The Mayor Of Canterlot

With a startle, Mark woke up from the sensation of freezing cold water that someone just splashed on his expose chest as he soon realized he was tied to a chair in nothing but his black boxers as 3 masked ponies, of each equine tribe were in front of him, one of his captors was holding an now empty bucket of water, as all of them laugh at his reaction.

"Wake up primate! You don't want to miss this." The pegasus pony with the bucket orders him as he tosses the item away.

Catching his breath he looked around the place with a critical eye. Finding only darkness and the shapes of what he could only assume were iron bars and rocked walls, he recognized their pattern as the castle dungeon.

‘So I'm still in the castle, and by the lack of growls and feral mares desperately trying to break inside means they manage to incapacitate the place in a swift move. Can't know for sure how long it has been but they seem competent enough, better be careful.’ Ending his analysis, he looks back at his kidnapers.

"Who are you? And what do you want?" Mark asks with neutrality, standing straight and looking directly into the eyes of the closest pony.

"What is the matter mister mayor?" The pegasus asks, removing his mask showing a light gray stallion with dark blue hair and a scar in the shape of a lighting bolt under his left milky eye. "Don't you recognize me?"

"Thunder Bets." He replied without skipping a beat and a small scowl, "The most infamous bet dealer of Cloudsdale. Still sore I demand your arrest after you were caught dealing with illegal bets on minor racers?"

His smirk vanishes and he adopts a more angry scowl, "That law was bull crap and you know it! Everyday snot cover brats compete to see which one will be the next Wonderbolt. What’s so wrong about betting which colt or filly will win a race?! We do it all the time with the ACTUAL Wonderbolts!" He bellows his argument.

"Say whatever you want Bets, allow gambling and bets into kid competitions, just rob them of the chance of having fun and worse, awake a very ugly monster in every parent, wanting only to win." He defends maintaining his cool as he admires the others.

"Let me guess, you two are also low live scums throwing a tantrum because I say no?"

"Oh I'm gonna enjoy this so much." The earth pony takes off his mask revealing a cream yellow fur and brown mane as he clenches his fist, making the human realize he was the bulkiest of the 3.

"You should have looked the other way, simian." The unicorn tells him showing a light red fur and white mane face with a scar on his left cheek. "You might have lived longer if you had."

"Ah yes, Bad Crow and Yellow Devil. The most wanted merchant on forbidding and dangerous spells and cursed items in the black market," glares at the unicorn before turning to the earth pony, "And the king of the scums cartel that have been trying to sneak their filth into Canterlot for years, the two mayors pains in my ass. My mistake then, low life at least I can pity, dirt bags like you are as worthy as a bag of manure." Yellow Devil deck him full on the face for the comment with such force he spit some blood.

Recovering, he licks his lower lip before staring at his captors again. "I'm sorry, did I hit a nerve?" Devil was about to punch him again until a light blue aura grab his fist in mid air.

"Hold on!" Looking back the ponies saw someone descending and Mark’s eyes widened slowly before turning into a scowl as he saw Silver Tongue dressed in his finest blue stripe suit casually descending the stairs as he smirked at Mark. "There will be time for games later. For now..." He kept advancing until he was face to face with Mark while keeping his hands behind his back and releasing Devil from his hold "...I want him fully aware of what is going to happen. Hello Mr. Mayor."

"Silver Tongue, or should I say your real name and call you Snake Eye Bill?" Mark replies with venom on his voice as he kept glaring at the smirking unicorn who only raised an eyebrow.

"Funny you don't seem to be all that surprise to see me."

"I had my doubts since the start. A Celestia´s graduate as narcissistic and manipulative as you wouldn't die that easily. But even so I had hoped you truly changed, instead of going to these extremes just to hurt me. Faking your death, slander my name, torching my home, kidnapping my friend. I gave an eulogy on your name for pete sake!"

"And it keeps getting funnier each time I hear it!" He laughs alongside his goons.

"All of this? All this convoluted plan, just to make me look bad? Pathetic."

Silver stopped laughing immediately and grab his face with one hand before yanking it forward, "Don't get ahead of yourself ape, I'm gonna do a lot more than just slander your name." He let go of his face, "And come on Mayor, aren't you even a little bit happy that I'm not dead after all?" He rolls his eyes and smirks into the air, "That more than I can say about your precious little pet secretary."

"Drusy!" His eyes widen in horror as he starts to tremble in his chair. "What did you do to her!? You bastard!"

They all laugh at his response rather than answer until Yellow replies, "Aww, the primate miss his pet bat? Ye bet that hit a nerve."

"Let's just say, she took a dive with her wings clipped." Crow replied with a malevolent smirk, freezing the mayor as he slowly looked down.

"No….." He whispers with a trembling voice.

"Awww, c’mon on mayor," Thunder grabbed his hair and forced him to look up, "it's too soon to break into tears, we are just getting started." He then showed him a series of photos that shocked him for a second time. "Do you like them? I dabble in photography as a hobby and always try to find the right angle, so I think I manage to capture your good side, but don't let that stop you, tell me if you have any notes.''

