Once A Shadow - From the other side

Act I: The Only Easy Day Was Yesteryday

I woke up, half asleep, with half a mind not to do anything today. but unfortunately, that wasn’t going to happen. I had to go report to Spitfire, Captain of the wonderbolts, and my superior. I headed off to the Wonderbolts HQ, wondering what would happen if I was late. Last person who was late to one the Fugiens Mones’ meetings was forced to do two hundred pushups, with a BOULDER on top of them. Don’t know bout you, but that would probably hurt. A lot. Anyway, I get there and take the secret entrance to the hideout. Looks like I was just in time.

Spitfire called me over”Hey, over here! we’re starting in five minutes!”

“Okay”

No less than a minute after the meeting, spitfire called me over to talk to her privately.

“You wanted to talk to me Spitz?” I asked her unnervingly.

She replied with a stern look. “One, yes, two, I told to stop calling me spitz!”

“Sorry, sir.”

“That’s better. Now, I have a situation I would like you to handle. You’re in the Recon Squad, so this should be relatively easy. We’ve received word from Night Wing that another one of your kind has arrived in Equestria.”

“where?” I replied inquisitively.

“Ponyville, to be precise, he crashed into the library from a height of about sixty thousand feet.”

“ouch.”

“I want you to keep an eye on him for a while, see if he can be worthy of joining us. If he is, I want you to report this to Night Wing, If he isn’t, then leave him be and go about your normal duties. Any questions?”

“Yea, should I try to find out anything about him?”

“Hmm, I’ll leave that to your discretion, just do your job, and get it right. I don’t want a repeat incident of what happened last time this happened.”

“ but that was an accident, I didn’t know that changeling was listening! Besides, I took care of it.”

Which nearly cost you your life, AND our secret.”

“I understand,” I replied grimly “I’ll try and be discreet.”

“very good, dismissed.”

Jeez, that went well, that’ll teach me to be anything but professional, especially with her. That reminds me, my official initiation begins in about a week or two. I wonder what that potion tastes like? Ah never mind. I’ve gotta focus.

I flew off in the direction of Ponyville, and it didn’t take me long to get there. when I arrived the town was about as cheery as it should be (which in my opinion is a little too cheery; it almost borders on creepy). since I was known in the town it didn’t take me long to find out about the new pony (guy) in town. His name was Shadow Flash, although that isn’t his real one. he shouldn’t be too hard to spot, considering he has no cutie mark. Luckily for me I found mine, training with the Equestrian Guard. After about ten minutes of searching I found him, working in a bar called The Silver Thunder. I sat down, ordered a drink and noticed that something bad was about to happen. About thirty seconds later, it happened. A local roughneck decided to be a tough guy and slapped a mare across the face. I was just about to get up and beat the guy when suddenly one of the ponies there, a unicorn, stood up and said:

_"Yeah, that's not happening, know why? Because-" and just like that, he gave the huge buck a sucker punch! -Chapter 4 -_

After a minute I heard a slight conversation between the two.

_"So, what's you're name?" I asked
"Mint Barry." He said, after thinking for a moment.
"HAHAHAHAHA! That's fucking hilarious!" I yelled while rolling on the ground
"Oh shut up, I bet your name isn't any better." he said
"It's a hell of a lot cooler than your's bro, it's Shadow Flash."
"Wow, you have a jet black mane, and you're a pegasus, who would have thought. I only knew one other person with the last name Flash, and he was probably just as stupid as you."
"Wait, did you just say person?" I said, the gears in my head started shaking off the cobwebs and turning.
"Uh, you must be mistaken, I said pony." he stammered
"No, you said person, and how is it you spell your last name?"
"B-A-R-R-Y. Why?"
Ho-ly shit.
"Wait, Barry? Barry Johnson?"
His eyes widened. "How do you know that name, who are you?"
"Dude it's me! Landon!"
"Landon?" he paused for a moment, then hit me as hard as he could. "You dumb son of a bitch! You fucking just HAD to not listen to me! And look where it fucking got you! You died you dumb ass!"_

Suddenly I realised things were becoming more serious by the minute. not only was there one, but now there was a confirmed second one! And what was it they said about them dying?

“This just made things a lot more complicated, and delicate.” I mumbled to myself. If I’m going to get things to go smoothly, I need to act soon, and whatever I do, I mustn’t mention who I work for, at least not yet. I decided not to talk to him and tell him my true identity, although I will eventually. I was planning on heading home to my hideout The Hornet’s Nest, but that was about half an hour away, and I needed to keep an eye on the two. So I decided to head over to the local hotel and rent a room, and since I was a member of the wonderbolts, paying wasn’t going to be a problem. I walk into the hotel, which was more busy than I would have expected, and no one really seemed to notice me. I let out a slight sigh of relief. No one went after for my signature, because even though I was a Wonderbolt, I’m only a reserve and handyman; unlike the bigtime Spitfire and Soarin. I walked up to the receptionist and said:

“Excuse me, do you have a room available?”

She replied “Let me check...yes, we have a room available. How long are you planning to stay?”

“A while, how about I just keep renting the room until I don’t need it anymore?”

“You could, but that would be a bit expensive.”

“I can manage the price.”

“Okay, your room is no. 47, on the third floor, here is the key.”

“Thank you. have a nice night.”

As I walked up to and into my room, I kept thinking about the two I saw earlier. Are they really like me? And why are there two of them? I tried to shake the thoughts out of my head as I went to sleep.

As this is my first fic, please excuse me if the first few chapters aren't that great. It gets better and better in quality as the story progresses, so if you have a bit of patience the story will most likely become much better.
PS: I will not be editing these chapters, as they are to remind me of what NOT to write like.