I casually lean back against a concrete wall and take in a strong inhale of my cigarette. I hold in a few seconds and blow out into the humid night air. I flick the ash off the end of the cigarette and pop it pop back in my mouth. I hold up my left arm up to get a look at the time. I grunt out annoyingly. I hear an annoying whine coming from my partner, which made my annoyance level go up a bit.
“Ugrh! What’s taking them so long to get here?! They’re late, for fuck’s sake!” My dragoness companion, Cinders , says in frustration.
“We are meeting up with scumbags, so it’s typical for you ordinary scumbags to be late to these type of things,” I casually say.
Before the frustrated dragoness can reply with anything snarky, two shady individuals snakily appear from out of the shadows of the night. I took notice that one was human male who look to be your typical thug and the one next to him was unicorn stallion covered in human tattoos. The two were just your typical good-for-nothings, and not the type of people I thought they food be.
“Your late you sack of shits,” Cinders growls out.
“Re-lax, be happy that we are here. We had a few problems getting here. Fucking pigs are hot out tonight.” The human male says with a grunt of annoyance, then a grin spreads through his face. He lets out a low whistle. “Come on out ladies!”
A few dozen women of different race came out from the darkness and reveal themselves. To my side I heard Cinders growl lowly at the site of the collared women. I spoke to her with the telepathic link we had and told her to calm down and to blow out cover. She did, reluctantly.
I counted six women in total, which all of them seemed to look ok, but still looked banged up. Two are human women, three are mares, one was a young dragoness who look petrified. The site of a child being this kind of situation made my blood boil. I took a final inhale of cigarette and threw it down to the ground and the putting it out with my foot. I got off the wall I was laying against and walked up to the two shady guys. The human male thug pulls out a gun and points at me to stop from coming an closer. The stallion lights up his horn and hands with magic, daring me to do something. I give a bored look at this.
“I showed you that I got the whores, now you gotta show us that you got the bits.”
I reach into the jacket of my suit and watch as the two males tense up at this. They then relax as I pull out a bag full of bits. The sound of the clinking coins sends wicked grins across their faces. The human male looks towards the stallion and nods his head towards me. “Give’em the control to collars of these bitches, we gettin’ out of here reach!” He says giddily.
The remote gets tossed to Cinders, but as it was tossed, I rushed forward with blinding speed. I stood in front of the human male with my hand dug into his gut. The male falls to the ground unconscious. I hear the stallion ignite fire off a spell and quickly deflect away. I rush towards him and send a roundhouse kick to the side of his head with enough force to knock him out. I look at the two out cold trafficking individuals with annoyance. I kick the human male lightly enough, and he grunts in pain. With that response I knew they were still alive.
“Cinders,” I call out to the dragoness.
The charcoal scaled dragon stands at attention. “Yes, Sergeant?”
“Radio in for an ambulance, and get those damned collars of those people. Also, try to ease them up a bit.” I take a look at the huddled up women who seem to be shaking in fear at the sight of me. To what reason, I had no idea.
“Aye, sir!” She does as she’s told and quickly calls for an ambulance. After she did that, she consoles the women and child. The women were scared at first of her, but she showed them her badge and they soon relaxed. A lot of the women were relieved to be saved, the lot of them crying in tears of joy. I let Cinders do her thing, and I focus on finding anything these two guys might have on them to lead to their hideouts. I hand cuff the two together with magically cuffs and I put a inhibitor ring on to the stallion’s horn. Once I pat them down and find nothing but a letter, a handgun, and some ammunition I set them to the side and take out cigarette from the inside pocket of my suit jacket. I pop the cigarette in my mouth and right before I light it I spot to notice my armor was visible through a burnt hold on the arm of my dress suit. I groan out tiredly.
“Jesus Christ, I won’t hear the end of it from Rarity when she sees this.” I quickly light my smoke to stop the oncoming headache.
