The Unknown waited silently in their hideout for the Shadow to arrive. In a separate room they had a bound and gagged purple filly with a suppressor ring on her horn to keep her from using her magic. They were here to meet Shadow o go over the details of what the next step in the plan was. The city would soon be in an uproar as soon as the family of Twilight woke up and found the filly missing and went to the princess, so they needed to act fast.

"Is she awake?" come a multitoned voice in form a pony clad in al black that entered the sanctum. The Unknown bowed in respect to the head of the Council, The Shadow.

"Yes Shadow but we have her bound gagged and her eyes covered," one of the Unknown answered. "We also have on of the high output suppressor rings on her horn to keep her from using her magic to try and escape."

"Good," Shadow remarked with a harsh tone. "Come and bring the filly. The client wishes to inspect his property to authenticate it and make sure it is not damaged."

"Yes Shadow," tow of the Unknown bowed and went to retrieve Twilight Sparkle.

Levi walked briskly through Canterlot unnoticed. The ponies were in a bit of panic with the guards being out in force and questioning ponies on the spot. Levi was making his way to the The Punching Bag bar in downtown. He need to gear up and that was also where he'd find his right hand pony, his granddaughter Strawberry Marmalade.

A large green bullfrog watched the human from a far and on a hunch, he quietly hopped after the human.

Upon coming to the bar he immediately entered it. Punch heard the commotion form his office as he'd been counting his safe down when Levi threw the doors opened. Thus, the owner pulled a blunder bust out her kept hidden under his desk and cocked it.

"Alright, who's got the balls ta break inta my place?" Strawberry Punch marled out. What he saw nice caused him to freak-out a bit. "Grandmaster Ackerman, I'm so sorry. Ah what can I do for ya?"

"Get to the base now and alert every single Corps member telling them to rally in the nearest safe house/base the to them. Make sure the message is sent through whole city all at once to," Levi demanded as he walked to the back. "Connected me to ever last safe house here via the crystal pictograph."

"Everyone?" Punch's eyebrows raised.

Levi pulled off his mask and looked at his family member with a stern glare, "Everypony is to report in Strawberry Punch. This concerns a little filly and personal student of the princess and the Unknown."

Punch's eyes widen and then her scowled and threw his hoof in front of his chest. "It shall be Grandmaster." He turned.

"Where is Marmy?" Levi asked.

"Go to the barracks part of the house. All the way down to the right," Punch explained and Levi nodded while the stallion got to the work he was order to do.

Meanwhile the green bullfrog hopped into the door way of the bar casting a shadow in the empty establishment and let out a long croak as its eyes darted around the empty bar, 'Something's happen to Twilight, well I'm not just gonna sit on my lily pad and do nothin! But it looks like I best stick with humy" It hopped after Levi once again.

Levi walked into Marmy's room and found his granddaughter in a deep sleep with a bit of a smile on her face. He reached down slowly and placed a hand on her. The instant her did there was a knife at his throat. Mary looked and turned on the light then quickly withdrew her blade from her grandfather's throat.

"Nice mask," Marmy noted. "I take that the princess wasn't able to fix the other one then?"

Levi smirked as he removed the mask from his face, "This is the same mask. She used a transfiguration spell and added some new material. Downside was it had to be remodeled but I like it."

"Grandfather, why are you here?" Marmy looked at Levi with a cautious gaze.

Though he was happy to see his granddaughter, Levi dropped the façade, "I'm calling all Survey members to action effective immediately," Levi said with cold tone as he pulled the bag from his coat and showed it to Marmy, symbol in her face. "They've taken Celestia's student. Why? I don't know there was no note left. They were most likely paid to do so by a noble with extremely deep pokets to the point they think themselves out of reach."

"But we operate by a different set of laws," Marmy noted as she readied herself.

"Normally yes but Celestia has given us the full run to do whatever we can to get her student back," Levi explained as they duo left the room. "I already told her the details about the Unknown and us before that and she had already said we do what we need to. Now, we’re cleared to move in force."

They came to new much more room with a large spell circle carved into the floor. Levi took a golden pin from a case he'd had in his pocket and pricked his finger. Next, he held his finger over the circle and let a few drops of his blood fall into the circle before pulled his hand back as the circle stood to glow a bright red and in a red flash a chest appeared in the middle of the circle. Marmy started to stepped forward but Levi stopped her and shook his head. Once the circle's glow stopped then Levi let Marmy go and fetch the chest to bring to him.

Just as Marmy set the chest in front of her grandfather Strawberry Punch walked into the room in his uniform but his wasn't adorned with the white and blue crossed wings but two roses sitting on opposite sides of each other with the right setting above the other. The emblem of the Garrison Corps, the overseers and the members of the safe houses and bases.

