The Tyrant.
Chapter 2 Recruitment
Previous ChapterNext ChapterClink, clink, clink. The sound of wood tapping against wood was heard throughout the night, and it had been a few hours since the meeting of Fancy and the human.
The human was currently sitting in the middle of a warehouse looking over the note Fancy had given him with a small hum, a chessboard next to that. He had a week until the meeting was meant to happen, and a few months after that till the return of the moon princess. He had a lot of work to do from now till then, more work than he had in the past few years. Even his training hadn't been this taxing, especially on his mind. He needed to think through everything carefully.
The human sighs a little as he turns back to his chessboard, and moves a piece every few moments as he does. Carefully planing against his opponent, every move is carefully planned out with precise timing. Yet even still as he played he thought about the list of names he was given and considered what he knew about each player on the board. The first being the bishop, blueblood.
Rumour has it that blueblood has grown tired of his aunties, and had been purposely sabotaging their endeavors for years now. Of course, these were just rumors and nothing concrete has been found yet, at least, that is until Fancy had done a little digging. It seems that Blueblood has been quite naughty over the past three years, dealing in the black market, tipping od Equestrian enemies, sabotaging traders, and...exterminating information that might have been very important to a certain princess. Indeed, truly a master manipulator in his own right. He made the princess think that he was just a simple whiny brat when in reality he could be considered a tactical genius. Sadly, he had trusted others to do his important dirty work, which had led to clues to be found by Fancy.
All in all, a potentially valuable asset. He was definitely someone who could be turned to his side and used to further his goals. However, he also came with his own dangerous risks. He had a record of betrayal and was quite greedy, which could end up ruining his entire operation should Blueblood decide it would be wiser to ally with his enemy. He would be put on a maybe list for now, until more information could be gathered on him. He would also be put on the potential threat list and should be exterminated if he finds it necessary. A pawn took the queen before a bishop one was taken up.
The next one on the list, or should I say ones, would be two inventors/con artists, named Flim and Flam. Two unicorn ponies who have a knack for invention and swindling others out of their money, brilliant businessmen in their own right, but very greedy. That greed would most likely be their downfall in the end, unless they are set down a different path. It seems these two could be easily swayed by bits to the humans' side if necessary, and if not can at least be tricked into helping him. They are going on the yes list, as they could end up imperative in securing funds for the group, and creating weapons as needed. The bishop moved now, and the rook was taken up.
The human frowns a little at this next one as he tilts his head a little staring down at the paper, this one was not a single individual, but a group of griffon mercenaries. According to the info, Fancy gathered they were a group of skilled griffon mercs, who once had a carrier in the griffon royal guard before they defected. An interesting group to be sure, but what really caught his eye was the leader of the group. A rough looking female griffon with feathers as black as night and deep piercing golden eyes, a serious and thinking look about her. This was the look of a warrior, and not only that but according to what Fancy had gathered is that she has never failed a mission she had been on before.
The human hums a little as he looks over the griffon groups folder, before placing it on top of Bluebloods. While they would definitely help in any conflict to come, griffons were a rowdy group, and quite greedy. He wasn't sure if he could afford to have both them and the unicorn brothers at the same time, his bits would quickly evaporate into thin air. The human then looks at the last three and takes another one to read through. Moving the rook piece in the process, and picking up the knight.
After a moment of looking through the folder, the human instantly sets it down in the no category. Cultists were far too obsessed with their own agenda and would almost definitely stab him in the back if it meant they could get closer to their own goal. He would have to deal with them if they got in his way, however.
The next one was far more interesting than the cult, which in of itself is an achievement, considering it's a cult and all. This folder contained information on a recently defected royal guard cadet. A young pegasus by the same of sun piercer. The name alone made the man smile in amusement behind his mask, however as he reads through the ponies folder he just grows more and more amused. This just helped to cement in his mind that the opponent he was facing was truly a fool.
The cadet had the best scores out of all others, including the recently promoted shining armor. As for why sun piercer wasn't promoted instead of the good captain, was simply because of an accident. According to the medical report, during a practice spar, sun piercers opponent forgot to place the dull enchantments onto their blade and ended up stabbing poor sun piercer in the side. This caused him to be bedridden for a week, which in turn caused him to miss the ranking test.
