Fall of Day

[TIME: 4:45pm, LOCATION: Unknown]

“Heart rate is stable, blood pressure seems to be normal,” Fluttershy said to herself, looking at the heart monitor next to Myles’ bed. She’d been keeping a watch on him for a couple of hours now. “Oh! It looks like I need to replace the bandage on his cheek. Now where did I put them?” She asked herself, opening the drawers across the room. Meanwhile, Myles was just waking up. He groaned in pain as he opened his eyes to a blinding light.

“Ugh it feels like an elephant is sitting on me,” Myles thought as he slowly started to sit up. He looked down to see wires and bandages around his chest connected to the heart monitor. Confused he took one of the wires on his chest and stared at it, thinking how he ended up like this. Then memories from earlier that day started to replay in his mind. Every event up until the blinding light from Rainbow's lightning attack playing seemingly frame by frame, until he was knocked out of his trance like state by a soft and surprised voice.

“Oh! Y-You’re awake! I-I didn’t mean to wake you,” Fluttershy said rushing over to Myles, “Try not to move you’re still hurt.” Myles looked up at the yellow pony. The look in his eyes, the same tired and empty look that the mares at the train station saw, made Fluttershy shrink in fear. “O-Or d-don’t. Y-You don’t have i-if you don’t want to.” she stuttered unknowingly backing away.

Myles flopped back on the bed with a sigh not having the mental or physical energy to move. Fluttershy calming down a little bit started to walk back to the heart monitor. “Where am I?” Myles asked with a raspy voice, rubbing his eyes.

“You’re in the infirmary, you blacked out a little while after you stepped on the ship.” Fluttershy said not looking away from the monitor.

“Wait...a ship?” Myles questioned sitting up.

“Y-Yes,” Fluttershy said, “Didn’t Rarity tell you?”

“Who?” He asked a slight confused look on his face.

“Oh dear, did you get a concussion too? I-I didn’t think you had one when you got on!” Fluttershy panicked.

“N-No! My head is fine. I just don’t know who you’re talking about,” Myles said trying to calm down the flustered mare, “Is she the white unicorn with the purple mane?”

“O-Oh, yes she is,” she sighed in relief, “She’s the ‘captain’ over all of us.” Myles nodded. A small awkward silence filled the room for a while, Fluttershy looking down at the ground.

“I...never got your name.” Myles said breaking the silence. The room fell silent for just a few seconds. The continuous lack of any words were starting to make Myles irritated, until he hears the same soft voice start to speak again.

“I-It’s Fluttershy”, she said quietly, hiding behind her hair.

“What was that?” he responded.

“It’s Fluttershy...” She said even quieter. Myles rolled his eyes and sat up on the edge of the bed.

“Look, I know I’m a stranger to you and all, but I promise you that I’m not gonna hurt you.” Fluttershy still looked unsure and continued to avoid eye contact with him. When she glanced back at him, she saw he was smiling. Though it was a small forced smile, maybe even a smirk; it gave her at least a little bit of promise. She took a deep breathe.

“My name is Fluttershy!” she yelled a quiet yell. Myles chuckled at the adorable sight. “Ok Fluttershy, I’m Myles. It’s nice to finally meet your acquaintance.”

“I don’t think I’ve seen anypony like you before, a-are you from Equestria? I-If you don’t mind me asking.” She asked, moving a little closer to him.

“Well, not really per say. I mean I lived in Equestria for most of my life, but I’m not really from this world.” He said removing the wires from his chest causing the heart monitor to flatline.

“That’s really fascinating! Where did you live before you came here to Fillydelphia?” She asked sitting beside him.

“Seaddle, but I don’t really talk about that.” Myles said slowly standing up.

“W-Wait! You’re still hurt, you shouldn’t be walking around!” Fluttershy said rushing to him.

“I’ve been hurt worse than this, I’ll be fine,” Myles said walking slowly towards the door. “My legs are still a little sore, but I can manage.” He thought to himself.

“A-Are you sure?” she asked.

“Don’t worry so much,” Myles said with his hand on the doorknob. “This girl really needs to relax.” He thought. Before he opened the door, he looked down realizing he’s still shirtless. Mentally facepalming himself, he turned to Fluttershy. “Hey do you know where my shirt is?” Fluttershy looked at him confused for a second, but then looked down with a look of shock slowly forming on her face.