After everything got wrapped up with the traffickers and the women, I made a quick stop at barracks in Ponyville to make a report on the incident. Then, I left Cinders to interrogate the convicts so she can get any needed info on any other where a-bouts of bases that could be found. The letter didn’t have much information for me to extract. It was mostly about the type of females they wanted the most. Also, if had some explicit stuff written down that the guys wanted to do to the women. Reading it got me so pissed that I lost control of myself and sent out a strong magically pulse throughout the barracks, temporarily making the power go out. After the power came back on I calmed myself and prepared to head out, but before I headed out, I got out of my armor and dressed into some casual clothing. I put on a white muscle shirt, a pair of blue jeans, and set of beige combat boots. Once I was set, I pressed a button on the suit and it started to fold it self, origami style, into a watch on my left wrist.
I could never get over how amazing the suit was, and how it could do that. I don’t know how the scientists did it to fold like this, but all I know most of it is due to the magic infused metals used for the suit. I never questioned how they made the suits, I was more curious at how long it took to perfect them.
Anyways, after I finished with the things I needed to do here I bundled up my dress suit and went out the barracks, saying my good nights to the nightly staff there. I stepped out into the humid Equrstrian air and headed my way home, or to be more specific, Canterlot castle. I started living in the castle when I first went into training for the special unit. Those days were the worst I ever had. They were even worse than my days when I lived in that god awful orphanage. Thinking about those days set my mood sour. I didn’t like to think of those days. They were memories I hated when I was a kid. I lived in the orphanage my entire birth, child, and teenage life. I got out of there when I was eighteen, saved up some money over the past jobs I had and got the fuck out of there. The people that were there were complete assholes to every kid there. They treated us like shit. They even threatened us to keep quiet about all the things they did to us. I didn’t take their threats lightly. Once I got of there I reported them to police and got their asses sent to jail. That was the best day of my life.
Well, not really.
Skipping a few years into my life, the day I turned 25, I got married to a beautiful woman named Rose. It was also the day where we first made contact with Equis. That day was all over the place, though that didn’t stop us from enjoying our wedding. The year this happened was 2025, which was dubbed ‘First Contact’. It was pretty stupid that they named it that, a lot of people thought the same thing too, but we went with it. So many people were riled up about this, and some were against it. Wasn’t much of a surprise we had those type of people. The government sent military operatives through the portal made from the other Equestrians. They made contact with the rulers there and made peace with them. Though, there was a bit of a problem at first. One of the guys that got sent through the portal was a rookie and wasn’t paying attention to where he was going and got a face of cleavage from one of the monarchs. Needles to say, the guy was sent to the hospital with a few broken bones.
A few years in after all that has went with ‘First Contact’ the United States made a peace treaty with Equestria, a complicated one, but nonetheless was successfully made and signed. Both humans and the inhabitants co-existed in peace, humans living on Equestria, Equestrians living on Earth, a lot of them becoming couples, and etc. There was also other inhabitants visiting from Equestria. That’s when things started to turn for the worst.
Me and my wife had recently become parents when things started to get hectic. I was working a full-time shift as a police officer, my wife didn’t work. I took care of work while she stayed home and took care of the the two kids we conceived; one being a boy of six years and a girl of three years. I loved my family with every fiber of my heart. I spoiled them rotten every time I got the chance. I’d do anything for them, even risking my life to protect them. Fate was looking good for us at the time, and then, fate turned for the worst so suddenly. Crimes steadily arose between the two worlds. People and ponies who held bad intentions ruined many lives. As gun violence wasn’t a bad thing already, it got worse with magic being played. Magic was a complicated thing to predict for us humans.
The ones who were magic wielders got into gun stores and stealing all kinds of guns. Some of them even released dangerous convicts out into the worlds. Chaos arose quickly as violence broke out rapidly. Robbery, murder, rape, and other disgusting acts of violence were in ploy. These guys have been planning this, and they had the advantage.
