her mind, and was now staring at her and using her name. "H-how do you know name?"

"You should know me. Now, if you would be so kind as to tell me where Mirrors Edge is so I can congradulate him on a job well done."

"I refuse to tell you."

The pony sighed. "Wrong answer."

He dashed forward and in the blink of an eye was in front of Chrysalis. Even faster, he brought is right forehoof under her and into her stomach. He then proceeded to slam her into the wall of the panic room.

"Now then, why don't you tell me where my friend is before I get mad."

"I-I can't find him. H-he isn't part of my hive mind."

"Bummer." The unicorn brought his hindleg into a kick into the queen's chest, breaking the chitin and letting a lot of green ooze leak onto the floor. "Now I have to kill you."

Chrysalis wasn't having any of this had fired a small, but powerful beam of magic through the area where the unicorn's heart should be.

"A for effort, B on execution, F on effect. I'm undead, you would have to destroy my brain in order to kill me."

"Impossible."

The unicorn sighed, and used his demonic wing to cut off Chrysalis's horn. The queen screamed in agony as her world was fading from view. He then shoved his forehooves through her chitin and ripped her in half horizontally, so that she was still alive, but barely.

"I shall tell you my name before I kill you."

The unicorn lied and used his forehooves to smash Chrysalis's skull in.

"My name is Sigma."