In horror Mark could see not only the picture he took of him holding Celestia, but also a series of compromising photos of him from the back dropping a pill in a drink before Twilight could grab it. He is holding Twilight bra with his teeth while she looks defenseless under him, as it looks like it was choking Luna, and the worse, one of him grabbing Celestia hair and forcing her mouth open, all of them minus the first one showing him almost naked.

"What have you done? The princesses..."

"Knocked out cold, thanks to our special friend." Silver replied showing the same weapon that rendered him unconscious, "Do you like it? It has a special formula acquired by Mr. Crow. Design to put an Ursa Major to sleep. Not even those bitches could resist a full frontal attack of this."

"Bill, you have gone too far, incapacitating them is beyond cowardess, but this?! Stripping them, manufacturing these poses as we were puppets?! Leaving them defenseless?! Dear god the sky must be chaotic right now! This...this is beyond repulsive! This is down right assault!"

"It sure is, and all the blame is gonna fall on you." He poke his nose as his grunts laugh.

"What?"

"Since you are about to die anyway, I suppose I could share the rest of my plan." He stood back as Yellow Devil put on two brass knuckles while the others started to leave the cell. "Like I said, this is more than mere revenge monkey, oh no. I'm gonna make an example of what happens to those that oppose me. Including that albino hag and her peers that dared remove me from office and toss me into this cell to rot. Canterlot was perfect the way it was before you showed up and ruined EVERYTHING! Everypony knew their place and respected the hierarchy of class, but nooooo, you had to complain and keep demanding nonsense!"

"This is between you and me Bill! Leave the princesses alone!"

"And lose my chance at indulging myself?" He laughed and shook his head. "Not gonna happen. That bitch fucked with me and made me a laughing stock! This time I return the favor."

Mark was at a loss of words by that revelation as he took out a remote and turned on 3 screens at the side of the prison showing the princess all tied up and naked. Luna sitting in the throne, Twilight hanging by a rope in the middle of the royal library and Celestia laying on her own bed tied by her ankles and wrist against the polls, all of them seemly wearing a strange golden necklace with a green emerald on them.

"The gas wasn't the only thing we brought, do you like that little trinket we placed on them? Hmm?" He points at say jewelry, "It makes the victim remember events as we want too."

Yellow grabs him by the hair once again and shakes his head a little, "And while they go have some fun with the royals I'm gonna take my time beating the life out of you with my own two hands, all while you hear them bein’ raped, convince that it was YOU who decided to mount them like a wild animal. With plenty of evidence to back that claim."

"You are gonna be remembered as the mindless beast I always knew you were, and once everything is over, since I can't run for mayor anymore, thanks to you and that bitch. I will find a fitting replacement. A unicorn that knows the true values of Canterlot that would release everyone from your brainwash and put back things like they used to be.” Bill tells with a scowl before closing the cell.

"Bill." Without blinking Mark could only stare at him as Yellow kept holding his head up "When I get out of here...I'm gonna make you swallow your own genitals." He ominously promises with a calm voice unsettling the earth pony a little.

The unicorn didn't seem unfazed whatsoever as he only laughed. "Fitting for that to be your last words. Just a bunch of nonsense and empty promises. Goodbye Mayor, enjoy the show. It will be the last thing you do." And with that he retires with the other two leaving the mayor alone with Yellow Devil who cracks his knuckles.

"Oh I know I should wait until the show starts but well..." He readies his fist into the air, "...I never was the patient type." He deliver a strong jab at the side of his face making him spit blood before hitting his other side with the other arm and then start a slow flow of a punch after punch slowly soaking his fist in the mayor's blood as he laughs. "Come on, let's hear some screams too! Try to call for help. The entire castle is asleep, nopony is gonna...WHAT THE...?!" The earth pony stops when the body of the mayor starts to smoke and soon his injuries start to heal at a decent pace, even going as far as regrowing lost teeth and detaching the broken ones for new ones.

Spitting blood and teeth, Mark looks up at his attacker. "Figures a block head like you never opens a history book. The dome surrounding the castle is more than a wall dumbass! There is a series of astral lawyers and enchantments forming the bubble, including an advanced and complex healing spell. Order and casted by Celestia herself after the tragic alpha brawl of the 86 B.N." He laughs briefly. "You can punch all you want. I will not die."

Devil clench his fist in anger before smiling again. "Good, then that means I get to enjoy this even more! Let's see your gracious bubble heal you after I rip your head off!"

"It will you moron, unless it is instantaneous, all wounds will..." Devil doesn't let him finish as he resumes his beatdown. The room is filled with the sounds of his bones starting to crack and the wet hits of Devils blows as the Mayor could only close his eyes trying to ignore the pain, escaping into his mind, remembering something a friend of his past told him once.

Standing in a prestigious throne room with pools at the left and right side of the room. Mark stares at a massive cobra-like creature sitting in front of him. "Heard you manage to pass the test." The cobra tells with an imposing, booming yet calm and serene female tone.

