Fuck My Life

The sun had started to go down when Rogue reached the old fortress once again, feeling somewhat safe behind the old stone walls he'd seen hundreds of times before in Skyrim, he pulled his hood down and took a deep breath. "Fuck my life, I may have just made the biggest fuck up so far." Rogue said as he got up onto one of the walls and could see smoke rising from over the tree tops on the other side of the forest, he then looked up at the darkening sky remembering that some of the anthros he'd seen could fly. "I should get out of sight." He thought jumping down nearly 10 feet from the wall as he walked over to the armory door and opened it, once he was inside he immediately noticed that someone had been there after he left a few hours ago. The old rotted furniture had been broken down into fire wood, a queen sized bed was up against the wall by the window, one of those folding screen that people used to change clothes was by the bed and an old fashioned copper bath tub was in the middle of the room, he had been so caught up in the sights that he hadn't even noticed the black crystals covering the broken stain glass window. "Suddenly I feel like I'm in someone's bedroom." Rogue said in a low voice almost a whisper as he backed up to the door but was stopped when he felt cold sharp metal against the back of his neck, so he slowly raised his hands.

"You have some nerve just walking in here, human." A female voice said from behind him.

Rogue mustered his courage and spoke clearly. "Well in my defense, when I was here a few hours ago this place was still abandoned."

The mare behind him walked around keeping her sword at his neck as she came around to face him leaving a scratch along one side of his neck, the mare had dark grey fur a long black main and tail red slitted eyes a curved red horn on her head and was wearing a set of silver metal armor with a red cape. "You seem to possess truly great power and potential, it would be a waste to kill you, now tell me who are you?" The dark mare asked.

Feeling like he had no way out Rogue spoke again. "Rogue Winters." He said quickly as the mare looked him dead in the eye.

"Well Mr. Winters I may have a use for someone of your power." The mare said taking her sword from Rogue's throat as black crystals trapped his legs up to the knee. "You see a few years ago my brother Sombra was killed and I'm now seeking revenge on the ones directly responsible for his death, and your going to help me weather you want to or not." The mare said cupping Rogue's face with her free hand. "And if you do well, you'll get a special reward." The mare said sheaving her sword and grabbing Rogue's right wrist forming black crystals like a bracelet around his wrist as the crystals holding his legs shattered. "Before I send you on the mission I have in mind, there are things I will need to teach you, now follow me." The mare said walking over to the door.

"I'm I at least going to get your name, so I know what to call you?" Rogue asked trying to remove the black crystals from around his wrist.

"My name is Umbra, but feel free to call me Master or my Queen." Umbra said opening the door and Rogue was left with no choice but to follow.

Later that night.

It was the middle of the night in Ponyville and Rogue was crouched next to the chimney of a house looking at Twilight's castle. "I can't believe I have to do this." Rogue said as he harnessed the elemental power of shadow and used the shadow step to enter the shadows and traveled from one shadow to another getting closer to the crystal tree castle remembering what Umbra had told him.

Flashback

"Good, now that you can use the shadow step reliably, I need you to go back to Ponyville and steal something for me." Umbra said looking at Rogue who was halfway to passing out from Umbra's brutal training.

"Fine... so long as you get this thing off me." Rogue said raising his right arm showing the black crystals on his wrist.

"Of course, I may be evil but I'm not a complete bitch, besides it would be inconvenient for me if I let that kill you only to need you in the future." Umbra said and Rogue felt that she was telling the truth, since she didn't have any reason to lie about effectively enslaving him again in the future.

"Ok, so what am I looking for and who has it?" Rogue asked crossing his arms.

Umbra smirked and said. "I want you to steal the Alicorn amulet from Princess Twilight Sparkle's castle and bring it back to me." Umbra said as she watched with delight as Rogue realized he had to go back to the town that he nearly destroyed.

Present time.