"Grandmaster," Punch kept saluting. "Everypony had gathered and is waiting your transmission."

"Good," Levi said opening the chest. "I will be with them shortly. I most gear up first," He said reaching in.

Levi stood in front of a crystal projector broadcasting himself to all the barracks safehouses though out Canterlot. All eyes were on the patriarch of the Strawberry family and Grandmaster of the Survey Corps. In total there were over two hundred ponies watching him, this included the Garrison Corps and others. The active Survey Corps members number to just a hundred meaning twenty per safe house.

"My little ponies," Levi said through his refurbished mask. "We have been tasked by the princess to hunt down and take out the group calling themselves the Unknown, the very group that dear kill one of our own and take their crest from their uniform. I goal is to wipe out this organization in its entirety," he threw his arm out. "Though our main goal is the safe return of a little filly they have dared to take. Her name is Twilight Sparkle. She is the Princess's personal student. Her family begged me for her safe return and I will still for no less than that. Now go and and look everywhere and take out this group! NO MERCY!"

"NO MERCY!" The ponies all yelled in unison before saluting Levi and then departing with their masks on.

The projector turned off and Levi headed out and was in the main bar when they heard a loud bullfrog croak. He looked over to the big green bullfrog sitting on a table staring right at him. He approached the frog with Marmy at his side.

"Is this thing something of yours?" he asked his granddaughter.

"No, but I do have a good idea of what he could be," she looked ta the frog. "If you are Michigan, I need you to prove it. We need you to sing and dance."

The frog croaked, 'Okay,' He then proceeds to sing and dance a bit .

"That proves it what exactly?" Levi looked at Marmy sternly.

"That this is Michigan. This is Twilight Sparkle's familiar," Marmy points at the frog. "He is naturally drawn to Twilight through their shared bond through her magic."

"So, we can use him to find our little filly," Levi rubbed his chin. "Will you help use?" he looked at the frog who then jumped onto Levi's shoulder. "I'll take that as a yes. Come Marmy," They left, their cloaks blowing behind them.

Meanwhile in Canterlot Castle throne room...

Twilight Velvet was busy sniffling. Her eyes were all red and puffing from the crying she'd been do none stop since they'd found her little filly missing this morning. Her husband Night Light was sitting next to his wife and held her close with both of his forelegs wrapped around Twilight. Shining Armor was busy pacing back and forth up and down the room. Cadence was sitting not far away from him taking care of Spike. Celestia was busy trying to speak with the guards about any leads only to be met with fruitless endeavors.

"I don't get it!" Celestia threw the papers she had in her grip up. "How in all of Tartarus has an organization like this existed without my knowledge till now. There is no telling how far up the have their roots," She slammed a hoof down cracking the marble floor slab.

Everyone winced back a bit.

"Auntie," Cadence scolded the older alicorn. "I know you're upset about this," She levitates Spike onto her back a she walked over and looked up to her aunt. "Everypony is on edge here and worried about Twilight's Safety but you need to keep your composure. For all we know this is what whoever is behind this wants."

Spike looked at his mother and raised his claws to her. Celestia smiled, "Come here my little firecracker," She took the little drake and snuggled him causing him to giggle and then she looked at the Twilight family and back to Spike. Celestia steeled her resolve and walked over to the ponies and sat in front of them. "I am sorry for my outburst. Trust me when I say this is not in better hooves if not hands."

"Hands Princess?" Shining Armor raised an eyebrow. "My sister is missing and you're making a joke about body parts!"

"Shiny you need to-" Cadence tried to comfort the young stallion.

"No Cadence this is my little sister we're talking about!" Shining fumed. "And her teacher is making jokes about it!"

Spike started to cry and Celestia did her best to comfort her son. "There, there Spike don't cry."

Twilight Velvet saw this and walked up to Celestia, "Shining Armor stop that right now. The Princess is doing all she can," She scolded her son. "Can't you see she's just as upset as we are, even more so that she has things going on behind her back."

Shining looked down, "I'm sorry."

"It was not a joke," Celestia said confidentially. "When Levi says he's going to do something he does it. I once saw him argue with a brick wall until it broke." Everypony tilted their heads. "True story, though in the end he did still win the debate with a sledgehammer," She smiled and looked to Velvet. "Would you like to hold him?" She held up Spike in her hooves to he little grayish purple unicorn.

"If that's alright with you Princess," Twilight acknowledged hesitantly.

"Certainly," Celestia smiles levitating the little whelpling over.