At the time, everything went to shit, I was hauling ass throughout the streets of Los Angeles. Crime was deadly there. Rival gangs being at each other’s throats was the worst. The lot them had shootouts with military class guns in hand. Some gangs even had unicorns who were even more deadly than the the guns. The ones with magic made matters worse. The ones with guns had their weapons kept fueled with bullets by the unicorns. Luckily we had some unicorns on our side to fend of the bad ones, but that still didn’t solve our crime problems. Shit hit the fan when gryphons and dragons got in. The dragons being the worst of them all.
My team and I were pinned inside a building, taking heavy fire from guns, and literally fire, from the dragons. Taking out the dragons was the toughest. Their fucking scales just made the bullets ricochet off them. We couldn’t do much with our guns and the ponies couldn’t do much with their magic either. Things weren’t look up for us. The lot of my team was getting butchered and we couldn’t do anything about it. Left and right human and non-human comrades were either getting gunned down, killed by magic, or scorched by the fire breathing dragons. It was a fucking nightmare. Under the heavy fire, I noticed that our enemies had this green haze coming out the corner of their eyes. I really didn’t give it much thought at the time, because of the situation I was in. The thoughts I had were if I was going get out of this alive and see my family again. I hoped to god that my family was alright and that miracle would come, and with that thought, it did. Something unexpectedly waved passed us. It felt so weird as the off pulse passed through. After it did, the gun fire immediately stopped, everything went quite.
All the baddies were all petrified in stone. Some of us didn’t know what the hell happened, but we soon found out as one of our comrades, who was unicorn mare, cried out in joy that the ‘Elements of Harmony’ saved us. She had tears of relief sliding down her face at how happy she was to be alive. I didn’t pay to much mind to what happened, I just wanted to go check on my family. I got out of the building and hopped into my car. I raced down the wrecked streets and quickly made it to my house. My house was riddled with bullet holes and scorch marks. A few statues laid across my lawn, the door to my house wide open. My blood ran cold as I got out of the car and raced into the house. I started to call out to my wife and kids, but I didn’t get a reply. I ran upstairs and once I was up there I found a trail of blood leading to my son’s room.
I got into the room and stopped dead in my tracks. I felt my heart drop and my body go cold at the gruesome site I was seeing. Different limbs of my family laid across the room, organs stuck to the walls, and their heads stringed up on a ceiling fan. I couldn’t keep the bile down that built up in my mouth. I vomited whatever I had ate onto the floor, not taking notice of a statue of man that laid on the floor with a wicked smile on his stoned face.
Some couple years fly by and it’s the year 2040, the year I vouched my life to rid of any evil and stop all crime as possible. The year was the day the Mavericks were formed. Out of all the people out in the entire world, I was the only human to be compatible with the serum the human and pony scientists made. The serum only seemed compatible with the inhabitants of Equestria. There was only seven of us in total that made up the special unit; two ponies, one gryphon, two thestral ponies, one dragon, and me. All seven of us were selected to be in the special unit. The lot of us got injected with a small portion of the serum, to see if we were compatible with it. We tested positive and had no negative side of affects. Others that had the serum injected into them all started to get convulsions the second the serum set in. Blood would pour out from their eyes, ears, and mouths as they spasmed uncontrollably. Some of them died right after their convulsions ended, and it was always the humans who died from it. The ones in Equestria survived. The scientists say it was because of the serum being infused with strong magic. Since humans have never been in contact, or lived with it, it would react this way to us. Though, not to me. When they first injected it into me nothing happened. No uncontrollable spasming and no blood. I was the only human to withstand the serum. I should of felt proud that day that I got accepted to be a Maverick, but... I was devoid of emotion. I changed a lot ever since the death’s of my family. I swore to myself that I’d get back at the one named Sombra. He was the one who had all those people under his control.