“O-Oh g-goodness! I-I completely f-forgot that you were...oh my...” She stuttered, her face completely red. She tried to talk, but ended up getting flustered.

“If she keeps this up shes gonna have mental break down” Myles thought facepalming, “Look it’s okay I-”

“I’m so s-sorry! I wasn’t thinking any naughty thoughts or anything I-”

“FLUTTERSHY!” Myles yelled. Fluttershy fell silent. Myles shook his head and sighed. He walked over to Fluttershy and put his hand on her shoulder.

“It’s fine. Just don’t have a mental breakdown, it’s not that big a deal.” He said his tired eyes looking into hers. Fluttershy’s eyes widened slightly. She felt like he was looking right into her soul. She was frozen, she wanted to look away, but she couldn’t.

“O-Okay” she said the blush on her face slowly fading. Myles gave a half smile, and headed to the door. “W-Wait!” she said getting his attention, “You can use my sweater.”

Myles chuckled. “It’s fine Fluttershy I don’t mind-” he turned to see Fluttershy halfway through taking off her sweater. Myles panicked slightly, not knowing what to say. She was actually going to give him her sweater which would leave her just in her bra. “STOP!” he yelled, startling her. “Y-You don’t have to that really.” She released the hold on her sweater causing it to fall back into place.

“I don’t mind being shirtless, I’ll just buy another one later on. Take care, Shy,” He said walking out of the room. Once the door closed Fluttershy snapped back to reality.

“Oh Luna that was too close, I almost lost it when he walked towards me!” she said covering her face in embarrassment. “Why did he have to be shirtless and muscley!”

Myles stood outside the infirmary door, shaking his head. “That girl needs some chill time, badly” he thought letting out a sigh. As he turned to walk away, Rarity stood right behind him causing him to jump in surprise.

“Terribly sorry dear, didn’t mean to scare you,” Rarity said with a small giggle.

“It’s fine uhh, Rarity right?”

“Oh! That’s right! With all that has happened I haven’t formally introduced myself,” She said with a chuckle, “As a matter of fact, that’s why I came looking for you,” Rarity said tugging on Myles’ arm slightly. Myles looked at her confused not moving.

“Why were you looking for me exactly?” He asked.

“To meet the rest of my friends,” She said practically pulling on him. He rolled his eyes and followed Rarity.

“I see you’ve met Fluttershy,” she said walking in front of him.

“Well it took awhile for her to tell me her name,” Myles said scratching his head.

“Well she does get very shy around new ponies she meets. Which is why we don’t bring her on missions as much, but don’t let it fool you; she can be very assertive when it matters.” Rarity said, stopping in front of a door.

“Well I guess she does live up to her name a little bit.” Myles thought coming to a stop.

“Alright, so this is the kitchen where Pinkie Pie likes to be,” Rarity said pointing to the door, “She was a baker before everything happened, so she spends a lot of the day in here.” Rarity grasped the door handle. “Now I have to warn you she likes to keep it...rather toasty in here.” she warned before opening the door.

“Well that shouldn’t be much of a prob-” he was cut off when something knocked him to the floor. For a second he almost blacked out again, but quickly regained consciousness. “Welp if I didn’t have a concussion, I definitely have one now,” he thought with blurred vision. He tried to move, but something slightly heavy was hindering his movement. Myles opened his eyes to see a pair of large pink breast in an apron squished against his chest. Instantly, Myles starts to freak out.

“OOOH IS THIS THE NEW GUY RARITY?” Pinkie screamed, “HE LOOKS SO CUTE AND UNCONSCIOUS!”

“For Luna’s sake Pinkie, how many times have I told you not to do that when greeting someone,” Rarity said shaking her head.

“Awe but why Rarity, I just wanted to say hi.” Pinkie said with a whined tone. “Anyway, Hi I’m Pinkie Pie! De-Facto head chef of the Rogue Diamond, and residential super awesome party pony!” She said all in one breathe.

“Does she ever breathe?” Myles thought. “Well, nice to meet you Pinkie Pie, my names Myles. I’d shake you hand, but...you know.” he said in a slight daze. Pinkie laughed, getting closer to Myles’ face.