"I did your highness." A younger Mark replies beaming with pride and pointing at his chest. "Told you I could do it, you are seeing a hex master right here."

The room shake by her own laughter as she slowly descend toward him, "Oh child, seeing your adorable naivety always makes me laugh and warms my heart, true I can no longer consider you unfit to wield our gift." She demonstrate lifting her torso and show a huge arrange of all types of hexes shining in the rainbow color as she serpents around him. "You certainly have earned my respect, my intrigue and my forgiveness from doubting you. An aspiring hex practitioner of the hex art right before my eyes. But a hex master?" She stops and points up for dramatics. "That is yet to be obtain."

"Then that would be my next step, come on Queen Vibra, put me to the test I'm ready!"

She laughed more calmly this time and lowered her head. "Patience little child, the time for that will come once the final candle burns down." She pokes his chest in a playful manner, "But I can tell you this."

Returning to reality, with a clenching fist, Mark’s skin slowly starts to turn white as black curve lines resembling the roots or branches of a tree on his arms start to appear and spread around him, in his mind the memory of queen Vibra kept talking. "The moment, your final hex manifests..." Opening his now complete blue eyes, Mark breaks the ropes bounding his wrist and catches the fist of Demon with his palm.

The stallion can only have a second of shock before Mark squish his fist so hard that he not only manage to bend and break the brass knuckles, it impale the steel into the pony flesh, crushing four of his fingers and as a result, causing him indescribable pain and agony as he is forced to kneel while holding his wrist. "...I would pray for your enemies. For they have no idea the type of dragon they would be poking if provoked."

‘Ah come on Queen Vibra, you know me. Few things could make me angry. I don't think there is anything that could get me THAT angry.’

"What was that you said earlier? Oh yeah..." Smirking Mark brings Devil up close to his face "I'm gonna enjoy this." Lifting his fist Mark punches him in the chest so hard that the pony is sent flying backwards destroying the jail cell and breaking the wall in front of them landing in a pile of rubber. The rumble is heard throughout the castle as Silver, Crow and Thunder look back at the dungeon and smirk.

"I knew Devil couldn't wait, we better hurry, or he might kill him before we had a chance to give him a show." Thunder comments

"Come on gentle stallions, why the rush?" Silver mentions with a calm smile, "Trust me, the dome would make sure we had plenty of time, as long as it active that ape would be more than a little hard to kill. We can take things nice and slow. Let’s give poor Devil a chance to have some fun."

The others smirk with malice and agree. "You’re right, and besides, I have been meaning to 'borrow' some books from the royal library for a while. Bet I can fetch a nice deal for one of Celestia's forbidden tomes." Bad Crow tells in excitement.

"Suit yourself, I gonna take a peek at the royal vault and see if they have a crown and maybe a scepter that I could wear while I force that Lunar witch to lick my balls" Thunder comments. "I always have been a sucker for role play and always wanted to get the, "royal treatment". He laughs at his own joke before getting serious, "But don't you think this means you’re off the hook either Snake." All of the sudden Bill is lifted into the air by crow as Thunder place a dagger against his neck, "You still owns us a lot of money."

"Please, please gentle stallions, no reason for that." He slowly push the dagger away, "I'm more than aware how I’m in debt with all of you, that is why I wanted to propose something of equal value."

The exchange glances before letting him go. "We are listening." Crow and Thunder cross their arms awaiting for his idea as he cleans himself up and stands up.

"The civil archives, the room where all crimes in all of Equestria are stored, I know where all of that is register and catalog. Evidence collected and ready to be used in court against you if you by chance were to get caught. All of that burns to ashes." He smirks at them as they consider it "Everything any judge would need to build any sort of case against you, I get rid of that and you can start with a clean slate. Any court would have no choice but release you by lack of evidence. What do you say? Enough to clear my debt?"

They glare at him for a couple of moments before resuming their march to their respective objectives. "It will do...for now." Thunder finally speaks.

"As long as you deliver Snake, double cross, fail, or try to run and we will go after your legs." Crow warns him as they both leave. The crook only gulped knowing both of them had the means to achieve just that. Slightly scared he sped his march into the archives fully intent on destroying all the evidence concerning them.

The healing spell gets to work in Yellow Devil re-adjusting his bones and putting his arm back into place yet he screams in pain and holds his hand when he notices the brace knuckles have now merged into his flesh causing him more pain and freezing his hand into a fist.

"See?" Glaring Devil watches as the human calmly walks out of the cell taking out a piece of metal with it. "Now THAT is how you exploit being on a healing dome. But don't worry, I will gladly take that metal out."

"You freak of nature, so the rumors were true then. You really are unnaturally strong despite being so small."

"Oh I'm more than that, dirt bag." He hit one of his fists into his open palm with such force it creates a small wave of sound, "As you and the rest of your friends would soon learn." His hair turns gray and a white astral energy surrounds all of his body as the curve lines in his arms turn a neon green. "Don't mess with the mayor."