“Is everything ready Raven claw?” A middle aged Griffon male asked a young griffon who was carrying a crate full of stuff to a large cargo carriage.

Once done he closed the backdoor of the carriage and turned to his boss” Almost done boss, just afew more crates” Raven claw said blankly,the lead Griffon nodded, pleased.

They were in an old, abandoned warehouse, along with them there were eight more Griffons, four who helped with carrying the crates to the carriages and the other four guarding the place, two inside and two on the rooftop. Also two bulky minotaurs to carry the two carriages.

“Come on you worthless sacks of dung, hurry the hay up” the lead Griffon ordered to two of his men that were talking to each other, the two Griffons grumbled and both picked a heavy crate up.

“Oof, Wonder what is inside these that makes them so heavy " the first one said as he picked the crate up.

“Heh, feathers” the second Griffon answered as he too picked a crate up and walked towards the carriage.

The first Griffon looked at he’s friend in confusion and shock as he raised an eyebrow “feathers? Are ya kidding?” He said.

“Nope, its mostly feathers, but what is important is the stuff hidden UNDER the feathers” the second Griffon said as he chuckled " your new in this line of work rooki, you’ll learn soon” he finished.

The rooki just rolled his eyes and continued on doing what he was told.

Minutes passed until there was a knock at the backdoors of the warehouse " i got it” Raven claw said as he stayed in front of the door “identify yourself” he demanded to the one on the other side.

“Avalcha-maghicha” the guy on the other side of the metal door said what was supposed to be their password. Raven opened the locks and the door as he knew it was one of their own.

When the door was fully opened there was another Griffon on the other side, older and taller, in a black jacket and jeans, looking down on Raven claw with a smile, his hands raised in a hug manner “hey little bro, missed me?” he said to Raven who simply looked at his older brother with not so much interest.

“Not much, Eagle claw” he said to his brother with a bit of venom in his voice. Eagle frowned at that and lowered his arms. Since when they were kids, Eagle claw would run with bullies and bad boys of the neighbourhood and when they grew up, he made a bad decision and joined the Griffon cartel which in result they lost their father to a heart stroke. He had a weak heart and the news about his child joining the cruelest criminal group of the world was too much for him. And Raven claw had no other choice but to join them too.

“Come on bro, cheer up, look what I found” Raven looked behind his brother and what he saw made his eyes widen. Standing right behind Eagle claw was a young earth pony mare with yellow coat and green mane and tail dressed in a pink t-shirt and blue jeans. She was blindfolded and couldn’t see anything and was shivering.

Raven looked up at Eagle, asking “what did you do?” The older Griffon looked confused “ahhh, just get in fast” the younger brother said as he opened the door wide enough and stepped aside. Eagle claw grasped the blindfolded mares arm and got her inside. Raven closed and locked the door behind them, not knowing that they were all going to die tonight.....most of them.

Up on the rooftop of the apartment beside the warehouse stood two individuals that we all know.

“So, what do you think chief?” Archer asked Kestrel as he looked at him before he continued " got any plans? "

Kestrel was thinking about a good plan for this, he activated his sonar goggles, seeing everything with heat vision and black and white, he counted twelve individuals inside the warehouse and two on the rooftop, guarding the place. He spotted a door on the rooftop that supposedly leads to the warehouse.

They had to enter the warehouse quietly or else the criminals might hurt the pony mare, he came up with a good plan that might work. “First, we take out those two and then enter the building from that roof-- door over there” he pointed at the roof door as he explained his plan “once we are inside, hunting session begins” he finished explaining.

Archer nodded his head rather mockingly, as he had came up with the same plan “great, so what are we waiting for?” He said as he did the ‘welcom, please enter’ gesture and laughed a little. Kestrel rolled his eyes and prossed to jump on the shorter building, Archer did the same.

They both landed on the rooftop and crouched, Kestrel pointed to the Griffon on the right side of the building, Archer nodded as he made his way towards the Griffon while Kestrel prossed to take out the one on the left.