It seems sun piercer was angered by this and demanded that he be given a second chance instead of starting out at the very bottom. His request was refused, and he was set to start out as a private. This, of course, infuriated the hard-working pony, causing him to quit not long after.
Now, this was an interesting tale to the human of methodically played with a chess piece in his hand as he raised an eyebrow at the picture of the Pegasus. He was a young lad, maybe in his early twenties? But he had a determined look about him and definitely held that killer look that most soldiers who have seen battle have. He had fiery orange hair, a darker orange coat, and the cutie mark was that of the sun having a spear through it.
The human thinks for a moment, this one would be perhaps the hardest to manipulate minus the cult, who he wasn't even going to touch, those guys creep him out. The human idly drums his fingers against the chest tab, before sighing as he places the knight piece he had been holding down, taking a bishop in the process. Then he takes the cadets folder and moves it over to the yes pile. He might have an idea to capture this piece before it leaves the field.
Now, onto the final folder as he picks up his queen piece. He raises an eyebrow as he looks through the folder with a small him as he does, his foot tapping lightly on the ground as he stares. Then he instantly moves this one into the yes folder as he places the queen down, leading the back king into his white king, where he was trapped. The game over he sighs softly and leans back into his chair, thinking as he stares up at the roof. Three, he can get three of them by next week if he hurries.
He does a little mental map, before nodding a few times, if everything goes according to plan he'll have just enough time to brief them and prepare for those Fancy has gathered for him. Oh god, he needs to make a speech, he hates speeches.
With a loud groan, he pushes himself up to his feet and stretches out his body to a series of satisfying cracks and pops. Him rolling his neck for a moment as he makes his way to the door of the war house. He has some books to steal, some friends to gather, some alcohol to buy, and some things to kill. It's gonna be a fun week for him.
Monday
The human was currently walking a library in the middle of the night, browsing through the books and shelves with a little magic glow stick in his hands. He had managed to avoid all of the magical sensors on the way inside and was now looking for the books he would need.
As he looked he would stop every once and a while to look at a specific book, and then put that into his bag with a happy hum. Some of these being, "The innards of magic. By Starswirl the bearded." "Legendary artifacts and you. By A.K Yearling." and several others that had caught his eyes. Gotta love the forbidden section, though what bothered him was the apparently hidden section within the forbidden section. He would investigate later. Even if he did spend almost ten minutes staring at the fake wall almost drooling, all that knowledge. He had to stop his stare fest however when a guard pony rounded the corner and he had to hide quickly.
He grumbles a little in annoyance that his dro-study session had been interrupted, and instead moved back to why he had come here in the first place. The history section. Fun right? Anyways, he finally reaches the history section with far more books then he originally intended to get, he starts to peruse through the books, looking for a few specific ones that he'll need. He grins widely as he finally pulls a few out and places them in his book bag with the other books he had.
He then turned and was about to head out of the row, before his eyes widen slightly behind his mask as he sees a lantern approaching. The guards weren't supposed to patrol this part for another two minutes!
Thinking quickly as he jumps up and pulls himself on top of the shelf he was closest to and pushed his body as far as he could back into the wood. He hears the clip-clopping of hooves bellow and tilts his body slightly to get a glance before his eyes widen and then narrow at who it is. It just had to be the princesses student, didn't it? It seemed the famous bookworm was looking for another book for her to read, and it just so happened to be in the history section. He either had the worst luck ever, or fate was real and decided to flip him the finger while laughing louder then discord on a chaos high. Speaking of, fuck discord.
Anyways, he continues to look down at the purple pony as he waits for her to leave. He, however, has to let out a hiss as she grabs a certain book, so that's what Celestia wanted her for. Clever girl.
The human then seems to let out an odd growling noise in the back of his throat as he sees her pull out another book. Titled "The great disaster. The story of how a-" The rest of the title is covered by a purple hoof as the pony down belly examines it curiously, mumbling something about why Celestia wanted her to read this book. This causes the humans' grip to tighten on top of the shelf, causing the creaking of wood. The noise causing the purple pony to look up confused.