Velvet cautiously took the little drake in her hooves as he sniffled still shaken from Shining's outburst, "Aren't you a cutie," She smiled as she nuzzles Spike. "I'm sorry we haven't been around much to help with him."

"It's quite alright Velvet and he is quite the hoof full after all," Celestia reached up and brushed her hoof down Spike's head.

"Princess," Night light finally spoke up. "That creature that was in the dining hall before. What and who was it?"

"That was Levi Ackerman, the only known human on this world," Celestia explains. "He is a n old and very dear friend who I had the pleasure of meeting some forty years ago. Originally, he was hired as my bodyguard and once his job was done he planned to leave but managed to coax him into stay with us for a time. He all with former Cpt. Tightship trained my best guard unit, the sevenhundreth and seventy-seventh. I originally wanted to bring him here as an instructor for the academy, but he refused."

She turns the Sparkle family, "Trust me when I say he will bring Twilight back to us."

"Your Highness," a voice was heard. Celesta turned to see one of the Survey Corps standing behind her and they saluted and then bowed before standing again. "I am here to give you and update. The Grandmaster and his second-in-command are on the trail of the Unknown. They and the remaining members of the Survey Corps have found and entered a network of tunnels under the city itself with the help of the familiar of Twilight Sparkle known as Michigan. I am to remain at your side as updates come in."

"Thank you very much," Celestia nods, "Cpt. Light Heart." She called out and a reddish orange pegasus stallion with a white and pike swirl mane with a light house cutie mark came into the room. "Be prepared to move at a moment’s notice." The stallion nods and then goes back to his post.

"Ma'am, who is that cloaked masked pony and how did they get in here?" Light heart asked suspiciously.

"He is a member of the Survey Corps and our line to those trailing the foalnappers," Celestia explains.

"Really, because he looks an awful lot like somepony who should be in custody," Light Heart waved her hoof summoning guards.

Celestia didn't have the patience for this at all and the room's air starts to heat up. "I will not be questioned Captain. This pony is here on orders from a very dear and old friend of mine who is currently tracking down Twilight Sparkle!" She raised her voice glaring down. "I will not waste the few guards we have on this wild goose chase you're starting. Even if you had an entire platoon try, they'd still end up bloody, bruised, and or unconscious. NOW CARRY OUT MY ORDERS OR RESIGN YOUR POSTION!"

"YES MA'AM!" Light Heart shouts before speeding off.

"I have a missing filly and all they want to do is point hooves at the nearest creature," Celestia rolls her eyes before looking the new pony who looked like they had a message. "News," they nod. "Then speak."

"The grandmaster and our Corps members have engaged the enemy forced in what appear to be old passageways under the city," they explained. "No words about lady Twilight."

"How does he know that?" Shining asked "He hasn't left the room to speak with anypony!"

"The would be his enchanted gear my boy," Former Cpt. Tightship trotted in with a few members of the Garrison Corps. "They told me everything Celestia. How can I help?"

"Do whatever you think is right Tightship. I've already told Levi he and his forces have free reign," Celestia said sternly. "You're the only officer who currently has had dealings with Levi and his methods in the city that is still a semi-active part of the Military so therefore I am temporarily calling you back into service."

"Thank you," He bowed. and then turned to the Sparkles. "I have known Levi just as long as the princess and served alongside him. He will bring our girl back to us."

The Survey member trotted up and saluted. "The enter the caverns under the city. The Garrison Corps will take you their Captain. It's an honor to meet you in the flesh sir the grandmaster has always spoken highly of you."

"I hoped he would," Tightship cracked a light smile before turned around to the Garrison ponies. "Take me to the entry point."

They nodded and then led the way.

Levi and Marmy slowly tracked through the caverns and tunnels underneath Canterlot. The carefully followed the path set before them along with several of their family slash corps members. Each time there was a new fork or multiple paths the referred to Michigan who would hop off Levi's shoulder and heads towards the path were he felt the strongest pull towards Twilight.

All along the way the left a trail of the bodies of any Unknown they encountered.

They suddenly stopped when Levi felt a presence from around the corner. Ordering the other to remain he crept over with Marmy and spied two masked ponies around the corner in a large open chamber. They were guarding a door. This was bad, for the Unknown

Levi mad signals with his hands and the Survey corps nodded and readied their magic gear. Levi did the same and pulled one of his own weapons off his hip one at a time and snapped a cartridge into their hilt handles. He clicked the hammers as his weapons charged.

He rushed the Unknown guards throwing them for a loop. He branshished his weapons, twin magic pistols with collapsible blades.