“Silly, here in Pinkie’s Place we don’t shake hands, we do open tongue kisses.” Myles eyes widened. Just before Pinkie went in for a kiss, Rarity pulled her off with her magic. Pinkie slightly squirmed trying to get back to the human, but to no avail.

“Awe come on Rarity” she whined.

“No, we’re not going to have a repeat of what happened with Spike,” Rarity said still holding Pinkie in the air.

“Spike...that name sounds familiar.” Myles thought.

“But spike was so tastyyyy” Pinkie pleaded.

“No buts,” Rarity said putting Pinkie on the ground, “plus I still have to introduce him to everypony else.” She helped Myles to his feet, Myles shaking his head.

“Well headaches gone, visions cleared...and making a note to stay away from this door at all cost.” He thought dusting himself off.

“Awe fine,” Pinkie pouted crossing her arms, “Catcha later Myles!” she said almost bouncing back into the kitchen. But before she closed the door, Myles noticed something strange about Pinkie.

“Is she...IS SHE NOT WEARING CLOTHES?!” He thought to himself a slight blush forming on his face. Rarity seemed to notice this and giggled closing the door. She motioned for him to follow her, snapping him back to reality.

“Was Pinkie not wearing clothes under that apron?” He asked catching up to Rarity.

“No, she doesn’t like to wear clothes under her apron. Even though I keep telling her to put on some sort of clothing, she’ll refuse and make her case on how her apron ‘is technically a piece of clothing’,” she sighs, “It’s a long argument I don’t ever want to be apart of again.” Myles chuckles, thinking about how that argument could’ve went. However he couldn’t shake what Pinkie said earlier.

“Pinkie said this was ‘The Rogue Diamond’,” He said, “Is that what this ship is called?” Rarity slowed down slightly allowing Myles to catch up to her side.

“Well...yes and no,” she started, “the Rogue Diamond is the name of our crew.” Myles raised his eyebrow slightly.

“So the other two who helped me earlier are also apart of it?” He asked.

“Why yes, they’re not only crew members, but they’re my best friends. I’ve known them for years, and then when the planet first flooded, we formed this crew to do some dangerous jobs.” She explained.

“How dangerous?” Myles asked raising an eyebrow.

“Well let’s just say there’s been more than one times where we’ve almost lost our lives,” Rarity said gritting her teeth a little bit, “More or less because of Rainbow Dash.”

“That’s the cyan pegasus correct?” Myles asked, Rarity nodded.

“She can be a bit of a hot head, but she’s a good pony once you get to know her,” Rarity said in a slightly nervous tone.

“I’ve met a lot of hot headed ponies in my life. Plus, I can be a little hot headed sometimes, so I doubt she’ll get to me,” Myles laughed. Rarity looked at him with a smug grin, a look that said ‘are you sure about that?’

“Pinkie also asked if I was the new guy...” Myles said clearing his throat, “does that also mean-”

“Why yes!” Rarity said, “You will be joining the Rogue Diamond crew, effective immediately. "

Now Myles was very confused. “But why? I don’t have any magic or wings...in fact I’m not even a pony to begin with.” He said. Rarity wasn’t fazed from his explanation, she kept walking with a slight smile on her face.

“Well even though that is true, and you basically rushed in with in with no plan. You showed that you have not only brains, but also confidence. Plus, one doesn't see race as an issue darling,” She said, “And let’s both be honest here...you weren’t sure about the plan you executed were you?” Myles stopped in his tracks. How did she know?

“She’s right. Even though it’s been years since I used any of my guard training, I wasn’t sure in the plan actually working.” He thought looking at the ground, his hands balled into fist. He was snapped out of his thought to a hand cupping his face. He looked up to see rarity with a smile on her face.

“Don’t worry dear, even if you were unsure about it, you were focused on helping us. And that’s all that matters,” She said. She did have a point. He was hesitant on putting the plan to action, but in the end, he just didn’t want to see anymore ponies get hurt.

“Come along now darling, there’s somepony who wants to meet with you.” Rarity said walking away. Myles followed confused.

“Who?” he asked scratching his head.

“Our communications officer!” she said coming to a stop next to another door. She opened the door to a set of stairs leading below the deck. They headed down the stairs, a low sound of talking slowly becoming clearer.