She would see nothing except a little handprint being embedded in the wood slightly, causing her to frown a little confused, before deciding to just ignore it for now. She has a project to work on, and she needs to prepare for the test that Celestia is almost definitely preparing for her! Meanwhile, the human had slipped into the other row, before working his way past the guards and out of the library, him returning to his wonderful warehouse home. He has some reading to do.
Tuesday
Blueblood was currently in his chambers at his desk, frowning over some documents. "Despicable." He mutters to himself as he looks over the report of what the royal treasury was being used for, as well as reports over the guard training. The treasury was being spent to help some farm in some backwater down instead of being used for something more relevant. He was starting to think Celestia was a fool more and more over time.
He shakes his head a few times as he continues to look disgusted over all of the documents before he huffs and pulls out some of his own. Signing off on some rather, annoying projects for his "aunt." Especially the movement of some of his own troops, who would be spying on some of her guards. What? Did you expect a prince to not have his own personal army? Celestia may be a fool, but she was certainly careful with things like this, and she needs him alive, as he controls quite a lot of the economy and has a lot of power in politics.
He continues to work until he hears a faint sound in the background causing his ear to twitch as he frowns a little. He stops his writing for a moment as he gets up and looks around his chambers cautiously, before noticing a window opened up in front of him. He frowns a little as his horn starts to glow as he prepares to cast a spell, that is before he freezes at the feeling of cold steel being placed against his neck. He sees the slight glimmer in the blade as it rests lightly against his neck, before hearing a quite and rough voice speak out. "I wouldn't call for help if I were you."
Blueblood glances to the direction of the voice to see the wielder of the blade, holding it at the ready. The odd creature before him seemed similar to a minotaur, except much smaller and less bulky. Blue tires to keep a calm mind at this as he stares at the potential assailant before him, before giving a small smirk. "And I would get your blade away from my throat if I were you." The moment he finishes that sentence there were suddenly several ponies in the room, each holding a weapon at the human. Seeming to just appear out of nowhere.
There is silence for several moments as the human looks around at all of the weapons pointed at his vitals. Then, suddenly, all the guards die around him, spraying blood everywhere, because of Hashirama cells!... Sorry, inside joke. Anyways, after assessing his situation he frowns a little, before slowly lowering the sword he stole from some random guard. "Well. Fuck." He says simply as he looks around at the how outnumbered he was.
He wasn't stupid, he knew he couldn't fight against that many trained guards, and they were obviously much better trained then Celestia's schmucks. So, he thought diplomacy was the best idea for now, even if he had intended to do that in the first place, just without any guards.
He stares around at all of them for several moments, before he tilts his head to Blueblood who was looking quite smug. "You know, I didn't come here to kill you? If I did, you wouldn't be alive right now." He says, trying to stop the smug little pony before his head causes the castle to fall right off the mountain.
This safely just seems to make blueblood more pleased with himself as he looks up at the human. "I know, that's why my guards haven't killed you yet. Now, do tell, what a beast such as yourself would want with me?" Blueblood sticks his nose up at the beast part, causing the human to frown a little. He wasn't that ugly was he? Wait, none of you have seen his face.
The human frowns a little at the guards around him and starts to plan an escape route should things go south. After this, he frowns a little at the arrogant pony before him and tilts head slightly. "Well, several things, just dropping in to say hello, have some tea, maybe some crumpets, and if we have time. I dunno, plan the downfall of Princess Celestia?" The human says sarcastically, sounding amused.
Blueblood looks shocked at this and actually sputters a little as he tries to form words before he starts to chuckle shaking his head. "You are either the stupidest, smartest, bravest or just plain most suicidal creature I have ever met." Blueblood says still chuckling slightly as he looks up at the larger creature before him. "Now, what makes you think that I would betray my auntie for some strange monkey?" Blueblood asks raising an eyebrow as he sits there, his guards still ready to murder the creature.
The human hums a little before carefully and slowly reaches into his cloak, making sure that the guards saw exactly what he was doing, before pulling out a large folder. "This, is all your little exploits against Celestia, from trade sabotage to making important individuals disappear. Quite a large rap sheet honestly." The human says putting it down in front of Blueblood, who frowned as he picks it up with his magic as he starts to read it.
