Lunar Ops: Night Stalkers

10 years ago….

The wolves circled around Shadow and Blaze, each stared hungrily as shadow and Blaze stood ready for the first strike, one of the wolves leaped at the Colts “HERE IT COMES!”, Blaze barked intent on a kill, the wolf exploded in a hail of wood and sap “ ’nother notch for TNT!” a stallion said, his cutie mark was an explosion over a shield, “you the Royal Guard?” Shadow asked belting an oncoming wolf square in the chest, “yes and no, I am but I'm not.” the stallion said blowing three wolfs to kingdom come, blaze elbowed another wolf and used its broken arm like a bat against the others “ARE YOU OR ARE YOU NOT A GUARD!!!!” Blaze barked. The ground shook as the trio fought, suddenly several Armor clad Stallions appeared out of the shadows of the village, three pegisi shot up and strafed the ground firing dark energy, the unicorns stood together and chanted something nether Shadow nor Blaze knew, as the unicorns chanted and the pegisi slaughtered the wolves below purple glyphs snaked out of the dark cracks and crevasses of the village and formed a circle of energy that swallowed up Shadow, Blaze, the Cannon trotting stallion, and the unicorns. As the light faded the two colts looked around and where they were, the Village was gone and replaced with a dungeon like area lit by torches glowing with a blue hue, “so much for the mission” Blaze said franticly looking around. Night Blaze flashed for a second and slumped over, Shadow reached for his Kukri but something stopped him, his legs went numb and his mind relaxed, as he hit the ground he heard a Booming voice from what looked like a blue alicorn, his vision slowly went black and the knife slid away from his hand. He woke up almost naked sitting in a chair with his hooves chained together, his feathered wings were clipped to the stalk, and a piece of parchment lay open in front of him “you know too much, if you survive you will become one of us.” the note said, “One of us?...Survive?.....know too much?” Shadow thought. No sooner had he finished his thought had the door creaked open and a figure walked in, Shadow tugged at his bonds wildly as the figure reached inside of its saddlebag and drew a stone, pointing it at Shadow Centurion, in the other room the familiar scream of Night Blaze, “not like this” Shadow thought violently tugging at his chains, “I'm not going to die like a wild dog.”, he looked up and saw the stone glow black as if it were going to fire, he grit his teeth glaring down his captor with anger and a hint of fear

10 years later

The room blurred and faded in and out like a dying lantern as a pegisi dragged the wounded warrior to a corner, “is he stable, I need a head count if this plan is going to work” a mare barked as she leaned over shadow, she had tan fur with a black mane and ears “who……who are you?” he asked groggy but in pain, she replied “Its Deadeye Shadow, why didn’t you tell me you were he-”, just then three solar guards walked in swords drawn and ready to kill, “give me a good reason why I shouldn't kill you on site?” the captain barked. Shadow sat up and glared him down “might as well tell him.”, “are you insane we could be disavowed or worse” Night blaze coughed. The head guard bashed out Blaze and chained Shadow and Deadeye together. the guard lead the three intruders into dungeon, along the way something moved in the shadows…..almost like a ghost, one by one the guards searched them down and rooted through their stuff, setting every last sour round and spell book on the table  “what the hell are these ponies doing with all this, who are they SPS? DUI? CSF?” the Captain asked half scared half worried. Shadow slumped against the wall tying a wound and splinting the broken wing with a set of bones from an old skeleton, he glared at the three guards trying to revive the unconscious unicorn that was Night Blaze, Shadow notices a small twitch from blazes tail and a laugh slipped out. No sooner had the Captain Shadow Centurion laughed that Night Blaze knocked the guards into one another and broke out of his cell….only to be shot with a weaponized muffin, as he was dragged to his cell something moved in the shadows behind the guard. In the third cell Deadeye paced back in forth nervously, “this is your fault Cpt, if you would have told us you were here on mission then we would have helped” she barked, Shadow hung his head “I know you were on guard duty for Luna but we had our orders and you had yours” he calmly stated as the guards opened the doors and dragged the two Pegisi and semiconscious unicorn to the throne room

“I've seen a lot In my time but this takes the cake, you build a team of Guards enhanced with lunar magic, send them in behind my back with information about a threat to all of Canterlot and you don’t even bother to trust me with this information?” Princess Ceslestia asked upset, Luna looked away and glared down her failed team of Black level Operatives in Disgust, “There was no such group, these ponies in front of you are just thieves and vandals, allow me to end their miserable lives dear sister” Luna said almost with the royal Canterlot voice, the throne room was in disarray after the wedding with rice and left over webbing from the changeling attack. In a line Shadow Centurion and the rest of the group were escorted into the room and knelt down, “Cpt Rider, care to tell me who these are and what they were doing?” Celestia asked, Cpt Rider laid out the Weapons and gear that the Night Stalkers had brought with them “these “vandals” had Elite level gear built for covert raids, these intruders should be put to death for this!”,Celestia sighed and nodded, "You may deal with them as you wish sister", Luna's horn started to glow as she approached Shadow centurion with a fiery glare, she set her horn on Shadows head “you know the drill soldier” Luna said in his mind, “yes Ma’am, it’s been a while since something this insane happened” Shadow thought as he slumped over and pretended to die, “last time you practically had every lunar guard hunting you down” Luna said as she cut the psychic connection and moved onto the others. One by one the guards pretended to die, Night blaze gasped for breath as he slumped over, and Deadeye took the theatrical approach and tried to drag herself away as she died. As the three dead Lunar guards where loaded into body bags by the now scared and pale Solar guards loaded the body bags onto a carriage pulled by a hooded figure took them down the hall and away from Canterlot, as he lay limp in the body bag Shadow centurion’s mind wandered back to that fateful day he was dragged into hell…….and came out a Lunar Guard