“I’m just sayin’ Dash, maybe next time don’t start a fight at the club over a stallion.” Applejack said to Rainbow, who was chugging a mug of cider.

“Hey, it’s not my fault that slutty ass mare was trying to get at Soarin!” Rainbow said tossing the crushed mug across the room.

“Maybe next time you should aim for the trash Rainbow.” Twilight said sitting on the couch in front of Rainbow.

“And maybe next time you should join me and AJ next time we go back to the club Twi.” Twilight blushed and fumbled with the laptop in her hand, catching it before it hit the floor.

“A-And like I said I’m perfectly fine right where I am.” Rainbow shrugged giving up on the subject entirely.

“We’re here ladies!” Rarity said walking down the final steps. The three mares turned to see Rarity, but no myles.

“Uhh, where’s the newbie?” Rainbow asked. Rarity looked confused, she turned back to see he wasn’t behind her.

“Well that’s odd, he was behind me when I-” she quickly cut off her statement when she looked up to Myles slowly walking down the steps. She giggled and walked back up to help him.

“Sorry, my legs are still sore.” He said holding on to Rarity’s arm. He walked down the steps and saw the other three mares smiling at him.

“Well look who finally woke up from his beauty rest,” Dash said flying up to him, “Did ya sleep well, sleeping beauty?”

Myles rolled his eyes, “Felt like I jumped into the fountain of youth. You should try it sometime, grumpy.”

Dash’s smirk quickly went away at his sarcastic tone, “Don’t think we’re friends newbie, I’m not gonna take anything easy on you.” She said crossing her arms.

“Don’t expect you to.” he responded vaguely.

“Dash, quit hounding the new guy.” Applejack said pulling Rainbow away by her tail. Myles shook his head. Twilight got up and made her way to Myles with a warm welcoming smile.

“You must be Myles! I’m Twilight Sparkle, I run the communications here.” she said holding her hand out. Myles face almost scrunched up from an apparent awful smell hitting his nostrils.

“N-Nice to meet you, Twilight.” He said faking a smile and shaking her hand.

“Now if you could please take a seat over there.” Twilight said walking back to the couch. The second she turned her back Myles let go of the breathe he didn’t know he was holding.

“Has she ever showered?” Myles whispered to Rarity as she was walking past him.

“Rarely, trust me you should see her room,” she whispered back with a slight giggle. Rarity patted his back and made her way to the couch next to Twilight. Myles headed to the recliner chair, in from of the couch. The second he sat down, he felt like he could fall asleep in it for hours.

“Now tell us a little about yourself Myles,” Twilight said, snapping Myles back to reality. Myles slouched in the seat and cleared his throat.

“Hm...I really don't know where to start.” he started.

“Well, start by telling us when you first showed up in Equestria.” Twilight said. Myles looked around the room once more, a look of uncertainty still in his eyes. Adjusting in his seat, he cleared his throat a second time.

“Well, I came to Equestria when I was 14, by god knows what force. Grew up generally in Canterlot under Celestia-,” Twilight seemed to flinch at the name. Her face switched from focused to slight anger, almost at a snap of a finger. Rarity, quickly noticing her friends mood change, put a hand on Twilight’s lap to calm her down. Feeling her friend's calming touch she took a deep breath, and zoned back in to what Myles was saying. “Then when I turned 16, I served on the royal guard-”

“Woah, woah, woah!” Rainbow Dash interrupted. “You were apart of Princess Celestia’s royal guard?!” The others were also surprised at his statement as well.

“Yeah, when I turned 17 she promoted me to her honor guard,” He said sitting back.

“NO WAY! SO THAT’S WHERE YOU LEARNED THOSE BADASS DODGING MOVES?!” Myles was taken aback by Rainbows sudden excitement.

“Heal Dash, Heal!” Applejack said pulling her away from Myles again. Myles regaining some of his composure continued.

“I did learn a lot of my current hand to hand combat skills from honor guard training,” Myles explained moving a dread from his face.

“Now I remember,” Rarity said, “every time we saw the princess on TV you were always right by her side.”

“Fluttershy did say that he looked familiar when we got back,” Applejack said. Myles meanwhile was blocking out what everyone was saying, as he looked down at the ground with a blank expression. Slowly the sounds around him start to fade away, as a low ringing starts to invade his ears. Flashbacks of his time as a guard start to flood back one by one.