Celestia confirmed that it was his doing of, but not entirely. A lot them still had a mind of their own and went on with the crimes. It was a gruesome mess that day, and till this day it haunts.
I quickly shake my head to rid of my thoughts as I make a quick stop at Rarity’s house to drop of my dress suit. Her house wasn’t far from the barracks, just a few blocks down from it. I arrived at her door and saw that the lights were on, so I knocked.
No answer.
I was going to knock again, but I held off as I heard tiny hoofsteps, scampering up to the door. “I got it Dad!” A young voice yells out ecstatically. The door swings open and in front me stands a young filly. Her name is Clarity Belle, a halfbreed of pony and dragon. She’s the eldest child of Rarity and Spike’s. She is almost identical to her mother.
The young child stands at the door with her mouth wide in shock. Then another youngster shows up. “Who is it big si-...” the small boy’s voice draws out as he looks from behind his sister, looking at me the same way his sibling is.
I kneel down before the two and give them a small warming smile. “Hey there kiddos, its been a while since I visited, uh?”
Tears begin to well up in the corners of their eyes. They shoot towards me and wrap themselves around me. I wrap my arms around them and hug them close. I let out a small chuckle at how they were acting. I hear heavy steps coming our way and I immediately knew who it was, and I already knew once he saw me he was going to start balling his eyes out too.
“Kids? Who’s at... the... door?” Me and Spike lock eyes as I give the over grown biped dragon a smile. Spike starts to get choked up. “M-Mike, it’s y-you.” His voice holding so much relieve in it.
I let the two hiccuping kids go and stand to full height. I open my arms wide, never letting the warm smile I’m holding go. The grown dragon walks up to me wraps his arms around me. I do the same as his grip tightens around me. He starts to cry on my shoulder softly, hiding his face from his kids. I chuckle once more.
“Still a big softly, aren’t you?” I pat him on the back. “I missed you too kid.” I feel Spike gripping the back of my shirt has he starts to hiccup. He started to mumble stuff out about him thinking he wouldn’t ever see me again. I roll my eyes at that, reassuring him that I won’t be leaving anytime soon. He lets go of me and quickly wipes his tears away so he wouldn’t let his kids see him.
“I’m sorry I didn’t send any type of message to you guys, and everyone else. Work was piling up and I couldn’t find the time to send one.” I sigh tiredly, but nonetheless I kept the smile. “Still, it’s really nice to see you guys again.” I look towards the open door. “Where’s Rarity?”
Clarity is the one to answer. “Mom’s asleep, Uncle Mikey. She’s been up all day making clothes.”
I sigh once more. “That mare, I swear. She overworks herself to much.”
Spike snorts and crosses his arms across his chest. “Mhm, says the pot calling the kettle black.”
The two kids giggle at their fathers snark comment. I can only laugh with them as I really had nothing to say back. “Anyways, the reason I unexpectedly stopped here was because of this...” I pulled out the bundled up suit and handed it to Spike. He carefully grabs it, avoiding from shredding it with his chawed hands. “The right arm sleeve has a burned hole on it from an earlier mission I had. You mind telling Rarity to fix it for me? But, tell her when she has the time to work on it.”
Spike nods his head and then gives me this longing look. “Are you going be leaving already?”
“Sadly, yes. I still got work to do. Though, next week I’ll be off, so I’ll be visiting everyone.” I say to bring up his spirit, which does. The kids were weren’t happy that I was leaving so soon, but they reluctantly cheered up as I reassured them that them and the other kids will have all next. This got them cheer excitedly but quickly went silent has they hurt their mother yell from up stairs. Me and Spike looked at each other nervously at the thought of Rarity waking up and walking out here. Having to disturb Rarity’s beauty sleep won’t end well for us, so I gave my goodbye’s to the three and each gave them another hug.
I focused my magic, closed my eyes, and pictured Canterlot Castle. Once I had the image in my mind I reopened my eyes and gave small two-finger salute and vanished into the night sky.