Rogue stepped out of a shadow and looked up at the ridiculous abomination of a castle. "How anyone can stand living in that thing is beyond me." Rogue thought as he jumped from the street to one of the balconies that had a glass door left open and slipped inside as silently as a ghost in the night, looking left then right he could see the corridors were empty. "Time to start this shit show." Rogue thought following the corridor right passing a few rooms silently, he stopped by an open door that had light coming from the inside and Rogue used the shadow step again which was a good idea because inside the room Rogue was able to see eight ponies five of whom he recalled seeing earlier that day especially since he'd fought two of them, where as the remaining three were new to him that being an orange one dressed like a cowboy and two taller ones, one white the other blue and he got a really bad shiver down his spine that the two big ones were Princess Celestia and Luna who Umbra had warned him to avoid at all times. Rogue then made his move hoping that no one had seen his shadow moving across the floor due to it still visible when he wasn't in the shadow of something else.

Rogue then searched every room one by one until he found a set of large doors that looked like they belonged in a bank vault. "Those look promising." Rogue thought as he opened them and found that the room beyond was indeed a vault of some kind with magic artifacts on individual pedestals. "Really, no guards in or outside of the vault." Rogue said as he pulled out the piece of paper with the drawing of the amulet and started looking for it. After a few minuets of searching Rogue found the Alicorn amulet and took it placing it into his pocket and quickly left the vault, as he made his way out by following the path he took on the way in he passed the room where everyone had been gathered and he noticed it was now empty and that three fourths of the castle's guards were gone. "The hell, their all gone." Rogue whispered as he stepped into the room and noticed a holographic map on the table that was zoomed in on a forest that had a ruined castle in the center with an old fortress on the far side on the edge of a cliff, Rogue could also see a collection of 6 different marks slowly moving away from the town and he knew the ponies were searching for him and they were going to start at the old castle thinking he'd been there. "Shit, I have to bonce like fucking yesterday." Rogue said running out the room as fast as he could realizing if the ponies got to the fort before him Umbra would disappear and the crystals she put on his wrist would kill him at some point tomorrow, so he ran like a bat out of hell getting out of the castle as quick as he could and then openly running through the silent streets of Ponyville not caring if groups of guards spotted him because with his new found speed they couldn't keep up with him.

It was almost dawn of the next day when Rogue got back to the fort, it'd taken him longer to get back due to the sheer number of guards searching the forest forcing him to go around them rather than raise the alarm. Walking up to the armory door Rogue knocked twice then entered. "Hey Umbra, we have problems." Rogue said as he walked to the sight of Umbra looking in to the lit fire place she then looked at Rogue with rage as she stomped over and slapped him across the face.

"You dare return empty handed." Umbra said furious.

"Fuck you bitch, that's not the problem I was on about." Rogue said with a hand on his cheek. "Those princesses you warned me about are searching the forest, it's only a matter of time before they search this place." Rogue said lowering his hand from his face.

"Did you at least get the amulet?" Umbra asked as she calmed down.

"Yes, now get this shit off me." Rogue said raising his right arm showing the crystals as he pulled out the Alicorn amulet with his left hand, Umbra's horn lit up and the crystal's on Rogue's wrist split off in two pieces hitting the floor with a clink. Rogue then gave Umbra the amulet and turned to leave. "I'm outa here." Rogue said leaving his back open to attack as he took only a single step, Umbra smiled and quickly lunged at Rogue chopping him hard on the back of the neck dropping him to his knees before falling flat on his face out cold from the blow.

"Poor human, I told you I would have more uses for you, and now you'll be a sacrificial lamb so that I can get away without anypony knowing I'm back." Umbra said her horn lighting up again as her things disappeared leaving the room bare as the crystal covering the broken window shattered outwards, Umbra then ran to the window and jumped out turning into a shadow as she escaped leaving Rogue out cold in the fort as a small army of guards came out of the forest led by Celestia, Luna and the main 6.