“Ughhh, i need a vacation” the Griffon on the left yawned. Kestrel was right behind his target, so was Archer. Kestrel brought his right hand up and then turned it into a fist, signaling his Partner.

He rose up from his crouching state and put his hand firmly on the Griffon’s beak who tried to shout but it was all in vain, Kestrel took out his pistol out of its holster and put it on the Griffon’s back. “Spend your vacation in hell” Kestrel growled silently as he pulled the trigger twice, shooting two rounds from his silencered pistol.

The griffon made a silent groan as his eyes widened a second, he hadn’t felt this much pain before and had a hard time registering what have just happened. His body started to go limp until he finally was nothing but a corpse. First act of murder in a long time of equestria.

Kestrel looked at where Archer was and saw he have done his part as well, as the other Griffon was on the floor, completely motionless, Archer have quietly snapped his neck. Second act of murder.

“Lets go, chief” Archer said through the radio. Kestrel dropped the dead Griffon’s body and made his way towards the roof-door, they both silently entered the warehouse.

When they were in, the warehouse seemed empty and outdated. They descended the stairs more and this time, they had a better look at everything inside the building.

There were afew broken crates and barrels here and there, rusted pipes and all, but what really caught their attention was the people inside, there were twelve individuals as have forseen, 9 Griffons, two tall bull like creatures, that they presumed were minotaurs, and a single pony mare, the one that they were here to save.

The mare was tied to a chair and was shivering in fright. All the criminals were gathered around the mare as a middle aged Griffon, who our heros presumed was the boss was on eye level with her, looking at her with a smirk. “Well, im gonna ask you a question that you are all too familiar with, miss Apple seed,” the lead Griffon said as he bent closer to the mare’s green eyes " did you got the money you borrowed from our boss?” He whispered that part.

“Dont kill that one, his mine”

“Copy that”

They were both in the dark corners of the warehouse, trying to hide themselves and find a good spot to take them all out at the fastest way possible.

“I appreciate what you did tonight, Eagle claw” the leader said, making the ponynapper Griffon smile in pride, “BUT” his smile faded “it was very stupid, what if somepony saw you forcing this mare here? What if you were followed?” The leader said with a glare at the younger Griffon who bent his head low.

While the criminals were arguing, our heros have successfully found a great spot to ambush them. The Amarican was standing at the top of many large crates that have been put there like a tower, his years of training made him good at balancing himself. While the Russian climbed up from a pipe and was by now right above the crowd of criminals, hugging the pipe tight with his left arm and both legs, while he aimed his gun at the crowd bellow.

“Do you have any idea what will sir clawmark do to those who make mistakes like these, huh?” The leader continued to shout at Eagle claw who stayed silent, even at the last moments of his life.

“Ready?”

“Affirmatived”

Archer started taking deep breaths, just like Kestrel, they only had to take out ten, the leader was needed and the mare was not to be harmed. Archer aimed his SC3000 while Kestrel aimed his Five-Seven.

“One”

“I must say your in lots of trouble, you worthless orphan” the leader shouted.

“Hey, you take that back” Raven interfered, taking his older brothers side.

“Two”

“You shut your beak, kid”

‘I’ll make you suffer’ Kestrel though to himself.

“Three” Archer shouted as he jumped down from the crate tower and shot afew rounds of he’s rifle, Kestrel did the same and shot two bullets of he’s handgun and jumped down to tackle the lead Griffon.

The criminals had no time to react as two of their Griffons had holes in their heads and three Griffons were injured. When Archer jumped down from the crate tower the force he’s pony hoovs made caused all the crates to shake and fall down on the criminals, creating a distraction that bought the agents some time.

The screams and shouts of the cartel members filled the room, some in shock some in pain.

Archer rolled on the ground and aimed his weapon at a Griffon that was about to stand up after he was knocked down in the midst of the chaos, the Griffon saw Archer and he’s eyes widened and brought he’s hands or claws or talons, whatever, up in a surrender manner but Archer wasn’t the type who takes prisoners, he opened fire, the bullets piercing the Griffon’s flesh and made him scream before he crashed on the ground, dead.