His first day of training. The announcement of his promotion. Every excruciating memory returning to him like a massive tidal wave.

“Yeah...that was me." He started, his voice low with an unnoticeable shake, "But I only served for two years until I was 19,” that statement gained the others attention as the room fell silent again, “I...decided to leave Canterlot and...go out on my own.”

“Why did you leave? If you don’t mind me asking, you said you were living under Celestia. Why choose to leave all of that behind?” Rarity asked. After hearing the question, Myles had fell silent.

“I don’t...I don’t like to talk about it.” He said looking away, feeling tears begin to form in the corners of his eyes.

The girls looked at each other, Rainbow shrugged. The room fell silent once more, so silent you could hear the sound of the hum of the lights above them.

“W-Well, I want to talk to you about the fight with Hollow. We’ve been trying to find data on him for the past couple years and hopefully you can give us a little bit more insight on him.” Twilight said breaking the aching silence. “Rarity and Applejack told me that once they were stabbed they couldn’t move.”

Myles sat up, thinking. “Actually come to think of it,” Twilight looked up at the statement, “Even though I was sliced in the face, I couldn’t move a muscle.” Twilight with a focused look, pacing the floor trying to come up with an explanation. "I do have a feeling it's because of a spell he uses, but again it's just speculation at this point. I don't really know much about him either."

“But I’m still confused on something,” Applejack spoke up, “This is the 2nd time that a low life criminal has shown up.”

“Applejack’s right. The increased attacks from hiding criminals has grown immensely the past few weeks.” Twilight said. Rarity crossed her legs, looking up at the ceiling.

For the past 8 years, crime in Equestria has grown rapidly. Ever since Princess Luna’s disappearance, it seemed like more and more attacks have been happening across the country. Every year has been a new record for crimes committed, and more and more criminals in jail. And during those years the Rogue Diamond has been working day and night to try to figure out how criminals keep coming from the shadows.

Suddenly an alarm sounded. Surprised they all looked to see what was going on.

“There's word that a Changeling attack is happening downtown,” Twilight said rapidly typing on her laptop. A hologram map appeared in from of them, pinpointing the location of said attack.

“Any injuries reported?” Rarity asked jumping to her feet. Rainbow Dash and Applejack already rushing out of the room.

“One injured pony reported so far,” Twilight said, “Fluttershy may have to come along too.” Just as Rarity was rushing out of the room, she turned to Twilight.

“Twilight can you keep an eye on Myles while we’re gone?”

“What!?” Myles exclaimed jumping out of his seat.

“Sorry darling, but this just seems a little too dangerous right now in your current state. Just stay here and try to get some rest, we’ll talk once we get back,” she said running out and closing the door. Myles walked back to his seat and flopped down. A look of stress visible on his face as he faced the screen broadcasting the ongoing attack.

“They’ll be fine Myles, we’ve faced the Changelings before,” Twilight said not looking away from her monitor.

“I don't need to be babied. I'm not that hurt damnit, I can still fight.” He said getting up from his seat.

“The Changelings are a next level criminal organization Myles,” she said turning to the large screen, “What you faced may have been some basic level criminal. But if you were to go and face the Changelings now in your state of health, you would surely get killed.”

“You don’t understand, I-”

“No, YOU don’t understand!” Twilight said cutting off Myles, “You don’t understand how powerful these guys are Myles. We’ve been facing them for years, and not once have we been close to even slow them down! The only thing you can do is trust that they know what they’re doing.”

Myles scoffed in defeat. There was no arguing with Twilight. As much as he didn’t like sitting around watching innocent ponies get hurt, the only thing he could do was sit back and watch.

[TIME: 6:00pm, LOCATION: Downtown Fillydelphia]

“What’s the situation over there Dash,” Applejack called through her earpiece while hiding behind a knocked over table. Dash flew to the roof of a building, making sure she wasn’t seen.

“Not looking good, looks like they managed to get some hostages.” Rainbow said scanning the area.

Rarity gritted her teeth, “Then we can’t go in reckless.”

“Hey, I’m willing to go in gun blazing if you say the word,” Rainbow said.

“No! We can’t risk adding to the injuries,” Rarity said, still trying to come up with a plan.