"Where did you get this information?" He asks seriously after he finishes verifying the content of the folder, his eyes narrowed and serious as he looks up at the larger creature with a glare.
"I have my ways." The human replies simply as he crosses his arms, causing a few of the guard to push their weapons a little closer to the human.
Blueblood glare sharpens a little at this as he thinks some things over in his head, before sighing a little as he shakes his head. "I see. Ignoring how you manage to get this information, what I want to know is how you plan on overthrowing Celestia." The human grins a little at this, the fish has noticed the bait.
"Simple my dear pony friend, Revolution." He says spreading his arms wide with a wide smile behind his mask, the smile was quite obvious with his body language and the tilt of the head. Blueblood looking very confused as he tilts his head a little, and finding the odd mask smile to be incredibly unnerving.
"Revolution?"
The human grins as he spins around, ignoring the threatening thrust of the guard around him as he throws his arms out. "Yes! Glorious Revolution! You see, throughout history, all intelligent species have sought their freedom and power, this is a natural instinct in all things." He says his cloak blowing slightly in the wind from the open window a few feet away, his fingers flexing slightly as he turns back to Blueblood and bends down to his height, the creepy eye smile now right in front of the prince's face. Some guards now actually poking the human with their weapons. "All creatures desire a cause or reason for existence, it is usually found in the two previously mentioned things, and some would fight and die for such things. Now, if you give others a goal and have them fight for something greater then themselves, then they'll fight with all their strength and to their very last breath! Until they have shed more blood than any other, and have claimed what is rightfully theirs! This is the goal I am offering to all who join me, and now to you~" He says throwing his arms into the air as he stands at full height now, some of the weapons drilling into his body slightly before Blueblood gestures the guards away.
Blueblood looks at the human for a moment, looking incredibly unnerved, confused, interested, and slightly inspired at the same time. Him frowning slightly as he tilts his head slightly to the large creature. "That still doesn't answer my question, how do you plan on overthrowing Celestia, even with a revolution." The prince asks confused as he tilts his head slightly, he had a feeling this creature had something up his sleeve.
The human continues to hold his mask smile at the little pony, the moon shining through the window and casting his shadow slightly over the well-dressed pony. "Now why would I tell someone who could be a potential enemy that? While I may want you on my side, don't think for a moment I won't slit your throat if you cross me." The human says happily causing the guards to tense slightly at the words, Blueblood feeling a shiver go down his spine at the words.
Blueblood stares at the human in both awe, and fear as he realizes something. He never held control in this situation, sure his guards could probably kill the human, but not before the human killed him. That's even assuming his guards could stop the human. Blueblood imagines the only reason they aren't fighting right now is that the human realizes that so much focus would not be very good for stealth. There is also that the human had managed to sneak into the most heavily guarded location in Equestria, without being noticed, and if he had been then the ones who noticed didn't live long enough to tell the tail. Then there is the fact the human could simply escape and leak all the information he had gathered out.
This human, in the ten maybe twenty minutes they had been talking, managed to put him in a position to were if he didn't agree, he would die. If he said no, the human could simply kill him or publish the information and have him executed by the crown for treason. If he said yes, however, he had the potential to gain everything from this little Revolution of his. This human was dangerous, very very dangerous.
After several moments of silence with the human still holding the creepy mask smile, his form seeming to tower over Bluebloods in victory. "Fine." Blueblood finally relents as his ears fold a little, his guard backing off as he knows he had been beaten this time. Easily in fact.
Then humans smile seems to grow wider behind the mask, judging by the subtle shifting of the flesh that was visible. "Good, glad to have you on our side. But for now, I have some simple things for you to do, before Sunday preferably." He says happily as he claps his hands together with a large grin and held tilt, the glowing white part of his mask making this even creepier.
Blueblood nods a few times in understanding as he straightens his suit a little, him gaining a much more serious look as he decides that until he could find an advantage, he should probably do the best he can. "Very well, what is it you want me to do exactly?"
The human reaches into his coat once again as he pulls out a large folded paper, before holding it out to Blueblood, who took and opened it up. On the paper is a bulleted to-do list. "I need you to find info on some of the places on that list, buy others, and find the last times on the list. I will also need you to secure a source of funds and communication between us. Something that is preferably untrackable by magic if you don't mind." The human says happily as he claps a little humming to himself as he tilts his head to Blueblood slightly.