“G-ge-get o-off of me, h-he-help” the lead Griffon stammered as he stared up at the tall and muscular pony in the strange uniform that have tackled him, the red light of the pony’s strange eye device and seeing half of he’s face that was glaring down at him, made the Griffon leader shiver in terror.

Kestrel glared and brought his hands up and punched the Griffon under him, hard, knocking him unconscious, “i will deal with you soon” Kestrel Growled to the unconscious lead bird, as he stood up.

(A/N: since Kestrel is a Russian, his voice is guff and scrachy, so whenever his talking to his enemies hes voice sounds like his growling, to make them be afraid of him, im not making things up, if you played splinter cell conviction co’op, youl know)

“D-don’t m-move” Kestrel looked over his shoulder to see a wounded griffon with a handcrossbow who had tears coming down he’s eyes as a bullet have pierced through his shoulder. The Griffon didn’t know what it was that they used against him, but if it was dangerous enough to kill three of his friends, he was truly scared for his life, he never saw or heard anypony even talking about killing, yet these two intimidating pony Stallions killed three of his friends without a second thought.

With hesitation the Griffon pulled the trigger of his crossbow, shooting a bolt. Faster than a rabbit Kestrel turned around completely, grabbing his pistol, crouching and shooting a round, dodging the bolt and Killing the Griffon, four down, six to go.

“Ahhhhhhh” there was a roar as one of the minotaurs came out of the crates that have drooped on him. Kestrel looked at where he was and saw the minotaur standing with a glare, the minotaur scoffed and started running towards him with a battle cry. Kestrel holstered his gun and waited for the right moment, then, he dashed towards the upcoming minotaur and when he was close enough he slid under the bulls legs and kicked him in the nuts, causing the big boy to drop on he’s knees, clutching his crotch. Kestrel used this as the opportunity to kill the minotaur, the bull was taller than him for sure, even when he was on on his knees, so Kestrel jumped on his back, grabbed his head with both hands and twisted it to the side. There was a “Snap” as the black minotaur dropped dead.

“A message from Voron” Kestrel said to the dead minotaur. Kestrel looked to where Archer was fighting the other minotaur, and saw that two of the remaining Griffons have got Archers arms while the bull was punching him in the gut.

“Ooof, hehe, is that all you've got you weak piece of shit” Archer laughed as the minotaur punched him again.

“You’ve got a dirty mouth for a pony” the minotaur said, making Archer laugh much to the bull's confusion.

“Ohh, you dont know a damn thing about us, chief” Archer laughed mockingly. As the light brown minotaur was about to punch him again, he was suddenly stopped as he felt a sticky liquid splash on his face. He coughed a bit as some of it had got in his mouth, he put he’s hands on his face and looked at it “wha-what the?!” He looked at the two Griffons that were supposed to hold the pony in strange uniform in place and saw blood coming out of a hole that was on their heads.

They both crashed on the ground giving Archer the freedom he needed. Archer jumped and kneed the minotaur on his jaw, knocking afew teeth out. The bull backed away and Archer jumped on his chest, brought out he’s knife and slashed it at the big guy’s throat.

"From Amarica with love, Asshole" Archer said as the minotaur gurgled on his own blood and tried to cover the wound, Archer kicked him in the chest, making him crash on the ground, dead. Archer looked at where kestrel was and saw him looking at him with his armes crossed. “What? Everybody makes mistakes sometimes ” he argued, Kestrel rolled his eyes beneath his mask.

As they both stayed there at the center of the bloodshed, a whimper caught their attention. They both looked and saw the mare on the chair looking at them with wide eyes. When their eyes dropped on her she did a silent scream from the gag that was on her muzzle and cried, tears coming down her green eyes, squirming to try and free herself.

The sight made The agents hate themselves a little bit, they both approached the tied up mare much to her discomfort. Archer put a hand on her shoulder to calm Her down. “Easy, easy ma’am, were not going to hurt you” he got the gag out of her muzzle “just take some deep breaths, relax, were not here to hurt you” he assured her. This somehow made the mare calm down a bit, as she stared up at the stallion with the green lighted thingy on his left eye.