“Well what’s the move Rarity? We stall anymore, then more ponies are gonna get hurt.” Applejack explained waiting for any notion from Rarity.

Rarity peaked from behind the alley she was hiding in, looks like there were only two changelings. They were guarding the hostages, not moving from that one spot. One of the changelings turned his head to the alley where Rarity was hiding. She quickly ducked back around the corner, hoping that he didn’t see her. The changeling smirked and walked away from his group.

“What’re you doing Lox?” The other changeling called out to him, “We’re supposed to be waiting for the guards to come.” Lox ignored him and stopped a couple yards away from the alley.

“I know you back there” he yelled into the alley, his raspy voice echoing from wall to wall in the tight alley, “You should just come out now and join the rest of them...” he raised his arm, a powerful blast charging from his hand. “Because it’ll be a shame if we had to have our first casualty.” Rarity, in as many situations they have been in throughout the years, was admittedly scared. His voice seemingly causing her to freeze in fear. Lox took slow steps towards the alley, each step causing Rarity to wince harder in fear, so much so that she nearly vomited. He took one more step stopping mere feet from Rarity. “Well I warned ya.”

Just before he attacked, Rainbow zipped down from her spot on the roof and landed in front of Lox.

“Not another step!” She yelled. Lox was a little startled, but regained his smirk.

“Heh, it was about time someone showed up,” He said.

“How else were you expecting?” Rainbow asked.

“Well I was expecting those weak ass guards ponies to come here, but hey...” Lox said taking a step back, “I guess I can make an exception. Maybe things can get a little more interesting.” He put his hand in his pocket, but before he could move any further, Rainbow pointed her gun at his face.

“Don’t even think about making a move bub, the only thing I find interesting right now is putting a bullet in your head!” she yelled. Lox smirked.

“Oh yea? With what gun?” He asked. Rainbow looked confused. She looked at her hand, to find that her gun wasn’t in her hand. She pulled her arm back and looked at her hand in absolute shock.

“You shouldn’t of blinked,” Lox said. Rainbow looked at him to find her gun was now in the palm of his hand. “It made it too easy to snatch this from you.”

“What the hell? How was he quick enough to take my gun?” Rainbow thought.

Lox chuckled slightly. “This is nice one, I just might keep it.” he said examining the gun. Rainbow gritted her teeth. “Well now that’s out the way, let’s get this over with.” He said tossing the gun behind him. In a blink of an eye, Lox fired an attack towards Rainbow; leaving a good hole in the building. As the smoke cleared, Rainbow was no longer there. Lox satisfied began walking back, until he was hit in the head.

“OW! WHO THE HEL-” He cut himself of in surprise, seeing Rainbow standing without a scratch.

“You may have taken my gun, but you forgot that I’m the fastest pony alive!” she yelled, a look of intense anger on her face. Lox stood surprised that someone was able to avoid his attack so easily.

“Well, I surely wasn’t expecting that,” he said rubbing his head, “well since you’re not going to hold back..” he changes his stance, a blue-green fire flowing from his hands, “I guess I shouldn’t either.”

“Bring it on!” Rainbow rushes at Lox full of anger.

“Dash No!” Applejack yells coming from behind her hiding spot.

“Well then, I guess we can add another hostage to bring back,” the second changeling said.

“Sorry to soil your fun partner, but I don’t go down easy,” without saying a word the changeling fired a net from his gun. Applejack was ready to dodge the net, but as she tried to move out of the way, she found that she couldn’t move. She looked down to see her feet stuck in a green goo. As the net got closer she flinched bracing for the final moment. But the net never came. She opened her eyes to see the net hovering in mid air. Both Applejack and the Changeling look in shock and surprise as the net fell lifelessly to the ground. Applejack looked to her right to see Rarity out of breathe, sparks of magic flying from her horn.

“Good one, Rarity!” Applejack said. Rarity nods with a smile. The changeling however pulls out his gun and takes his aim at Applejack. Seeing this, Rarity’s smile quickly goes away.

“Applejack, Look out!” she yells, Applejack turns to hear the gun fire. Thankfully, she dodges just in time. Anger starting to surge through her veins, her head quickly snaps towards the gunman.