Blueblood nods a few times as he thinks this over, frowning a little at the fact he has to buy some of these places and that he needs to find a way to fund a revolution against his own county, not to mention how careful he'll need to be from now on. "Anything else?" He asks with an accepting sigh, hoping that the strange creature didn't have anything stupidly hard to do.
"Nope! That's all! You will, however, need to attend our first meeting on Sunday, at this location~" He says in a sing-song way as he passes over another slip of paper, where does he keep all of this stuff?
He continues to hold his creepily happy attitude as he saunters his way over to the window, still reveling in the sweet, sweet, taste of victory. Him looking back at Blueblood with a single glowing white eye and that unnerving mask grin he loves so much. "I look forward to working with you." He says simply before jumping out the window and vanishing into the night.
Blueblood stares out of his window for several moments, before glancing at his guards who were all standing there nervously. He sighs exasperatedly as he looks to them, before tilting his head slightly. "Do any of you have a problem with the choice I just made?" He asks in a tone showing just how tired and done with the day he was. The guards glanced at each other for a moment, before shaking their heads.
"Good, inform your commander I have new orders for him, and hurry. We have a lot of work to do." He says with a small sigh as he heads over his desk to continue his normal princely work, his mind working to plan out everything he would need to do before the meeting the strange creature mentioned on Sunday.
Thursday
The human was currently on a train, literally on top of a train, reading through a book, one of the ones he stole from the library. The wind blowing through his cloak as he sits there, oddly enough though he was able to keep the pages from blowing around.
It was currently Thursday, with nothing having really happened on Wednesday, except him having sent a letter to one Flim and Flam. Simply inviting them to come to the meeting with an offer of bits, no need for some big spectacle when something can be resolved so simply.
Anyways, the reason he was on the train in the middle of the day was that he was on his way to his next target, who had decided to move back to Manehatten after his hole incident. He would be his last target, and perhaps the hardest to convince to his side, hopefully, he can find a weakness to chip away at.
Anyways, the reason he needed to do this in the day instead of the night, as he preferred, was that there are no trains heading in that direction at night. Well, there was but that was to heavily guarded thanks to some bandits having gone after it before, thanks for that Blueblood.
After several moments of the human just sitting on top of the train reading the book and slowly flipping through the pages as he sits there, reading through them slowly. Then he suddenly glances up as the mental count in his head finishes and he tilts his head slightly. Watching at the slowly growing city in the distance as he sits there.
As the city grows closer and closer the human frowns a little as he stands up, the wing really whipping against his coat now. Soon, just before the train passed the first few buildings the city, the human jumped off, landing into a little roll just outside the city.
The human quickly moving to a hiding space, to be exact, a little ally in between the house he had jumped next to. The movement from off the train and into the ally had been so smooth and quick that it would simply look like a blur moving from out of the sky, and into the ally. The human frowns a little as he quickly goes over a little mental map of the city he had memorized not long ago.
Then he was off, bobbing and weaving through the cities alleys and streets, avoiding any pony he could have run into skillfully, the most they ever saw of him being a glance at his cloak at most. The human dogging carts, stands, trash barrels, and several other random obstacles around him. The human moving with such grace as if he had done it a thousand times before, perhaps he has. (Reference to his movement, assassin.)
As he continued to make his way past the large skyscrapers with his coat fluttering around him as he moves past each building, shop, and other places. The human glancing off to the side at a little white pony with a cutie mark of three diamonds. He doesn't quite know what about her caught his eye, as she just seemed to be a normal pony buying some fabric. He continues to think for a moment, before deciding to just ignore it and vanishes from sight.
Soon he arrives at his location, a much smaller home on the outskirts of the city. Why didn't he just go around the city instead of going through it with chances of being spotted? Well, I ask you this, what's the fastest way to a destination?
Anyways, as the human arrives he takes a moment to look over the house curiously, taking in possible entrances and exits as he stands there. Soon he just shrugs however and walks up to the door and knocks a few times, before waiting patiently as he hears a voice telling him to wait inside.