“You are safe now miss, we are here to save you” she turned to Kestrel and shivered a bit, his voice was more rough than calming. Archer looked at Kestrel and waved his hand in a “Stop” manner.

Kestrel just stood there, letting Archer do all the work. “Ughhh” Kestrel turned to the source of the groan and saw the lead Griffon slowly waking up, this brought a light smirk to the Russian agents pony muzzle.

“About time your awake” Kestrel’s voice brought the Griffon to all his senses, as he looked up at him in alarm. Upon seeing the mysterious, terrifying stallion standing not too far from him, the leader looked around himself and saw that all of his men were on the floor motionless with blood all around. The griffon crawled away as he saw Kestrel slowly coming towards him.

The griffon slowly stood up and brought his claw-hands up in a vain attempt to defend himself “D-don’t come a-any closer” he stammered as he felt a wall behind him. When Kestrel was close enough the Griffon threw a punch, but Kestrel quickly ducked under the punch and grabbed the Griffon by his throat, squeezing hard, pushing him on the wall.

“Okay criminal dog, time for a walk” Kestrel growled as he was in the Griffon’s face. “What were you and your thugs doing here? Tell me” Kestrel asked, coldly.

The Griffon just looked at him with a fake glare to make himself look like he wasn’t scared. “B-buck you, i-im not telling you anything” he gasped as Kestrel squeezed harder.

Kestrel just glared harder beneath his mask and goggle “Wrong answer” he growled. He then punched the Griffon,a hook to the right then left then headbutted him, breaking his beak. “Now tell me, what were you doing here? Who are you working for?” Kestrel asked again.

“Aghhhh, we were here to (cough) extract a cargo full of drugs out of the city (cough) thats it, i swear” the beaten up Griffon confessed.

This wasn’t enough for Kestrel so he repeated his second question. " Who ordered you?, who are you working for?”

The Griffon shook he’s head “i.i don’t work for anyone, i swear " The Griffon said. Kestrel chuckled coldly and shook his head.

He kicked the Griffon to the side of his ankle and released him, causing the lead Griffon to drop to the ground with a scream of pain, when he was on all fours, Kestrel brought his right hoof up and kicked it at the side of the Griffon’s head, smashing his head against the wall, before picking him from the floor “You want me to rip your tongue out of your mouth? If not, you better answer my question truthfully, сука” he whispered, although he said the last word louder.

“Ahhhhh(cough), okay, okay, i’ll tell you, his name is Clawmark, the leader of the biggest cartel in the world. I wouldn’t mess with him if i was you, even your princesses haven’t (cough)found a way to find and stop him, he is supported by king Grover” the Griffon said.

Kestrel looked back at Archer and the Mare he was trying to calm “why did you kidnapped her?” Kestrel asked the Griffon who looked at the mare.

“She, she borrowed some bits from us long ago and we(cough) have warned her to bring us back our money, but she wouldn’t, so we wanted to take what we wanted in another way” Kestrel gritted he’s teeth and squeezed the lead Griffon’s neck hard enough to choke him to death. Finally the lead Griffon’s eyes started closing as he’s body went limp, Kestrel dropped the corpse to the floor.

Kestrel took afew deep breaths before addressing hes partner “Okay, Archer lets Leav-” Kestrel was cut off by someone’s voice who was talking with a speaker, outside.

“THIS PLACE IS SURROUNDED BY THE ROYAL GUARD, EVACUATE THE BUILDING IMIDIATLY”

Archer looked at Kestrel and Kestrel looked at him” shit, we need to leave now” Archer said, Kestrel nodded in response.

“I think she will be safe here, lets go” Kestrel said as he proceed to leave the warehouse the same way they have entered, Archer followed behind. Minutes later the large double doors of the warehouse swung open and a large numbers of the Equestrian royal guard entered.

Author's Note

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