“Alright then, you wanna play like that huh?” Applejack said with a twitch in her eye. As she turns her body towards him, she starts cracking her knuckles with a menacing chuckle. Slowly, Applejack starts to walk towards him, her hat covering her eyes. Stopping a few feet in front of the changeling, she tips up her hat to reveal a crooked expression. One fueled with anger and rage. With a glow in her eyes and a jagged smile, two stern words were enough to make her intentions known, “lets dance.”

Back at the ship, Twilight monitors their fight on the screen; Myles watching restlessly, pacing back and forth. Twilight trying her best to focus on the situation, becomes annoyed with Myles’ pacing.

“Myles, is there something on your mind?” she asked not looking away from the screen.

“Why do you think I'm pacing.” he replies stopping in his tracks. Twilight didn’t reply to his sarcasm, only because she was glad that he finally stopped moving around.

“If you had a problem with me moving around, you should’ve just said so,” Myles said walking towards her.

“Well I didn’t want to be rude Myles, but the pacing was getting kind of distracting” Twilight said with a nervous smile.

As Myles approached the screen, he watched the other three fight the two changelings, and they did seem to be handling things quite well. Fluttershy was taking care of the injured pony away from the site, and Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash seemed to be holding their own. The anxious feeling in his stomach started to die down, and slowly he started to relax a little bit. He started to back away from the screen, when something quickly rushed within the shadows of the alleys. Myles catching it, stiffened up.

“What was that?” he thought walking back to the screen. He scanned the area once more, and noticed another shadow wandering a different alley. “There’s no way-” his thought was cut off after seeing a figure stand in the alley near Applejack and Rarity. Even though the picture was unclear, there was no doubt that someone was sneaking around.

Adrenaline flowed through his blood, as his mind stuck on one option and one option only...finding whoever that figure is, but he couldn’t do that with Twilight supposedly watching over him. He backed away and looked at Twilight. She looked focused, calling out movements to the others over her mic. Making sure Twilight couldn't hear him, Myles quickly rushed out the door, making sure Twilight didn’t hear him. In a single motion, he hopped off the deck, and made his way downtown. He didn’t care if he wasn’t supposed to be out, he had his own mission.

The battle was reaching a close. With the one changeling being knocked unconscious, and now their attention was on Lox. Rainbow was injured from her intense battle. Her hand and wrist slightly burned, claw like wounds on her shoulders and legs, and a few bruises here and there. She was beaten up, but she could stand, and she made it very clear that she wasn’t going down anytime soon. Lox on the other hand looked as if he’d barely broke a sweat. A few bruises and some blood drawn, but he was still holding strong.

“Well, I must say you ladies are stronger than I thought,” he said, “especially you rainbow girl, you don’t go down easy.”

“Heh, took you awhile to notice,” Rainbow managed to get out in between breaths.

“But now you’re finished,” Applejack said pointing her gun at him. Lox just laughed and shook his head.

“Ending it so soon? Fine. But I just have to ask something,” he said.

The girls looked at each other confused. “Word on the street is, you got a new recruit...Myles I think his name is.” A feeling of shock washed over the group, as they looked at one another with wide eyes.

“W-What do want with him?” Applejack said walking forward, gun still pointed at him.

“Well, boss did give some intel on him. He sounds like a cool guy, maybe he should be apart of the Changelings.” Lox said, walking forward with a smirk unfazed at the weapon pointed at his head.

“You’re not going to do anything with him!” Rarity yelled. Lox once again laughed.

“Well, something tells me he’s around here, maybe I go should find him,” Lox said walking away. Rainbow quickly tossed a rock in his direction, hitting him in head. Lox with a low chuckle turned around rubbing his head.

“Okay, I guess we’re not done here,” He said cracking his knuckles with a growl.

Meanwhile, Myles quickly made his way down the alleys, the sounds of gunshots and magic filling the air. He went through multiple twist and turns, trying to find the mysterious figure he seen just moments ago. With no luck in his search, he stopped and looked around out of breath thinking of where the figure could've gone. Then he feels a rush of air to his left. His head snaps to see a shadow duck down the alleyway, and with no hesitation he quickly rushed after it. After another minute of chasing the anonymous thing, he stopped in the middle looking around confused.