He hums a little as he looks around, admiring the house for a moment as he sits there. He doesn't even notice that the wind was still blowing against his coat, he is quite used to the feeling by now.
Soon the door is opened by a small, fiery orange pegasus who blinks a few times confused, then looks up at the large figure who was around double his height. The pony then instantly enters a subtle combat stance while at the same time keeping a friendly look about him, which would fool most but not this human.
"Um, hello. Who are you?" The young and slightly energetic voice of the young solder sounding out to the human. The human crossing his arms as he stands there.
"Hmm, someone who has been looking for you." He says simply, not answering the question as he continues to stare down at the pony. Humming softly to himself as he does, a tilted head. "May I come in?"
The pony blinks a few times at this and shifts nervously as his eyes narrow a little, a small frown growing on his face. Soon just walking back and cautiously allowing the human to enter, still keeping an eye on him no matter where he went.
The man walks in with a small hum as he looks around curiously with a slightly tilted head. The house was pretty simple as he tilts his head slightly, the home being full of little painting, a bookshelf full of books about war and battle, some weapons packed away in a closet, and some rather decorative furniture.
He hums a little as he goes to sit down on a couch, throwing his feet up as he enters a rather relaxed position. The human watching as the pony goes to sit down on a little cushion not far from the couch. The two just recently staring at each other, sizing each other up.
"So, why were you looking for me exactly?" The pony asked confused as he stares across at the larger creature.
"I came here to recruit you." The human says simply as he idly shifts his position every few moments, trying to find the most comfortable position he could.
"For what?" The pony asks, a etch of excitement in his tone as he glances to where he stored his armor and weapon.
"A revolution to overthrow Celestia and destroy everything she has built." The human says pulling a flask of something out of his cloak and opening it up, before taking a sip as he watches the ponies reaction.
The pony blinks a few times confused before he seemed to realizes exactly what the human had said and started to cough and sputter, choking on his own spit. The pony quickly entering a combat stance as he stares threateningly at the human, who just lazily waves in response. "You are to come with me right now, for crimes against her majesty and the land of Equestria. You hav-"
"Have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. Yadaydayada." The human says nonchalantly as he waves his hand slightly in a so-so gesture. His foot tapping ideally as he looks over at the pony with his creepy mask grin. "I've heard it all before, and it doesn't really matter, the moment Celestia sees me, instant execution." He says still waving his hand in a so-so gesture as he tilts his head a little to the pony, his fingers idly twisting his flask in his hands.
The human sits there as he waits for the pony to get over his stunned silence once again, and cuts him off before he can get a word out when he does try to talk. "You can preach all you want about how Celestia is such a wonderful ruler and how she would never do such a thing, but you don't know her as I do, and I can tell you without a doubt in my mind. She would kill another without a second thought, hell, she has done it before. Now then, before you continue you're little freakout, why don't you take a look at these?" He says as he reaches into his coat and pulls out another folder, what a surprise, then just drops it in front of the Pegasus.
The Pegasus frowns a little as he glances between the human, and then the folder, then back to the human. The ponies curiosity growing, he lets out a gulp, swallowing the growing saliva in his throat, and reaches over with a wing to grab the file. He opens it and starts to look through it curiously, his frown growing as he read through it. Several guards being paid to sabotage his training, some making it harder than others, and finally the order to stab him to make sure he didn't make it to ranking. All approved and signed by Celestia herself. The pony looks at these documents in shock before he throws him onto the ground.
The human looks at the documents on the floor, before looking back at the Pegasus. "Rude." He says as he shakes his head a little, a small smile heard in his voice with a little amusement. His fingers once again drumming against something, this time the armrest of the couch. "Hard to believe I take it? Confused perhaps?"
The pony continues to look shocked as he looks down at the documents, his eyes wide and a little frown on his face. The pony soon tilting his head back to the human, eyes wide still as he stares at him. His mouth opening then closing over and over again. It looked like his entire world had just been shattered. The human raising an eyebrow at this as he leans back into his chair as he lays there, his fingers he's still drumming on the couch.