The guards turned but Levi quickly paralyzed them by shooting them with two bolts of lightning magic from his pistols. He threw his right fist forward sand a line shot from it into the wall in front of him. He quickly zoomed across the room and in and another the blade of his pistols came together.

In the next moment he spun and all that could hear was a quick shink, a couple of thuds, and then a spraying sound as blood spewed from the bodies of headless ponies

"Search the bodies for anything that may be useful," Levi orders as he Crops came up while he whips his swords off to the side thawing the blood off them. They nod and with out batting and eyelash searched the dead ponies.

"Nothing and it seems the door is enchanted to only open for members via a blood pact," Marmy said after examining the door. "But if we're right Twilight is ahead and this is the main base. Perhaps I could fool it somehow with their blood if I rolled in it."

"Move," Levi said coldly as he changed his weapons back to pistol mode. "I'm going to blow it open and once I do Everypony rushes in, No mercy."

They all nod.

On the other side of the door...

"Any word from the financer?' One Unknown asked another only to be answered with a head shake.

"Sadly, things appeared to have heated up more than we'd originally planned," another said.

"What do you mean?" the first turned. "We knew the guards would be called in, but they should."

"The entire city is crawling with Guards. Even the former captain Tightship came in."

"Something isn't right," another rubs his chin. "They should've been busy investigating the Spark house."

"You don't suppose somepony saw you two?" The first looked at the foalnappers.

"No," the both said with certainty. "We made sure to follow the Shadow's order to the letter."

"I think we should leave," came a voice.

"Are you crazy! We can't move with this much heat!"

"Yes we're better off waiting here. No pony knows these tunnels but the Unknown. No creature could navigate them without use and even then, there are the traps."

Suddenly a pony in black armor walks through an adjoining hallway, "We must move now," the Shadow remarks. "The buyer wants his prize and we need to move before to much attention is called to the Sparkles." He looked to the foalnappers. "To much activity to move in the usual tunnels. We should move through the-"

*BOOM! *

The door was blown off its hinges and sent spinning like a saw across the room. In the process it decapitates one of the foalnappers, more like toe through their neck and flung the head in the corner. Everypony turned to looked at smoke and dust filled the room.

*CLICK*

*CLACK*

*CLICK*

*CLACK*

*CLICK *

*CLACK*

The heavy steps of some creature filled the room. A tall figure that toward over all the ponies in the room emerges from the dust with a bone whiter face adorned with symmetrical cracks. What little light was in the room reflected from in the creature's eye with a glint of red.

"W-what is that?" one of the Unknown whimpers.

Another looked closer and saw the emblem on the creature's torso, "The Survey Corps," they said with distain as serval more figures appeared from behind the tall creature to revel several cloaked masked ponies.

"No mercy," the tall one hissed.

They wasted no time and started to fight with the unknown forces. it was more of a one sided slaughter fest as the Survey Corps whizzed about with the gear easily avoided the Unknowns' attacks.

Levi wasted no time dodged and zipping about. He'd paralyze some of his victims and then stabbed or shred them, others he would just shredded. He mercilessly slaughtered Unknown after Unknown but never came across the one he wanted, the Shadow.

"Where are you?" he hissed as he looked around. Suddenly a blast of magic came at Levi, but it was actually aimed not at him but at his second-in-command. "No!" He hit a switch in his controls shooting a lining across the room. He zipped across in front of Marmy barely catching the blast with his free hand.

He hit the ground wincing as he felt siring pain in the upper part of his right hand. He looked down at his hand and his pointer and middle finger were completely gone. Not even stubs were left on blackened smoking flesh. Levi grit his teeth and quickly tore off a piece of his sleeve and used it to wrap his injured hand. He looked in the direction the blast came from and noticed a steadily swinging door.

He was on his feet in no time flat and gave chase. Levi burst through the door and scowled looking around her found more passageways. He listened carefully the enchantments on his mask activating to allow him to hear the slightest movements. he quickly picked up and galloping hooves on flagstone.

He quickly came into a spacious cavern. Then he saw a black armored pony daring across a raven jumping from platform to platform. There on their back a wriggling bag with muffled screams and cries for help coming from it at the pony gallops away.

"I won't let you escape!" Levi howled as he shot a line into the cavern ceiling. "She will go back to her family!"

Shadow looked back intrigued. They had heard all the old legends of this creature. A great killer of old that once left scores of bodies in their wake across countless battlefields. The monster killing mounter passed down in legends across the contents and seas outside the lands of ponies. The one thing that even dragons feared and checked for under their beds at night as even adults.