“I swear I saw something go down here.” he thought. Almost immediately, his thought was cut off by a green light and fog growing closer behind him. The feeling of the air starting to get heavy caught him by surprise, as he coughed the feeling becoming more and more difficult to breathe the air around him. In a slight daze, he turned to see a figure starting to emerge from the fog. Myles took stance immediately, just in case he needs to fight. With every second that past, the figure became more and more clearer. A tall, curvy mare with a black dress emerged, her hair a gross moss blue, and a crooked horn.

“Chrysalis.” Myles said a stern voice.

“My my, if it isn’t the former honor guard himself,” she said, “hm, it's weird. You’re a lot taller the last time I saw you. But then again it has been a couple years.” she walked up to him almost face to face, if not an inch lower.

“The hell are you sneaking around for?” Myles asked, with no indication of letting his guard down, “Unless you're here for a fight.”

Chrysalis chuckled, “To see the fireworks of course. Seems like these two morons have some work to do.” she stepped closer to him with a seductive smile. “Buuut, maybe you can help them, I’ve seen how you fought against Hollow Shade. Maybe you could...” she gently touching his cheek, “teach me some moves.”

Myles smacked her hand away, giving her a hard stare, “You can forget it, I told you before, I’m not joining your nasty bug squad.”

Chrysalis didn’t lose her smile from his words, “Oooh she WAS right, you are a feisty one.” In a blink of an eye, she felt a puff of air fly past her left cheek. She looked to see a small knife near her face, her brow furred, eyes wide.

“And I won’t hesitate to kick your ass,” Myles said not losing the calm venom in his voice.

They stared at each other for a moment, Myles more intense than Chrysalis. She chuckled and turned her back.

“Hm, fine. I have to get these two morons out of here anyway,” she said walking away. “It’s a shame that you joined the... Ugh diamonds, you still would’ve made a great guard if you would’ve stayed.”

“You know damn well why I left, I’m not going back to that life!” Myles shouted at her.

“Suit yourself,” Chrysalis said looking over her shoulder in a sultry tone, “I’ll be sure to tell her you said hi though.”

“Go to hell!” Myles spat angrily. Chrysalis, with one last evil smile, snapped of her finger and disappeared in black smoke. Myles started to shake with anger from recalling her words. How she mocked him about his past, and bringing up...her. The feeling of rage starting to overflow, until suddenly he snapped kicking and punch a nearby garbage can. He blacked out with every hit he connected, as the same memories from his past replayed over...and over...and over. Until finally...he snapped back to reality. He stared at the heavily dented trash can, covered with blood where the hits were landed. With heavy breath he looked at his hands, his knuckles gashed open from the cut metal as blood covered almost his entire hand. As blood dripped off his hands, Myles tried to process what he did. He looked over at the giant black smoke cloud Chrysalis escaped from. Thoughts running through his head of what could happen in the next few moments. Maybe another changeling could pop out of there and try to kill him, who knows. What he did know, was that he couldn't stay there any minute longer. With a final deep breath, Myles stood to his feet and began to make his way back to the ship.

Lox and the girls looked at the smoke that flowed from the top of the building behind them. Lox, with a smile turned to them. “Welp it’s been fun, but it’s time for me to go now. See ya.”

“Oh no you don’t!” Rainbow yelled rushing him, but she wasn’t able to get him in time, as he disappeared in the same black smoke.

“Ngh, Where’d he go?” Rainbow said with gritted teeth. She was preparing to fly off to find Lox, but before she was able to do so, Applejack grabbed her tail.

“He’s gone RD, from the looks of it so is his friend.” she said. Looking over, she was right. The other changeling that was knocked out had also disappeared.

“I wasn’t done with him yet!” Rainbow exclaimed, pacing around in irritation.

“Let it go Rainbow, don’t go doin’ something dumb now,” Applejack said still trying to calm her down. Seeing that it was now close to impossible to calm Rainbow down, she turned to Rarity, who seemed to be standing there with wide eyes, almost as if she were deep in thought.

“Everything alright Rarity?” Applejack asked. Rarity snapped out of her trance.

“Oh uh y-yes. I was just thinking about something,” She replied, a little flustered.

“Well, seems like the Changelings are long gone now, we should head back to the ship. We really need to talk about whatever the hell just happened today.” Applejack said. Rarity looked to the sky. Particles of the smoke were still lingering. To her it didn’t make sense on how he knew to retreat. She blinked a couple times before she answered.

“Y-Yes we should head back.”