"I'ma take that as a yes." He says rolling his eyes at the small pony as he sits there, a frown on his face. "Now then, let's explain as to why your oh so glorious princess has decided to betray you like this? Why she would work so hard to make sure you don't become a captain. To put it simply, she was showing favoritism. Do you know who else could have potentially become a captain outside of you? Someone who is currently the captain?" He asks grinning down on Sun as he sits there, watching as a shocked look grew on the ponies face.
"Shining Armor?" Sun says shocked as he stares down at the documents, the pony thinking it over slowly as he sits there in amazement. He slowly starts to piece it over as he tilts his up at the human, who grinned widely as he sees the human had figured it out.
"Indeed, and if you think about it, who's Celestia's student?" He asks grinning as he chuckles a little, him soon throwing his arms out in quite a flamboyant way. "Why none other than Shining's little sister, Twilight Sparkle!" He says chuckling as the ponies look slowly starts to morph into a look of betrayal, the plan seeming to go well so far. "So, to sum it up, you were denied the chance to become captain, your dream, all because Celestia wanted to stay in good standing with her "most faithful student." The human says chuckling a little as he once again gains the creepy eye smile. "How's that for betrayal?"
Sun Piercer continues to look at the documents in shock, slowly picking them up and looking through them all again. His anger slowly growing as the humans' words start to make more and more seance to him, his frown slowly deepening. After a while, he was practically shaking in his seat as he squeezes and crumbles the documents. Soon he just screams in anger as he throws the documents to the side, the pony getting to his hooves as he stomps onto them angrily.
His hooves making loud banging sounds as he slams down on the papers, again and again, the pony almost growling in anger as he continues to show his rage. Meanwhile, the human was still just sitting there looking at his hand, glancing up every few moments as he hears Sun cursing out Celestia. Then just shrugging and going back to admiring his hands, thinking to himself as he waits for the little pony to calm down. Checkmate.
After several minutes of shouting, stomping, and stabbing the papers, the pony having a gotten his weapon not long ago. The pony just sat there panting, the papers just a bunch of unrecognizable scraps. The pony soon turning to the human and growling out just what the human wanted to hear. "Where do I sign up?"
The human feels a little relief at the ponies words, as he didn't know if Sun would believe the documents, and even if he did he could have just stayed loyal to Equestria. If things hadn't gone exactly the way they did, this could have ended up horribly, with the human fleeing the scene after having to fight and murder the little pony. But, since everything had gone to plan, the human grins widely as he claps his hands a few times pleased, changing position once again.
The human now leaning forward to the little pony, the large unnerving grin on his face. Him handing a very familiar slip of paper to the little pony, containing the location of the meeting place on it. "Here, this Sunday." He says grinning widely as he sits there.
The pony looks at the paper and memorizes the location after a moment, before looking up at the human. "Um, what may I call you? If you don't mind me asking." He asks, wanting to know the name of his potential new leader.
The human hums a little as he brings a hand up to his face and ideally strokes his chin as he tilts his head a little. "Well, I suppose you could simply call me Leader." The human says shrugging a little as he stands and stretches out slightly, before making his way to the door quickly. He has a train to catch soon.
The pony follows the human silently and watches as he gets ready to leave. The pony thinking over their choice for a moment, and not regretting it for a moment. He freezes however as he sees the large human look back at him, the white glowing eye and feeling the human suddenly giving off causing to shiver in fear. "I look forward to seeing you there Sun, and I do hope you live up to my expectations." The human says a grin in their voice along with a threat, their clock swaying slightly back and forth.
Then he was gone, leaving quickly out the door and vanishing out into the city.
The pony stands there for several minutes, before falling back on his rump panting and sweating slightly. His eyes wide and body shaking in fear. When the human looked back at him, it felt like he was about to die, that nothing he did could stop the inevitable or the human. It was terrifying for the pony honestly, and he was having trouble calming himself down and getting his thoughts in order.
With the human however he was grinning widely, finally having everything he needed for now. He planned on going after his other targets later, he couldn't do it now, after all, he had to prepare. The human chuckling a little to himself as he dances through the city once again. This is going to be fun!
Author's Note
Soooo, I've decided to try and post a chapter every Wednesday and Sunday. So yaaa, I hope you all enjoy the story so far! I know I am.
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