"The Butcher!" The Shadow smiled as they tossed the filly in the bag off to the side. "I have heard of you and always wanted to meet he legend of the battlefield."

Levi land with a hard thud kick up a cloud of dust around him as he raises to his full height looming over the pony. He glares down with rage, killing intent and bloodlust radiating from every pour and fiber of his being.

Shadblow looked at the blood dripping from the blades of the the Butcher, "Beautiful absolutely beautiful!" they gushed as Levi steadily walks over. "I have wait so long to-"

They didn't even get the chance to finish that statement as Levi had transforms his left blade into gun form and shot a bolt of magic through the pony’s leg front two legs causing them to collapse. Before they could even cry out in pain Levi shot a zip line around their neck and pulled them to his right hand. The Butcher's hand now around the pony's throat squeezed hard enough to keep them from screaming but light enough to speak.

Levi pulls off his mask with his free hand to reveal and thoroughly pissed off human. If light would show in his eye s it would have reflected burning red.

"What is the name of the one who hired you?" Levi seethed through his teeth "TALK!"

The pony gulped hard, "If I tell you, will you let me live?" they wheezed out.

"Depends on what you say in the next ten seconds," Levi scowls, "10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4...," He starts to raise his pistol, "3... 2..."

"MORNING GLORYIT WAS COUNTESS MORNING GLORY!" The shadow yells. "She wanted the filly to brainwash her into being her puppet!"

"1" wall all Levi said. "This is for my family..." he coldly glared.

"But!"

*SHINK!*

The blade on Levi's weapon extended upward straight throw the bottom of the pony's head poking straight through to the ceiling of the cave, killing them very slowly. Levi watched the pony gargle and suffocate on their own blood as the slowly died in his grip. One he knew they were dead Levi removes his baled and then chopped off the head of the Shadow dropped the lifeless body over the edge and kicked the off to the other side.

Levi made his way over to the bag that still held a whimpering filly. He knelt as to scare the child as little as possible quickly sliced through the knot. Removing the bag, he found the whimpering exhausted dirty from of Twilight Sparkle.

"Please," She cries. "I want be bad, I just wanna go home to my mommy, daddy, and Shiny!"

"Shhhh.... It's alright little one. You must be Twilight. Princess Celestia told me about you in her letters" Levi softly smiles.

"Y-you know the p-princess"

"She is a very dear and old friend of mine," He says as he reaches behind him slowly and pulls out a big green bullfrog. "I believe this is yours..." he hold out the frog who is instantly scooped up by the filly.

"Michigan!" she nuzzled the frog.

"He's a good frog. He helped me find you Twilight," Levi sits across from the filly and her frog. "I'm here to take you home," he softly says holding out his hand. "They're very worried about you. Shall we go?"

Twilight's limp quiver and she then slammed into he humans chest and balled her eye out.

"Shhh... they can't hurt you anymore," he says stand, "Now lets go... Just don't look down, okay"

She nods as Michigan hops on Levi shoulder and lets out a croak, 'Thank you.'

Back in the Throne Room...

A low marching was heard off in the distance and it steadily grew louder.

"GET YOUR LOUSY FLANKS OU TOF HE WAY!" order Former Captain Tightship. "CAN YOU SEE WE ARE GOING TO SEE THE PRINCESS!"

The marching grew louder still and suddenly stops as the throne room door were flung open. Standing there was in front of a small army of ponies was Levi, a little worse for wear but that's not what caught everyponies' attention. It was who he had in his arms, Twilight Sparkle.

"TWILLY!" The Sparkle family and Cadence yelled as they rushed forward.

"MOMMY! DADDY! SHINY! CADY!" Twilight hollered and jumps down and slammed into the others in a group hug.

"Oh Twilight," Celestia said coming over with Spike. She sat down and wrapped her wings around the whole group and nuzzle her student. "I was so worried," she says as tears rolled down her cheeks. "She then looks to Levi, "Cadence, take Spike from me for a moment, please."

"Sure Aunty," Cadence says in-between sniffles taking the little drake.

Celestia then walks over to Levi and stands in front of the sellsword as she once had so long ago , "Thank you for returning my student to my, the filly to her family and for returning to us safely," She says as she extends her wings and bows her head shocking every pony there to see but the Corps and Tightship. "Please name you reward; I will give you anything within my power."

Levi takes a knee raises Celestia head so her eyes will meet his, "The only thing I want Tia... is to be your friend as I have always been..." He smiles as the sun shines into the room behind him.

Author's Note

Been a bit since I updated this one but here it is I know a lot of you have been want a conclusion for this will here it is. Enjoy and be sure to check out my other works two!

Ghost Alvasa OUT!_!